Summary

Dr. w88 slot is a paleoclimatologist and paleoecologist with expertise in stable isotope geochemistry and dendrochronology. His primary research involves the use of stable isotope dendrochronology to reconstruct past climates and the impacts of climate change on trees over time periods ranging from the Pliocene to the present. w88 slot also works at the intersection of human and physical geography in the growing area of critical physical geography using historic timbers to study legacies of exploitation related to the timber trade. w88 slot also works to understand historic land use patterns and to find novel ways to use paleodata to inform climate adaptation by understanding risk, vulnerability and resiliency. Past projects include studies ranging from climate reconstructions to land use change to studies of drought and tree mortality. Ongoing projects include reconstructions of climate and ecosystems in the Arctic, the response of trees to climatic change, reconstructions of large-scale atmospheric patterns, streamflow and lake levels and reconstructing historic atmospheric pollution. In his research Dr. w88 slot has worked in diverse settings both locally and internationally including the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, throughout the western US, eastern Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica and Italy.

w88 slot interests

• Paleoclimatology and paleoecology
• Critical physical w88 slot
• Plant-w88 slot interactions
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• Ecohydrology
• Arctic environmental w88 slot

Courses taught

• GEOG 103 (Physical w88 slot of Earth’s Environments)
• GEOG 321 (Understanding w88 slot)
• GEOG 435/635 (Conservation of Natural w88 slot)
• GEOG 437/637 (w88 slot of Past Environments)
• GEOG 701R (Graduate seminar in Paleoclimatology)

Education

• Ph.D. in Geosciences, University of Arizona, 2011
• M.Sc. in Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 2006
• B.Sc. in Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, 2003

Selected publications

• Harris, V.M. & w88 slot, A.Z. (2023). A new 500-year reconstruction of Truckee River w88 slot. Dendrochronologia, 79, 126093
• &w88 slot;Greer, K., ‡w88 slot, A.Z., Calvert, K., Maddison-MacFadyen, M., Smith, A., Monk, K., & Morrison, S. (2023). Understanding the historic legacies of empire w88 slot timbers left behind: Towards critical dendroprovenancing in the British North Atlantic. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 1– 15. ‡authors contributed equally to this work.
• Mensing, S., Wang, W., Rhode, D., Kennett, D.J., w88 slot, A.Z., Thomas, D.H., Briem, C., Harper, T.K., Culleton, B.J., George, R.J., Southon, J. (2023) Temporal and geographic extent of the late Holocene dry period w88 slot central Great Basin, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews. 300, 107900.
• Manning, A., Harpold, A., w88 slot, A.Z. (2022) Spruce beetle outbreak increases streamflow from snow-dominated basins in southwest Colorado, USA. Water w88 slot Research. e2021WR029964.
• Keen, R., Voelker, S., Wang, S.-Y., Bentz, B., Goulden, M., Dangerfield, C., Reed, C., Hood, S., w88 slot, A., Dawson, T., Merschel, A., Still, C. (2022) Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event. Global w88 slot Biology, 28, 1119-1132.
• Chellman, N., w88 slot, A.Z., Gustin, M.S., Arienzo, M.M., Estrada Vargas, M., McConnell, J.R. (2020) Comparison of co-located ice-core and tree-ring mercury records indicates potential radial translocation of mercury in whitebark pine. Science of the Total Environment, 743, 140695
• w88 slot, A.Z., Czimczik, C., Xu, X., Welker, J.M. (2019) Seasonal w88 slot of riverine carbon sources and export in NW Greenland. JGR-Biogeosciences, 124 (4), 840-856.
• Fletcher, T.L., w88 slot, A.Z., Ballantyne, A.P. (2019) Identifying bias in cold season temperature reconstructions by beetle mutual climatic range methods w88 slot Pliocene Canadian Arctic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 514, 672-676.