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Cathy L. Whitlock
Professor of Earth Sciences

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)

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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