THOMAS W. SWETNAM REGENTS PROFESSOR OF DENDROCHRONOLOGY, EMERITUS
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TV & Radio:
Regents' Professor induction video: a short bio of my research & teaching produced by UA in 2014, ~6min
Australian Broadcasting Company, Catalyst film "Earth on Fire" June 3, 2014 ~1hr
Years of Living Dangerously -- Fireline episode, Showtime, with Arnold Schwartzenegger, 2014
Tree Rings Tell Tales Of Ancient Fires And Climate, Talk of the Nation with Ira Flatow, PBS KUNM, August 24, 2012
Desert Speaks, KUAT, episodes on wildfires, giant sequoias, and bristlecones. A short clip from the Medieval Drought in the Southwest is linked below. This sequence was shot in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
And here is a short clip from a walk near the Schulman Grove of ancient bristlecone pines from Desert Speaks
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center: Predicting Fire Patterns 13 minutes
Tour of Tree-Ring Lab Storeroom, and discussion of Lab’s history, and recent gift to LTRR YouTube 7 minutes
CBS 60 Minutes, October 21 and December 30, 2007 “The Age of Mega-Fires”, includes interview of Tom Swetnam by Scott Pelley in the Tree-Ring Lab and in Santa Catalina Mtns
PBS National Public Radio, July 21, 2007 “Hotter, Drier Climate Moves up Sky Islands’ Slopes”, by Ted Robbins (written article and audio interview)
ABC Radio Nation (Australia) The Science Show, May 2007, “Tree Rings”,with Robyn Williams (interview transcript)
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
New York Times, Sept. 21, 2015 "As Fires Grows a New Landscape Appears in the West" by John Schwartz
Tucson Daily Star article, Jan 11, 2015 "Researcher used fire to illuminate history of the Southwest", by Tom Beal,
New York Times article on forest global dieback concerns, October 2011
National Geographic Magazine, February 2008, “Drying of the West” by Robert Kunzig
New York Times, March 27, 2007 “Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert” by Timothy Egan
Scientific American, December 26, 2006 “Warmer Atlantic, Climate Change Presage More and Worse, Western Wildfires”, by David Biello
Discover Magazine, June 25, 2006 “Fire in the Sky: Why America’s Ecological Treasures Just Need to Burn”, by Jeff Wheelwright
High Country News, January 24, 2005, “Written in the Rings Tree rings reveal the climate of the past — and help foretell the future. Their message? Get ready for hot, dry times”, by Michelle Nijhuis
Time Magazine, August 16, 2004 “Why the West is Burning”, by Madeleine Nash
Time Magazine, August 18, 2003 “Fireproofing the Forests”, by Madeleine Nash
BioScience, May 2000, “Reading between the lines: Dendrochronologists find that the past is still present in tree rings” by Scott Norris
New York Times, May 11, 1996 “In Sick, Crowded Ponderosa Forests of West, Seeds of Infernos Lie Ominously in Wait”, by George Johnson
New York Times, December 1, 1992, “In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Trees Say Not Yet” by Natalie Angier
New York Times, September 1990, “Science Watch; Fires and Climate”
Affiliated Institutions Links
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
University of Arizona
Collaborators & Former Student Links
Craig Allen, US Geological Survey, retired
Julio Betancourt, US Geological Survey, retired
Chris Baisan, University of Arizona
David Bowman, University of Tasmania
Peter Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research
Erica Bigio, University of Nevada
Susan Conard, US Forest Service, retired
Jeff Dean, University of Arizona, retired
Henry Diaz, National Oceanic & Atmo. Admin., retired
Don Falk, University of Arizona
Pete Fule, Northern Arizona University
Calvin Farris, National Park Service
Henri Grissino-Mayer, retired
Chris Guiterman, National Oceanic and Atmo. Admin., CIRES
Paul Hessburg, US Forest Service
Malcolm Hughes, University of Arizona, retired
Jose Iniquez, US Forest Servic
e
Mark Kaib, U.S. Fish & Wildlife, retired
Jon Keeley, US Geological Survey
Kurt Kipfmueller, University of Minnesota
Thomas Kitzberger, Universidad Nat. del Comahue, Argentina
Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University
Kieth Lombardo, National Park Service
Ann Lynch, US Forest Service, retired
Alison Macalady, National Academy of Sciences
Ellis Margolis, US Geological Survey
Penny Morgan, University of Idaho, retired
Kiyomi Morino, University of Arizona
Christopher O'Conner, U.S. Forest Service
Matt Rollins, US Forest Service
Chris Roos, Southern Methodist University
Jim Speer, Indiana State University
Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley
Elaine Sutherland, US Forest Service, retired
Tyson Swetnam, University of Arizona
Ramzi Touchan, University of Arizona, retired
A. Leroy Westerling, University of California, Merced
Cathy Whitlock, Montana State University
A. Park Williams, University of California, Los Angeles
Tom Windes, National Park Service, retired
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