Education
Swetnam received his bachelor"s degree in biology and chemistry from the University of New Mexico and subsequently received his master"s and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Arizona in watershed management and dendrochronology.
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Thomas Swetnam
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Career
He has served on the following advisory and editorial boards: He has authored and co-authored approximately 90 scientific papers in journals and symposium proceedings, including the following frequently cited/significant papers: Swetnam, T. West. Betancourt, J. L. (1990). "Fire-Southern Oscillation Relations in the Southwestern United States".
Science 249 (4972): 1017-1020. doi:10.1126/science.249.4972.1017. PMID 17789609. Swetnam, T. West. (1993).
"Fire History and Climate Change in Giant Sequoia Groves".
Science 262 (5135): 885–9. doi:10.1126/science.262.5135.885. PMID 17757357. Swetnam, T. West. Lynch, A. M. (1993). "Multicentury, Regional-Scale Patterns of Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks".
Ecological Monographs 63 (4): 399. doi:10.2307/2937153.
JSTOR 2937153. Swetnam, T. West. 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 Louisiana Mesa Fire Symposium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March 29–31, 1994. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-286:11-32.
Swetnam, T. West.; Betancourt, J. L. (1998).
"Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest". Journal of Climate 11 (12): 3128–3147. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3128:MDAERT>2.0.CO;2. Swetnam, T. West.; Allen, C. Doctorate.
Betancourt, J. L. (1999).
"Applied Historical Ecology: Using the Past to Manage for the Future". Ecological Applications 9 (4): 1189–1206. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1999)0092.0.CO;2.
Westerling, L. Hidalgo, G. Cayan, R.
Swetnam, West. (August 2006). "Warming and earlier spring increase western United States. Forest wildfire activity".
Science 313 (5789): 940–943. Bibcode:2006Sci..313.940W. doi:10.1126/science.1128834.
ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16825536.
Kitzberger, T. Brown, P. M. Heyerdahl, East. K. Swetnam, T. West. Veblen, T. T. (2006).
"Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America".
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (2): 543–548. doi:10.1073/pnas.0606078104.
