Thomas W. Swetnam

Thomas W. Swetnam (born 1955) is a Professor of Dendrochronology and the Director of the [http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/| Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research] at the [http://www.arizona.edu//| University of Arizona] , studying disturbances of forest ecosystems across broad temporal and spatial scales.

Education, Academic and Service Activities

Swetnam received his bachelor's degree in general biology and chemistry from the University of New Mexico and subsequently received his master's and PhD from the University of Arizona in watershed management and dendrochronology.

He has received the A.E. Douglass award from the University of Arizona, the W.S. Cooper award from the Ecological Society of America (with Julio Betancourt), and the Henry Cowles award from the American Association of Geographers (with James Speer).

He has served on the following advisory and editorial boards:

Board of Trustees, Valles Caldera National Preserve (appointed by President William J. Clinton, 2000-2004); Arizona Forest Health Advisory Council (appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano, 2003-2006); Arizona Climate Change Advisory Group (appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano, 2005-2006); Associate Editor, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 1993-present; Editor, Tree-Ring Research (formerly Tree-Ring Bulletin) 2000-2001; Associate Editor, Ecoscience, 1994-1998; Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 1998; Editorial Board, Ecological Applications, 1998-1999; Associate Editor, Dendrochronlogia, 2005-present

Bibliography

He has authored and co-authored approximately 90 scientific papers in journals and symposium proceedings, including the following most frequently cited or significant papers:
*Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt, 1990. Fire-Southern Oscillation relations in the Southwestern United States. Science 249:1017-1020.
*Swetnam, T. W., 1993. Fire history and climate change in giant sequoia groves. Science. 262:885-889.
*Swetnam, T. W., and A. M. Lynch, 1993. Multi-century, regional-scale patterns of western spruce budworm history. Ecological Monographs 63(4):399-424).
*Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan, 1996. Historical fire regime patterns in the Southwestern United States since AD 1700. In C. Allen, editor, Fire effects in Southwestern Forests, Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March 29-31, 1994. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-286:11-32.
*Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt, 1998. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128-3147.
*Swetnam, T. W., C. D. Allen, and J. L. Betancourt, 1999. Applied historical ecology: Using the past to manage for the future. Ecological Applications 9(4):1189-1206.
*Westerling, A. L., H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, and T. W. Swetnam., 2006. Warming and earlier spring increase western U.S. wildfire activity. Science 313:940-943.
*Kitzberger, T., P. M. Brown, E. K. Heyerdahl, T. W. Swetnam, and T. T. Veblen., 2007. Contingent Pacific-Atlantic ocean influence on multi-century wildfire synchrony over western North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(2):543-548.

Edited books

*Dean, J. S., D. M. Meko, and T. W. Swetnam, eds., 1996. Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity, Proceedings of the International Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 17-21 May, 1994. Radiocarbon, Tucson Arizona. 889 pp.
*T. T. Veblen, W. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T. W. Swetnam, eds., 2003. Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies Vol. 160. Springer, New York. 444 pp.

External links

* [http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~tswetnam/ University homepage]