Christopher Guiterman

His research explores the effects of climate change on forest dynamics, the drivers of forest disturbance regimes, and the interactions among these processes and human activities. He specializes in the use of dendrochronology to reconstruct historical fire regimes, climate variability, tree recruitment dynamics, and insect defoliation outbreaks. Chris is a member of the NOAA-based World Data Service for Paleoclimatology that manages and publicly disseminates 18 paleoenvironmental data types from across the globe. He is also a co-lead on the North American Fire Scar Network, the largest collection of tree-ring based fire history datasets, including over 2,500 sites with more than 36,000 trees spanning the North American continent. Much of Chris's research has been use-inspired, aiming to benefit stakeholders, including resource managers on Native American Nations, while progressing scientific understanding.