Summary

Dr. Mensing is a biogeographer and paleoecologist. He has extensive experience reconstructing Quaternary environments in the Great Basin and California . His primary research tools are pollen and charcoal analysis and he maintains the w88 casino games palynology laboratory. He also has experience with tree ring analysis and woodrat middens. He enjoys field work and is always anxious to explore new corners in the intermountain west.

About the Fred D. Gibson, Jr. Endowed Professorship in w88 casino games

Fred D. Gibson '51 was an outstanding leader in the U.S. chemical industry for more than 50 years. He was named by the University as Alumnus of the Year in 2010 and received an honorary doctorate from Nevada in 1999. Established: 1999. (College of w88 casino games and Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering)

w88 casino games interests

Reconstructing vegetation and climate change, w88 casino games paleoecology, fire history, the invasion of exotic species, early agriculture.

Courses taught

• Geog 103 Geography w88 casino games World's Environment
• Geog 314 w88 casino games Methods
• Geog 434, 634 Biogeography
• Geog 437, 637 Geography of Past w88 casino games
• Geog 473, 673 Arid Lands
• Geog 701s - Graduate seminar in Biogeography and w88 casino games

Selected Publications

• Crawford, Jeffrey N., w88 casino games, Scott A., Lake, Frank K., Zimmerman, Susan R.H. 2015. Late Holocene fire and vegetation reconstruction from the western Klamath Mountains, California, USA: A multi-disciplinary approach for examining potential human land-use impacts. The w88 casino games, DOI: 10.1177/0959683615584205.
• w88 casino games, S. A., Tunno, I., Sagnotti, L., Florindo, F., Noble, P., Archer, C., Zimmermann, S., Pavón-Carrasco, F., Cifani, G., Passigli, S., Piovesan, G. 2015. 2700 years of Mediterranean environmental change in central Italy: A synthesis of sedimentary and cultural records to interpret past impacts of climate on society . w88 casino games, 116, 72-94.
• Dingemans, Theodore, Scott A. w88 casino games, Sarah J. Feakins, Matthew E. Kirby and Susan H. Zimmerman 2014. 3000 years of environmental change at Zaca Lake, California, USA. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.V2 (article 34) doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00034
• Kennett, Douglas A.; Brendan J Culleton; Jaime Dexter; Scott w88 casino games; David H Thomas. 2014. High Precision AMS 14C Chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada, Journal of Archaeological w88 casino games , 1-12. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.06.008
• w88 casino games, S., Sharpe, S., Tunno, I., Sada, D., Thomas, J., Starratt, S., Smith, J. 2013.The Late Holocene Dry Period: Multiproxy evidence for an extended drought between 2800 and 1850 cal yr BP across the central Great Basin, USA. w88 casino games 78, 266-282.
• w88 casino games, S. A., Korfmacher, J., Minkley, T., Musselman, R. 2011. A 15,000 year record of vegetation and climate change from a treeline lake in the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA, The w88 casino games, doi:10.1177/0959683611430339.

Education

Ph.D., Geography, w88 casino games, Berkeley, 1993
M.A., Geography, w88 casino games, Berkeley, 1988
B.A., Landscape Architecture, w88 casino games, Berkeley, 1977