Connie A. Woodhouse - CV

RESEARCH INTERESTS :

My primary interests are related to climate variability and change. The instrumental record of climate is not long enough to provide much information about past climate variability or to assess current climate variations. Paleoclimatic data can be used to determine the range of natural variability that has occurred in the past hundreds to thousands of years and to help guide expectations for future climate. Additionally, an understanding of past climate variability is vital to an understanding of human-induced climate change, since these changes will be superimposed over the natural climate variability.

My research is related to investigations of long-term climate variability from paleoclimatic records, particularly tree rings. Some of my current work focuses on the dendrochronological reconstruction of drought and streamflow in the Great Plains and central Rocky Mountains. It is my hope that a longer record of hydroclimatic variability will be useful to planners in making wise decisions about water resource management and development. I am also quite interested in using paleoclimatic proxy data to investigate patterns of atmospheric circulation and their effects on regional climate variability.

EDUCATION :

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT :

AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS :

• Honorable Mention, Student Paper Competition, Association of American Geographers Climate Specialty Group, 1997
• Andrew E. Douglass Graduate Scholarship, The University of Arizona, Tucson, 1995
• Graduate and Professional Student Council, Travel Award, 1995
• Society of the Sigma Xi, Travel Award, 1993

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS :

GRANTS RECEIVED :

• "Tree-Ring Chronologies from Remnant Collections, Western Colorado." US Geological Survey, 2005, $22,250
• "Riparian Forest Age Structure, Sand Creek Massacre National Historical Site." National Park Service, 2005, $11,000
• "Extended Hydroclimatic Records for the Upper Colorado River Basin and Decision Support." NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments, Western Water Assessment Program, 2004-2005, $29,200
• "Climate and Woodland Expansion in the Western Great Plains, USA." National Science Foundation, BCS - Geography and Regional Science, 2005-2006, $6,000
• "Climate Reconstructions from Tree Rings in the Colorado Front Range." National Research Council Fellowship, Jan. 1997-April 1998, $51,200
• "Expanded and Lengthened Dendroclimatic Reconstructions of Great Plains and Central Rocky Mountains Drought.", National Science Foundation, Co-PI: Peter Brown, May 1998-2001, $304,827
• "A Well-Documented Set of Annual Tree-Ring Chronologies from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank for Dendroclimatic Studies." National Science Foundation, PI: Edward Cook, Aug. 1998-2000, $26,540
• "Temperature Variability since AD 1000 in the Western US from Tree Rings." National Science Foundation, PI: Macolm Hughes, Co-PI: Peter Brown, Sept. 1998-2001, $52,784
• "Collaborative Research: Reconstructions of Drought and Streamflow over the Coterminous United States from Tree Rings, with Extensions into Mexico and Canada." National Science Foundation, PI: Edward Cook, Co-PIs: Upmanu Lall, David Meko, Sept. 2000-2003, $35,647
• "Extended Hydroclimatic Records for the Upper Colorado River Basin." NOAA Office of Global Programs, June 2002-2004, $154,515
• "North American Historical Climate Manuscripts Ditization Project" Climate Database Modernization Program, National Climatic Data Center FY 2002, $15,000
• "A Multiproxy Paleofire Database." NOAA Office of Global Programs, Co-PIs: T. Swetnam, C. Whitlock, E. Heyerdahl, H. Grissino-Mayer, P. Brown, 2003-2005, $93,000
• "Fire History Database." NOAA ESDIM Program, Co-PIs: T. Swetnam, C. Whitlock, E. Heyerdahl, H. Grissino-Mayer, P. Brown, 2003, $82,000
• "Historical Climate Data Catalogue." NOAA ESDIM Program, Co-PI: C. Mock, 2004, $30,000

RECENT PUBLICATIONS :

• Woodhouse, C.A., S.T. Gray, and D.M. Meko, in review. Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River basin. Water Resources Research.
• Woodhouse, C.A. and J.J. Lukas. Accepted. Multi-century tree-ring reconstructions of Colorado streamflow for water resource planning. Climatic Change.
• Woodhouse, C.A., K.E. Kunkel, D.R. Easterling, and E.R. Cook. 2005. The 20th century pluvial in the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, dio:1029/2005GL022413
• Meko, D.M. and C.A. Woodhouse. 2005. Tree-ring footprint of joint hydrologic drought in Sacramento and Upper Colorado River basins, western USA. Journal of Hydrology, 308, 196-213.
• Pielke, R.A., N. Doesken, O. Bliss, T. Green, C. Chaffin, J.D. Salas, C.A. Woodhouse, J.J. Lukas, and K. Wolter. 2005. Drought 2002 in Colorado . An Unprecedented Drought or a Routine Drought? Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), 162, 1455-1479.
• Cook, E.R., C.A. Woodhouse, C.M. Eakin, D.M. Meko, and D.W. Stahle. 2004. Long-term aridity changes in the western United States. Science, 306, 1015-1018.
• Woodhouse, C.A., 2004. A Paleo Perspective on Hydroclimatic Variability in the Western United States. Aquatic Sciences, 66, 346-356.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 2003. A 431-year reconstruction of western Colorado snowpack. Journal of Climate, 16, 1551-1561
• Woodhouse, C.A., J.J. Lukas, and P.M. Brown. 2002. Mid-19^th century Colorado drought. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 83, 1485-1493.
• Jain, S., C.A. Woodhouse, M.P.Hoerling. in press. Multidecadal streamflow regimes in the interior western United States: implications for the vulnerability of water resources. Geophysical Research Letters.
• Woodhouse, C.A. in press. Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability. Lewis, W.M. Jr., Editor, Managing Western Water Resources in an Uncertain Climate, University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
• Woodhouse, C.A. in press. Droughts of the past: implications for the future? In: S. Smith, ed., The Future of the Southern Plains. University of Oklahoma Press.
• Woodhouse, C.A., and Meko, D.M. 2002. Introduction to tree-ring based streamflow reconstructions. Southwest Hydrology 1, 14-15.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 2001. Tree-ring evidence for Great Plains drought. Tree- Ring Research 57, 89-103.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 2001. A tree-ring reconstruction of streamflow for the Colorado Front Range. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37, 561-570.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 2000. Extending hydrologic records with tree rings. Water Resources Impact 2:25-27.
• Woodhouse, C.A., W.S. Gross, J. Keltner, and E.P. Gille. 2000. Distributing Paleoclimatic Data. Earth System Monitor 10:6-7.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 1999. Artificial neural networks and dendroclimatic reconstructions: an example from the Front Range, Colorado, USA. The Holocene 9:521-529.
• Woodhouse, C.A. and J.T. Overpeck. 1999. A 2,000 year paleoclimatic record of drought variability in the central United States. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Preprint Volume, 11-15 January 1999. American Meteorological Society, Boston, pp. 309-312.
• Woodhouse, C.A. and J.T. Overpeck. 1998. 2000 years of drought variability in the central United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 79: 2693-2714.
• Woodhouse, C.A. , J.T. Overpeck, T.R. Karl, and N.B. Guttman. 1998. New database of North American paleodrought. Earth System Monitor 8: 1-6.
• Woodhouse, C.A. and D.M. Meko. 1997. Number of precipitation days reconstructed from southwestern tree rings. Journal of Climate 10:2663-2669.
• Woodhouse, C.A.1997. Tree-ring reconstructions of circulation indices. Climate Research 8:117-127.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 1997. Winter climate and atmospheric circulation patterns in the Sonoran Desert region. International Journal of Climate 17:859-873.

SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS and LECTURES :

• Woodhouse, C.A. 2005. Drought, Tree Rings, and Water Resource Management. 3rd Annual New Mexico Drought Summit, Albuquerque, October 6, 2005.
• Woodhouse, C.A. 2005. Impacts of Drought: Water Resources in the Colorado River Basin. 3rd Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Science Meeting, Durango, CO, September 14-16, 2005.
• Woodhouse, C.A.. R.S. Webb, J.J. Lukas. Droughts, Tree Rings, and Water Resource Management in Colorado Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA) 2005 Conference, Winnipeg, June 5-8, 2005.
• Woodhouse, C.A.. R.S. Webb, J.J. Lukas. Graphical analysis of tree-ring reconstructions of annual streamflow. Planning Workshop to Develop Hydroclimatic Reconstructions for Decision Support in the Colorado River Basin, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, May 4-5, 2005.
• Woodhouse, C.A. International Multiproxy Paleofire Database. Fire History and Climate Synthesis in Western North American workshop, Flagstaff, AZ, April 30-May 3, 2005.
• Mock, C.J., M. Hartman, C.A. Woodhouse, A historical data catalogue. Association of Americal Geographers, annual meeting, Denver CO, April 5-9.
• Woodhouse, C.A.. R.S. Webb, J.J. Lukas. An Updated and Expanded Tree-Ring Network for Hydroclimatic Reconstructions in Colorado. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver CO, April 5-8, 2005.
• Woodhouse, C.A., M.K. Hughes, and P.M.Brown. A 668-year temperature reconstruction for the central Rocky Mountains, USA. Inter-America Institute of Global Change Research, Akumal, Mexico, March 28-31, 2005.
• Woodhouse, C.A. Paleoclimatic science in planning and decision making. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 2004. PP52A-07
• Woodhouse, C.A. Tree-ring analysis of winter climate variability and ENSO in California. Workshop on Historical Reconstructions of Climate Variability and Change in Mediterranean Regions. Bologna, Italy, Oct. 5-6, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A. Tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow in the upper Colorado River basin. Colorado Water Workshop, Western State College, Gunnison, CO, July 28-30, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A. Climate conditions during the Lewis and Clark Expedition as reconstructed from tree-ring data. The Nature of Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains Symposium, Nebraska City, NE, June 3-5, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A., Tree-ring evidence for late Holocene drought on the western Great Plains periphery. American Quaternary Association 18th Biennial Meeting, Lawrence KS, June 26-28, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A. What can paleoclimate tell us about possible future changes in droughts and floods? Workshop on Climate Change and Water Utilities, NCAR, Boulder, March 15-16, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A. Application of Paleoclimatic Data to Drought Assessments. Workshop on Improving the Application of Science in Western Drought Management & Planning, Western Governor's Association, U.S. Geological Survey, International Boundary Water Commission, Tempe, March 11-12, 2004
• Woodhouse, C.A., R.S. Webb, and J.J. Lukas. Applied Dendrochronology and Colorado Water Resource Management. Tree Rings and Climate: Sharpening the Focus. University of Arizona, Tucson, April 6-9, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A. and R.S. Webb. 2004. Paleodrought reconstructions to planning. 84^th American Meteorological Meeting, Seattle, Jan. 11-15, 2004.
• Woodhouse, C.A., and J.J. Lukas.. Does the 2002 Tree Ring Reflect Low Flow Values in the Upper Colorado River Basin? American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 8-12, 2003.
• Woodhouse, C.A. A paleo perspective on hydroclimatic variability in the western United States. Aquatic Resources in Arid Lands Conference. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM., April 30-May 2, 2003.
• Woodhouse, C.A. Evidence of past drought in Colorado from tree rings," Lecture series on Colorado Drought, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver CO, April 2003.
• Woodhouse, C.A. Using tree rings to reconstruct records of past drought in Colorado, Colorado Water Law conference, Denver CO, March 2003.

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