Media Links

 Interviews & Profiles on
​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 Service
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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