Misc. Links - Thomas W. SwetnamRegents' Professor of Dendrochronology, Emeritus

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Media Links

Videos & 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, 2014

Albuquerque Journal article and videos, "Fascinating Fury", by John Fleck, June 23, 2013

USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, June 2013 "Climate Change impacts of forests and fire hazards" YouTube ~10min

Arizona Public Media produced a short (6 minute) video describing our history and work at the Tree-Ring Lab, and the new Tree-Ring Building.

I gave a short (15 minutes) talk at a symposium in Aspen Colorado (Feb 18, 2011). The symposium was titled: Forests At Risk: Climate Change and the Future of the American West (Al Gore was the keynote speaker).

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

USA Today, February 27, 2006, “Parched New Mexico gets a taste of climate change”, by Pat O’Driscoll

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

PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, October 7, 2003, “Western Drought”, (interview by Ted Robbins, transcript, and link to streaming video)

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