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Faculty and Staff
Cathy L. Whitlock
Professor of Earth Sciences
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Contact Information
Office: Traphagen Hall #117
Phone: (406) 994-6910
Email:
whitlock(AT)montana.edu
Education
B.A. Colorado College, Geology, magna cum laude, 1975
M.S. University of Washington, Geological Sciences , 1979
Ph.D. University of Washington, Geological Sciences, 1983
Paleoecology Lab
Dr.
Whitlock's CV (PDF)
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Current Class Information
ESCI
211 - Yellowstone: A Scientific Laboratory
ESCI
580 - Quaternary Paleoecology & Vegetation History
Research Interests
- Quaternary environmental change
- Vegetation
- Fire
- Climate history of the western U.S. and
southern South America
Current Graduate Students
Virginia
Iglesias
Stephanie
Mumma
Josh Gage
Selected Publications
2005 Shafer, S.H., Bartlein, P.J., and Whitlock, C. Understanding the
spatial heterogeneity of
global environmental change in mountainous regions. Global change and
mountain
regions: an overview of current knowledge (U.M. Huber, H.K.M. Bugmann,
M.A.
Reasoner, eds), pp. 21-31. Kluwer.
2004 Whitlock, C., Land management: Fire,
climate, and landscape response. Nature 432, 28-
29.
2004 Whitlock, C., and Bartlein, P.J.
Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental
change. In Developments in Quaternary Science Volume 1 (A. Gillespie
and S.C. Porter,
eds.). Elsevier, pp. 479-489.
2004 Millspaugh, S.H., Whitlock C. and
Bartlein, P. Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate
history of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau provinces,
Yellowstone National
Park. In After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National
Park (L.
Wallace, ed.), pp. 10-28. Yale University Press.
2004 Whitlock, C., Skinner, C.N., Bartlein,
P.J., Minckley, T.A., and Mohr, J.A. Comparison
of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern
Klamath Mountains
California, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 2110-2121.
2003 Whitlock, C., Shafer, S.H., and Marlon,
J. The role of climate and vegetation change in
shaping past and future fire regimes in the northwestern U.S., and the
implications for
ecosystem management. Forest Ecology and Management 178: 5-21.
2003 Whitlock, C., and Anderson, R.S. Fire
history reconstructions based on sediment records
from lakes and wetlands. In Fire and Climatic Change in the Americas
(T.T. Veblen,
W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T.W. Swetnam, eds.), pp. 3-31.
Ecological Studies, vol.
160. Springer-Verlag, New York.
2003 Pierce, K.L., Despain, D., Whitlock,
C., Cannon, K.P., Meyer, G., and Morgan, L.
Quaternary geology and ecology of the greater Yellowstone area. In
Quaternary Geology
of the United States (D.J. Easterbrook, ed.), INQUA 2003 Field Guide
Volume (Desert
Research Institute, Reno).
2003 Brunelle, A., and Whitlock, C. Holocene
vegetation, fire, and climate history from the
Selway Mountains, Idaho. Quaternary Research 60: 307-318.
2003 Overpeck, J.T., Whitlock, C., and
Huntley, B. Terrestrial biosphere dynamics in the
climate system: past and future. In Paleoclimate, Global Change, and
the Future (K.D.
Alverson, R.S. Bradley and T. Pedersen, eds), pp. 81-103. Springer,
Berlin.
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