ROB WILSON

CURRICULUM VITAE

Affiliated Institution:
School of Geography & Geosciences
University of St Andrews
St
Andrews.
FIFE. Scotland. U.K.
KY16 9AL

WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
FUNDING
PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
HONOURS AND AWARDS
OTHER INFORMATION AND INTERESTS
REFERENCES

E-mail: rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk
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St Andrews Tree-Ring Laboratory

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Last Update: 29/01/2011


WORK EXPERIENCE

2007-present:   Scotland
                        Lecturer in Physical Geography. School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews


2006-present:   Scotland
                        Adjunct Research Fellow with the Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University.


2006-2007:        Scotland
                        Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Geosciences, Grant Institute  Edinburgh University.  
                        Funding from the EU funded project: MILLENNIUM - European climate of the last millennium.
                                 Led by Dr. Danny McCarroll at the University of Swansea.


2004-2005:     Scotland
                        Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Geosciences, Grant Institute, Edinburgh University.


2002-2005:     Scotland
                        Dendrochronological contract/consultancy work with the Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont Doherty
                        Earth Observatory, New York. Projects include:

  • Optimising hemispheric and global temperature reconstructions for the past millennium. Led by Drs. Rosanne D’Arrigo, Gordon Jacoby and Ed Cook. Funded by the NOAA Climate Change Data and Detection program.
  • Response of Pacific Northwest and Alaskan forests to recent multiple environmental changes. Led by Dr. Rosanne D’Arrigo. Funded by the National Institute for Global Environmental Change.
  • Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Asian Monsoon Climate Dynamics. Led by Ed Cook, Drs. Rosanne D’Arrigo, Gordon Jacoby and Brendan Buckley. Funded by the NSF Palaeoclimate Program

2003-2004:     Scotland
                        Research Fellow with the School of Geosciences, Grant Institute, Edinburgh University. Funding
                        from the EU funded project: Simulations, Observations & Palaeoclimatic data: climate variability
                        over the last 500 years " led by Drs. Tim Osborn and Keith Briffa at the University of East
                        Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.


1997-2002:     Canada
                        Teaching assistant at the Geography Department, University of Western Ontario. Courses: "The
                        Natural Environment" , "Statistics: Introduction to Spatial Analysis" and " Quantitative analysis in
                        Geography".


2001:               Canada/Germany
                        Contract dendro-historical dating of buildings in south-west Germany.


1999-2001:     Canada
                        Dendrochronological contract work, studying forest decline in Pennsylvania and New York, for Dr.
                        Brendan Buckley of the Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York
                        and Robert Long and Kevin Smith of the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Delaware.
 


1996-97:         Germany
                        Establishment of "Regensburg Tree-Ring Lab" - Self employed contract work:

  • Ring measurement and chronology development of tree-ring samples from Mongolia, the Kamtchatka Peninsula and northern Russia for Dr. G. Jacoby of the Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York.
  • Ring measurement and chronology development of samples from the Teepookana State Reserve, Tasmania for Dr. B. Buckley of IASOS, University of Tasmania, Australia.
  • Ring measurement, chronology development and climate reconstruction using samples from Chile for Dr. B. Luckman of the University of Western Ontario, Canada.


1994-97:          Germany
                        Geologist for "Baugrund Institut Klein and Winklevoss", Regensburg, Germany.



1994:               Australia
                        Dendrochronology research assistant to Brendan Buckley of IASOS as part of project,
                        "Verification and Extension of a 2,290 year temperature reconstruction: subfossil samples from
                        Lake Vera and Ooze Lake, Tasmania."



1993:               Australia
                        Laboratory technician: Processed and mounted diatom and foraminifer samples for Dr. A. McMinn
                        and Dr. P. Wells of IASOS and Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania



1988-92:         England
                        Part time Instructor/Helper for an Outdoor Pursuit Centre for Disabled People.


EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

2003: Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
                        PhD. in Geography and Environmental Science.

1999: Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
                        M.Sc. in Geography and Environmental Science.

1993: Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies (IASOS), University of Tasmania, Australia.
                        Graduate honours diploma in Antarctic studies.

1992: Department of Geology, Durham University, England.
                        B.Sc. (Honours) Geology.

1989: Sedbergh School, England.
                        A Levels: Geography, Chemistry and Biology.


FUNDING

Principal Investigator:

2010: Royal Society Conference Grants Scheme - TG101322. Participation at WorldDendro 2010. £1500

2010-2012: Leverhulme Trust - F/00 268/BG. “RELiC: Reconstructing 8000 years of Environmental and Landscape change in the Cairngorms”. £249,759

2009: NRCF 1348.1008 - Radiocarbon award. “Reconstructing late Holocene climate from tree rings the potential for a long Scottish Highlands chronology”. £12,480

2008: Royal Society Conference Grants Scheme - CG081272. Participation in 2007 Fall AGU conference. £917

 

Co-Investigator:

2010: NRCF 1438.1009 - Radiocarbon award. “Twentieth century marine radiocarbon reservoir age changes in the coastal ocean”. £5,720

2006-2010: European Community research contract 017008-2 MILLENNIUM. European climate of the last millennium: ‘MILLENNIUM’. € 246,561


PUBLICATIONS
 

Submitted:

Wilson, R, Rydval, M, Paton, H, Frith, A, Loader, N, Mills, C, Crone, A, Edwards, C & Gunnarson, B. Reconstructing Holocene climate from tree rings – the potential for a long chronology from the Scottish Highlands. submitted to The Holocene.

 

Wilson, R. and Bates, R. Lake sonar surveys and the search for sub-fossil wood. Submitted to Dendrochronologia.

 

In press:

 

Published:

Baker, A., Wilson, R., Fairchild, I., Franke, J., Spötl, C.,  and Trouet, V. 2011. High resolution δ18O and δ 13C records of the last millennium climate from an annually laminated Scottish stalagmite. Global and Planetary Change. Available online. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071. [view PDF]

Kiss, A., Wilson, R. and Bariska, I. 2011. An experimental 400-year documentary-based multi proxy (vine and grain) reconstruction of May-July temperatures for Kőszeg, West-Hungary. Journal of Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-010-0367-4. [view PDF]

Villalba, R., Luckman, B. H., Boninsegna, J.A., D'Arrigo, R.D., Lara, A., Villanueva-Diaz, J., Masiokas, M., Argollo, J., Soliz, C., LeQuesne, C., Stahle, D., Roig, F., Aravena, J.C., Wiles, G., Hartsough, P., Wilson, R.J.S., Watson, E., Cook, E.R., Cerano-Paredes, J., Therrell, M. , Cleaveland, M., Morales, M.J., Moya, J., Pacajes, J., Massacchesi, G., Biondi, F., Urrutia, R., and Martinez Pastur, G. Dendroclimatology from regional to continental scales: Understanding regional processes to reconstruct large-scale climatic variations across the Western Americas. In Hughes, M.K., Swetnam, T.W. and Diaz, H.F. (eds.) Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects, Springer. 2011. Book Chapter 7. [view PDF]
 
Wilson, R., Cook, E., D’Arrigo, R., Riedwyl, N., Evans, M., Tudhope, A. and Allan, R. 2010. Reconstructing ENSO: the influence of method, proxy data, climate forcing and teleconnections. Journal of Quaternary Science. 25 (1): 62 – 78.ISSN 0267-8179.
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D Frank, D., J. Esper, E. Zorita, R. Wilson. 2010. A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate: a perspective on high resolution paleoclimatology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 1 (4): 507-516. doi: 10.1002/wcc.53.
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Fish, T., Wilson, R., Edwards, C., Mills, C., Crone, A., Kirchhefer, A.J., Linderholm, L., Loader, N.J. and Woodley, E. 2010. Exploring for senescence signals in native Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris l.) in the Scottish Highlands. Forest Ecology and Management. 260: 321–330.
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Stott, K. J. Austin, W. E. N., Sayer, M. D. J., Weidman, C.R., Cage, A.G. and Wilson, R. J. S. 2010. The potential of Arctica islandica growth records to reconstruct coastal climate in north west Scotland, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 (13-14): 1602-1613.
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Büntgen U, Franke J, Frank D, Wilson R, González-Rouco F, Esper J, 2010: Assessing the spatial signature of European climate reconstructions. Climate Research. 41: 125-130.
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Leijonhufvud L, Wilson R, Moberg A, Söderberg J, Retsö D, Söderlind U. 2010. Five centuries of Stockholm winter/spring temperatures reconstructed from documentary evidence and instrumental observations. Climatic Change. 101 (1-2): 109-141. doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9650-y.
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Dobrovolný P, Moberg A, Brázdil R, Pfister C, Glaser R,  Wilson R, van Engelen A, Limanówka D, Kiss A,  Halíčková M, Macková J, Riemann D, Luterbacher J, Böhm R. 2010. Monthly, seasonal and annual temperature reconstructions for Central Europe derived from documentary evidence and instrumental records since AD 1500. Climatic Change. 101 (1-2): 69-107, doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9724-x. 
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J. Luterbacher, S.J. Koenig, J. Franke, G. van der Schrier, P.M. Della-Marta, J. Jacobeit, M. Küttel,F.J. González-Rouco, E. Zorita, E. Xoplaki, M. Stössel, T. Rutishauser, H. Wanner, C. Pfister, R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, D. Camuffo, C. Bertolin, A. Moberg, L. Leijonhufvud, J. Soderberg, R. Allan, R. Wilson, D. Wheeler, M. Barriendos, R. Glaser, D. Riemann, O. Nordli, D. Limanówka, A. van Engelen, C.S. Zerefos. 2010. Circulation dynamics and its influence on European and Mediterranean January-April climate over the past half millennium: Results and insights from instrumental data, documentary proxy evidence and coupled climate models. Climatic Change 101, 201-234, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9782-0. [view PDF]

 

E. Zorita, A. Moberg, L. Leijonhufvud, R. Wilson, R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, J. Luterbacher, R. Böhm, C. Pfister, R. Glaser, J. Söderberg, F. González-Rouco. 2010. European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary information compared to climate simulations. Climatic Change 101, 143-168, doi: 10.1007/s10584-010-9824-7. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Jacoby, G., Buckley, B., Sakulich, J., Frank, D., Curtis, A., Wilson, R. and Anchukaitis, K. 2009. Tree growth and inferred temperature variability at northern treeline, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada. Global and Planetary Change. 65 (1-2): 71-82. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.011. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R. and Tudhope, A. 2009. Impact of volcanic forcing on tropical temperatures during the last four centuries. Nature GeoScience. Vol 2: DOI: 10.1038/NGEO393. [view PDF]

Büntgen U., Frank D., Wilson R., Carrer, M., Urbinati, C. and Esper J. 2008. A test for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps. Global Change Biology. 14, 2443–2453, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01640.x. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Allan, R., Wilson, R., Palmer, J., Sakulich, J., Smerdon, J., Bijaksana, S. and Ngkoimani, O. 2008. Pacific and Indian Ocean climate signals in a tree-ring record of Java monsoon drought. International Journal of Climatology 28 (4), 1889 – 1901. 10.1002/joc.1679 [view PDF]

N.J.Loader, P.M.Santill, J.P.Woodman-Ralph, J.E. Rolfe, M.A. Hall, M. Gagen, I.Robertson, R.Wilson, C.A. Froyd, D.McCarroll. 2008. Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in SW Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions. Chemical Geology. 252 (1-2), 62-71. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.01.006 [view PDF]

Leijonhufvud L., Wilson, R. and Moberg A. 2008. Documentary data as proxy variables for Stockholm late winter to early spring temperatures in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Holocene. 18 (2): 333–343. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R and Wilson, R. 2008. El Niño and Indian Ocean Influences on Indonesian Drought: Implications for Forecasting Rainfall and Crop Productivity. International Journal of Climatology. 28: 611–616. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R., Liepert, B and Cherubini, P. 2008. On the 'Divergence Problem' in Northern Forests: A Review of the Tree-Ring Evidence and Possible Causes. Global and Planetary Change. 60: 289–305.[view PDF]

Wilson, R., D’Arrigo. R., Buckley, B., Büntgen, U., Esper, J., Frank, D., Luckman, B., Payette, S. Vose, R. and Youngblut, D. 2007. A matter of divergence – tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree-ring data. JGR - Atmospheres. VOL. 112, D17103, doi:10.1029/2006JD008318 [view PDF]

Esper, J., Frank, D.C., Wilson, R.J.S., Büntgen, U. and Treydte, K. 2007. Uniform growth behaviour among central Asian low and high elevation juniper tree sites. Trees. 21, 141–150. DOI 10.1007/s00468-006-0104-0. [view PDF]

Wilson, R., Wiles, G., D'Arrigo, R. and Zweck, C. 2007. Cycles and Shifts: 1300-years of multi-decadal temperature variability in the Gulf of Alaska. Climate Dynamics. 28:425–440. DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0194-9. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R. and Li, J. 2006. Increased Eurasian-tropical temperature amplitude difference in recent centuries: implications for the Asian Monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (22), L22706. 10.1029/2006GL027507 [view PDF]

Wilson, R., Tudhope, A., Brohan, P., Briffa, K., Osborn, T. and Tett, S. 2006. 250-years of reconstructed and modeled tropical temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research. 111, C10007, doi:10.1029/2005JC003188. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R., Palmer, J., Krusic, P., Curtis, A.,  Sakulich, J., Bijaksana, S., Zulaikah, S., La Ode Ngkoimani, and Tudhope, A. 2006. Reconstructed Indonesian Warm Pool SSTs from Tree Rings and Corals: Linkages to Asian Monsoon Drought and ENSO. Paleoceanography, 21 (3) PA300510.1029/2005PA001256. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R. and Wilson, R. On the Asian Expression of the PDO. International Journal of Climatology. 26: 1607–1617. [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R., Palmer, J., Krusic, P., Curtis, A.,  Sakulich, J., Bijaksana, S., Zulaikah, S. and La Ode Ngkoimani. 2006. Monsoon drought over Java, Indonesia during the past two centuries. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L04709, doi:10.1029/2005GL025465.  [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R. and Jacoby, G. 2006. On the long-term context for late 20th century warming. (Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, D03103, doi:10.1029/2005JD006352  [view PDF]

Wilson, R., Frank, D., Topham, J., Nicolussi, K and Esper, J. 2005. Spatial reconstruction of summer temperatures in Central Europe for the last 500 years using annually resolved proxy records: Problems and opportunities. Boreas. 34: 490-497.  [view PDF]

Frank, D., Wilson, R. and Esper, J. 2005. Synchronous variability changes in alpine temperature and tree-ring data over the last two centuries. Boreas. 34: 498?505.   [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R., Panagiotopoulos, F. and Wu, B. 2005. On the long-term interannual variability of the East Asian Winter Monsoon (EAWM). Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L21706, doi:10.1029/2005GL023235.  [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R, Wilson, R., Deser, C, Wiles, G., Cook, E., Villalba, R., Tudhope, A., Cole, J. and Linsley, B. 2005. Tropical-North Pacific Climate Linkages Over the Past Four Centuries. Journal of Climate. 18 (24) 5253?5265 [view PDF]

Esper, J.,  Wilson, R.J.S., Frank, D.C. Moberg, A, Wanner, H and Luterbacher, J. 2005. Climate: Past Ranges and Future Changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 2164-2166 [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S., Luckman, B.H. and Esper, J. 2005. A 500-Year Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Spring/Summer Precipitation from the Lower Bavarian Forest Region, Germany. International Journal of Climatology, 25: 611-630.
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Esper, J., Frank, D., Wilson, R.J.S. and Briffa, K. 2005. Effect of scaling and regression on reconstructed temperature amplitude for the past millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L07711, doi:10.1029/2004GL021236. [view PDF]

Luckman, B.H. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2005. Summer temperature in the Canadian Rockies during the last millennium ? a revised record. Climate Dynamics, 24: 131-144.DOI 10.1007/s00382-004-0511-0.  [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R, Mashig, E, Frank, D, Wilson, R.J.S. and Jacoby, G. 2005. Temperature variability over the past millennium inferred from Northwestern Alaska tree rings. Climate Dynamics,  24: 227-236. DOI 10.1007/s00382-004-0502-1.  [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Jacoby, G., Wilson, R.J and Panagiotopoulos, F. 2005. A Reconstructed Siberian High Index since AD 1599 from Eurasian and North American Tree Rings. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L05705, doi:10.1029/2004GL022271.  [view PDF]

D'Arrigo, R., Cook, E.R., Wilson, R.J., Allan, R and Mann, M.E. 2005. On the Variability of ENSO Over the Past Six Centuries. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L03711, doi:10.1029/2004GL022055.  [view PDF]

Buckley, B.M., Wilson, R.J.S., Kelly, P.E., Larson, D.W and Cook, E.R. 2004. Inferred summer precipitation for Southern Ontario back to 610 AD as reconstructed from ring-widths of Thuja occidentalis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 34(12): 2541-2553.  [view PDF]

D?Arrigo, R, Mashig, E, Frank, D, Jacoby, G. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2004. Reconstructed Warm Season Temperatures For Nome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters. 31, (9): doi:10.1029/2004GL019756.  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S., Esper, J. and Luckman, B.H. 2004. Utilising Historical Tree-Ring Data for Dendroclimatology: A Case study from the Bavarian Forest, Germany. Dendrochronologia. 21 (2): 53-68.  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S. and Topham, J. 2004. Violins and Climate. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 77: 9-24.  [view PDF]

Esper, J., Frank, D. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2004. Climate Reconstructions: Low-Frequency Ambition and High-Frequency Ratification. EOS, 85(12):  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S. and Elling, W. 2004. Temporal instabilities of tree-growth/climate response in the Lower Bavarian Forest Region: Implications for dendroclimatic reconstruction. Trees: Structure and Function, 18 (1): 19-28.  [view PDF]

Esper, J., Shiyatov, S.G., Mazepa, V.S., Wilson, R.J.S., Graybill, D.A. and Funkhouser, G. 2003. Temperature-sensitive Tien Shan tree ring chronologies show multi-centennial growth trends. Climate Dynamics, 21 (8): 699-706.  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S. and Luckman, B.H. 2003. Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Maximum Summer Temperatures from Upper Tree-Line Sites in Interior British Columbia. The Holocene. 13(6): 853-863.  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S. and Luckman, B.H. 2002. Tree-ring reconstruction of maximum and minimum temperatures and the diurnal temperature range in British Columbia, Canada. Dendrochronologia, 20(3): 257-268.  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S. and Hopfmueller, M. 2001. Dendrochronological investigations of Norway spruce along an  elevational transect in the Bavarian Forest, Germany. Dendrochronologia, 19(1): 67-79.  [view PDF]

Lara, A, Villalba, R, Aravena, J.C., Luckman, B.H. Wolodarsky, A and Wilson, R.J.S. 2001. Dendrochronological studies of Nothofagus pumilo at tree-line in Central Chile. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 31(6): 925-936.  [view PDF]

Wilson, R.J.S. and Hannan, D.G. 1995. From Ice to Ice Free: Glaciation in the Lake Ayr Valley, Central  Tasmania., Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 129: 35-41. 

Partially refereed:

Wilson, R. 2009. Bringing the “climate” back to British tree-rings. Invited keynote presentation. Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology (TRACE). Proceedings.

Tyers, I. And Wilson R.J.S. 2000. Tree-Ring Analysis Of Oak Timbers From Nos 66 And 68 Westgate Street, Gloucester. Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 19/2000.

Wilson, R.J.S. and Tyers, I. 1999. Tree-Ring Analysis Of Oak Timbers From The Church Of St. Mary The Virgin, Yatton, Avon. Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 61/1999.

Conference, Workshop and Seminar presentations:

Wilson, R. and Büntgen U. 2010. The challenge of reconstructing spatial and long term hydroclimate variability in central Europe. Workshop CLIMATE 1K workshop. Carry-le-Rouet, 27-29 November.

 

Wilson, R., Miles, D., Loader, N., Melvin, T. and Briffa, K. A 1000+ year summer PDSI reconstruction for southern-central England. Oral Presentation. WorldDendro 2010. International Conference on Dendrochronology. Finland. June 13th-18th.

 

Wilson, R., Loader, N., Crone, A., Mills, C., Edwards, C. and Rydval, M. 2010. The soggy road to an 8000-year Scottish pine chronology. Poster Presentation. WorldDendro 2010. International Conference on Dendrochronology. Finland. June 13th-18th.

 

Fish, T., Wilson, R., Edwards, C., Mills, C., Crone, A., Kirchhefer, A.J.., Linderholm, H.W ., Loader, N.J.. and Woodley, E.J. 2010. Exploring for senescence signals in native Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris l.) in the Scottish Highlands. Poster Presentation. WorldDendro 2010. International Conference on Dendrochronology. Finland. June 13th-18th.

 

Zhang Y., Wilmking M., Juday G.P., Alix C., Berg E., Buckley B., Danby R., D'Arrigo R., Hogg, E.H., Lloyd A., Luckman B., Pisaric M., Porter T., Roland C., Sherriff R., Wiles G., Wilson R., Winslow S. Non-linear responses of White Spruce to changing climatic factors in Northwestern North American. Poster Presentation. WorldDendro 2010. International Conference on Dendrochronology. Finland. June 13th-18th.

 

Wilmking M., Juday G.P., Zhang Y., Alix C., Anchukaitis K., Barber V., Berg E., Buckley B., Bunn A., Danby R., D'Arrigo R., Hogg E.H., King G., Laxton E., Lloyd A., Luckman B., Pisaric M., Porter T., Roland C., Sherriff R., Wiles G., Wilson R., Winslow S. A Tale of 10,000 trees - The Northwestern North American Tree Ring Synthesis. Oral Presentation. WorldDendro 2010. International Conference on Dendrochronology. Finland. June 13th-18th.

 

Wilson, R., Loader, N., Mills, C., Crone, A., Edwards, C., Cunningham, L., Frith, A. and Rydval, M. 2010. The soggy road to a climatically sensitive 8000-year Scottish pine chronology. Oral presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010. Vienna, Austria, 2nd-7th May, 2010.

 

Cunningham, L., Wilson, R., Wanamaker Jr, A.,  Butler, P., Eiriksson, J., Knudsen, K., Cage, A.,  Austin, B., Kristensen, D., Richter, T., Sicre, M., Jiang, H. and Scourse, J. 2010. Preliminary composite reconstructions of late Holocene summer sea surface temperatures from the North Atlantic. Oral presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010. Vienna, Austria, 2nd-7th May, 2010.

 

Wilson, R and Zorita, E. 2010. The medieval mismatch of model and proxy ensembles for Northern Hemispheric temperatures. Poster  presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010. Vienna, Austria, 2nd-7th May, 2010.

 

Kiss, A., Wilson, R., Holawe, F., Strömmer, E. and Bariska, I. 2010. The role of biophysical indicators in the reconstruction of long-term late-spring – summer temperatures for the region of Western Hungary and Eastern Austria. Poster  presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010. Vienna, Austria, 2nd-7th May, 2010.

 

Zorita, E., Moberg, A., Leijonhufvud, L., Wilson, R., Brazdil, R, Dobrovolny., P., Luterbacher, J., Bohm, R., Pfister, C., Glaser, R., Soderberg, J and Gonz´alez-Rouco, F. 2009. European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary information compared to climate simulations. European Conference on Applications of Meteorology. 28 September - 02 October 2009. Toulouse, France

 

Kiss, A. and Wilson, R. 2009. May-July temperature reconstruction in early modern Hungary – based on vine and grain phenological evidence …… and the role of possible further indicators. 1st World Congress of Environmental History: Local Livelihoods and Global Challenges: Understanding Human Interaction with the Environment. Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8, August, 2009

 

R. Wilson. Depressing Times: Estimating Medieval Climate from Tree-Rings. 2009. Invited Keynote. Invite Keynote presentation. European Science Foundation (ESF) exploratory workshop on synoptic-scale climate dynamics over the last millennium. Kippel Workshop 17-20 May 2009.

 

R. Wilson., E Cook, R D'Arrigo, N Riedwyl, M Evans, A Tudhope, and R Allan. 2009. Reconstructing ENSO – Methods, Proxy Data and Teleconnections. Oral Presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009. Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009

 

A. Moberg, P. Dobrovolny, R. Wilson, R., Brazdil, C. Pfister, R. Glaser, L. Leijonhufvud, and E. Zorita. 2009. Quantifying uncertainty in documentary-data based climate reconstructions? Oral Presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009. Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009

 

A. Kiss and Wilson, R. 2009. Analysis of late spring-summer temperatures for Western Hungary based on vine, grain tithes and harvest records. Poster Presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009. Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009

 

C. V. Wood, M. I. Bird, and Wilson, R. 2009. An isotopic dendrochronological approach to understanding the multi-decadal-scale dynamics of forest-savannah boundaries in the tropics. Poster Presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009. Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009

 

K. Stott, W. Austin, Wilson, R., and M. Sayer. 2009. Arctica islandica: a proxy for reconstructing North West European climate. Poster Presentation. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009. Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009 

 

R. Wilson. (Invited lecture). 2008. Seeing through the forest: teasing out climatic information from tree-rings. NICE Autumn School Programme. October 6th-10th. Poznan.

 

Dobrovolny, P., Brazdil, R., Moberg, A. Wilson, R., Pfister, C., Glaser, R. 2008: Temperature reconstruction of Central Europe from documentary evidence and instrumental measurements since AD 1500. EMS8/ECAC7 Abstracts, Vol. 5, EMS2008-A-00000, 2008, 8th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 7th ECAC, Amsterdam.

 

A. Baker, V. Trouet, C. Spoetl, I. Fairchild, R. Wilson, and J. Epser. 2008. North Atlantic climate for the last 1000 years reconstructed from an annually laminated stalagmite from Northwest Scotland. RAPID Annual Meeting 2008

 

A. Baker, I. Fairchild, C. Spötl, R. Wilson and L. Fuller. 2008. Winter temperature for the last 1000 years in NW Scotland reconstructed from C isotopes in an annually laminated stalagmite. Climate Change: The Karst Record V. Southwest University of China in Chongqing.

 

D’Arrigo, R., Wilson, R. and Palmer, J. 2008 Tropical ocean variability and Indonesian drought: Tree rings and corals. Presentation, First AMERIDENDRO Conference, June 23-27, 2008, Vancouver.

R. Wilson. 2008. Bringing the “climate” back to British tree-rings. Invited keynote presentation. Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology (TRACE). April 27-30th. Zakopane, Poland

R. Wilson. 2008. The “Divergence Problem” in Dendroclimatology. Invited keynote presentation for Panel Discussion Session. Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology (TRACE). April 27-30th. Zakopane, Poland

D’Arrigo, R., Wilson, R. and Palmer, J. 2008. Monsoon Drought over Java, Indonesia over recent centuries and linkages to Indian and Pacific Ocean Climate Variability". NOAA Workshop, Reconciling ENSO chronologies for the past 500 years. April 2-3, Papeete, Tahiti. 

 

Stott, K., Austin, W. and Wilson. R . 2008. ‘Arctica islandica: Extending the instrumental record of climate from NW Europe’. Poster presentation at the Quaternary Research Association Annual Discussion Meeting, at the Royal Geographical Society. January.

 

R. Wilson and R. D'Arrigo. Impact of volcanic forcing on tropical temperatures over the last four centuries. Oral presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 10th-14th.

 

R. D'Arrigo and R. Wilson. 2007. Tropical-North Pacific Climate Linkages derived from Tree Rings and Corals. Invited Oral presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 10th-14th.

 

Anchukaitis, K J, D'Arrigo, R D, Cook, E R, Wilson, R, Buckley, B M, Krusic, P J, Wright, W E, Palmer, J and Sakulich, J. Climate field reconstructions of Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures. Oral presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 10th-14th.

 

D'Arrigo, R, Wilson, R, Allan, R, Palmer, J, Sakulich, J, Smerdon, J, Bijaksana, S and Ngkoimani, L. 2007. Indian Ocean and Asian Monsoon Influences on Indonesian Drought: Climate Signals in Tree Rings and Corals. Poster presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 10th-14th.

 

Büntgen U, Esper J, Verstege A, Frank DC, Wilson RJS. 2007. Climatic response of multiple tree-ring parameters from the Spanish central Pyrenees. In: Haneca K et al. (Eds.) Tree rings in archaeology, climatology and ecology, TRACE, Vol. 5, 60-72.

Wilson, R. 2007. Studying environmental and climatic change using tree-rings. Invited seminar. Royal Meteorological Society. North-east Division. Bute Natural History Society. November 27th.

Wilson, R. 2007. Cycles and Shifts: 1300-years of multi-decadal temperature variability in the Gulf of Alaska. Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology. Stockholm University. September 19th.

 

Wilson, R. 2007. Dendrochronology: Its application to the study of environmental and climatic change. School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews. June 5th.

 

Wilson, R. 2007. A cautionary tale of combining proxy records: The Millennium experience. Workshop on "Data assimilation to study the climate of the past millennium". 30th May-1st June 2007, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Wilson, R. 2007. Studying environmental and climatic change using tree-rings. Invited seminar. Royal Meteorological Society. North-east Division. St. Chads College, University of Durham. March 9th.

Wilson, R. 2007. The devil is in the detail: Reconstructing northern hemisphere temperatures using tree-rings for the last 1000 years. Invited seminar. Geography Department, University of Sheffield. March 6th.

Wilson, R. 2007. Reconstructing northern hemisphere temperatures for the last 1000 years: Do we really have the answer? Invited seminar. Geography Department, University of Swansea. February 28th.

Wilson, R., D’Arrigo. R., Buckley, B., Büntgen, U., Esper, J., Frank, D., Luckman, B., Payette, S. Vose, R. and Youngblut, D. 2006. A matter of divergence – tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree-ring data. Oral presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 11th-15th.

D'Arrigo, R and Wilson, R. 2006. Reconstructed Indonesian Warm Pool SSTs from Tree Rings and Corals. Poster presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 11th-15th.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2006. How robust are northern hemisphere temperature reconstructions for the last 1000 years? Global Change Seminar series, University of Edinburgh. October 25th.

Wilson, R.J.S., Wiles, G., D?Arrigo, R. and Zweck. C. Cycles and Shifts: 1300-years of multi-decadal temperature variability in the Gulf of Alaska. Oral presentation at the 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology, June 11-17, 2006 Beijing, China.

D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R., Palmer, J., Krusic, P., Curtis, A, Sakulich, J, Bijaksana, S, Zulaikah, S, Ngkoimani, and Tudhope, A. Tree-Ring and Coral Reconstruction of Indonesian Warm Pool SSTs: Linkages to Monsoon and ENSO Variability. Oral presentation at the 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology, June 11-17, 2006 Beijing, China.

Sakulich, J, Curtis, A, D'Arrigo, R., Palmer, J., Wilson, R., Krusic, P., Bijaksana, S, Ngkoimani, and Zulaikah, S, Tree-ring chronologies from remnant Teak (Tectona grandis) stands and subfossil wood on Java, Indonesia. Oral presentation at the 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology, June 11-17, 2006 Beijing, China.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2005. The study of past climate using tree rings. December 7th. Department of Geography Research Seminar Series, Manchester University.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2005. How good are Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions?. October 17th. Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL, Birmensdorf, Zurich.

Luckman, B., Watson, E and Wilson, R. 2005. Drawing climatic inferences from glacier fluctuations in the Canadian Cordillera. Oral ntation at the Open Science Conference: Global Change in Mountain Regions. Perth, Scotland, UK, 2 - 6 October 2005.

Wiles, G, Young, N., D'Arrigo, R.D., Barclay, D.J., Calkin, P.E., and Wilson, R. 2005. Century to Millennial-Scale Temperature Variations for the Last Two Thousand Years Inferred from Alaskan Glacial Geologic Records. Poster presentation at the Open Science Conference: Global Change in Mountain Regions. Perth, Scotland, UK, 2 - 6 October 2005.

Wilson R.J.S. 2005. Tree Rings: Their application to the study of environmental and climatic change. 3rd Holivar training course: Quantitative climate reconstruction and data-model comparisons. Toulouse, France. 27th June - 8th July.

Luckman B.H., Watson, E., and Wilson R.J.S. 2005. Glaciers, tree-rings and environmental change in the Canadian Rockies. Glacier change in Western Canada, Canadian Geophysical Union, Banff, 8-11 May, 2005

Luckman B.H., Watson, E. and Wilson R.J.S. 2005. Reconstructing the environmental history of the last millennium using multiproxy data in the Canadian Cordillera. "New Approaches to Quaternary Sciences in Fuego-Patagonia" Puerto Natales, Chile, April 4-9, 2005, p 17-18.

Luckman B.H. , Watson, E. , Wilson R.J.S. and Van Dorp, R.D. 2005. Recent Dendrochronological investigations in the Canadian Cordillera. 5th Annual Science Meeting IAI CRN03, Akumal, Yucatan, 28 March-1st April 2005 p 2-3

Watson, E., Luckman, B.H., Pederson, G.T and Wilson, R.J.S. 2005. Environmental changes in the southern Canadian Rockies from multiple tree-ring proxies. MTNCLIM 2005: Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains. Chico Hot Springs Resort, Pray, Montana, March 1-4 2005.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2005. Dendrochronology: Its application to the study of environmental and climatic change. February 28th. Research Seminar Series, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling.

D?Arrigo, R., Wilson, R., Deser, D., Wiles, G., Cook, E., Villalba, R., Tudhope, A., Cole, J. and Linsley, B. 2005. Tropical-North Pacific Climate Linkages Over the Past Four Centuries. AGU Chapman Conference on Tropical-Extratropical Climatic Teleconnections, A Long-Term Perspective. Honolulu Hawaii. February 8-11.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2004. Dendrochronology: Its application to the study of environmental change. November 5th. Hutton Club, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.

Wiles, G., D'Arrigo, R., Wilson, R. and Barclay, D. Northeast Pacific Summer Temperature Variability for the Last Two Millennia Inferred from Tree Ring and Glacier Expansion Proxy Records. AGU Fall Meeting 2004. December 13-17. San Francisco.

Luckman B.H., Wilson, R.J.S. and Watson E. "How did climates vary during the "Little Ice Age"in the southern Canadian Cordillera?" Special Session "Holocene and Little Ice Age Climate Change in Western Canada" at Geological Association of Canada , Annual Meeting , St Catharines, Ontario, 14 May 2004.

Frank, D.C., Esper, J. and Wilson, R.J.S. Reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperature: How they measure-up when undressed. (Oral presentation at the International Symposium, TRACE 2004: Tree-rings in archaeology, climatology and ecology. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, April 22-24, 2004).

Luckman B. H., Youngblut, D.K., Wilson, R.J.S., Watson E., Colenutt, M.E. and St.George, R.S . Dendroclimatology in the Canadian Cordillera. (Oral presentation: Tree Rings and Climate: Sharpening the Focus: Tucson, Arizona USA, April 6-9, 2004).

Wilson, R.J.S. 2004. Violins and Climate: Dendroclimatic reconstruction of summer temperatures in the Alpine region. Oral presentation prepared for "Holocene climate in the Alps: Toward a common framework ?". Aix Les Bains (France), 15-18 January 2004.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2003. Historical Tree-Ring Material and Dendroclimatology: A Central European Perspective. October 17th. Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL, Birmensdorf, Zurich.

Wilson, R.J.S., Esper, J. and Luckman, B.H. Utilising Historical Tree-Ring Data for Dendroclimatology: A Case Study from the Bavarian Forest, Germany. (Oral presentation at the International Symposium, TRACE 2003: Tree-rings in archeology, climatology and ecology. Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 1-3, 2003).

Esper, J., Frank, D.C. and Wilson, R.J.S. A detailed view on large-scale observational temperature data and their millennia-long reconstructions. (Oral presentation at the International Symposium, TRACE 2003: Tree-rings in archaeology, climatology and ecology. Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 1-3, 2003).

Luckman, B. H., Watson, E. and Wilson, R.J.S. Multiproxy characterization of regional paleoclimates from mountain areas. (Oral presentation at the EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly. Nice, France, 6-11 April, 2003.

Luckman, B.H.,  Wilson, R.J.S. and Youngblut. D.K. Summer temperature reconstructions from treeline sites in the Canadian Cordillera. Dendrochronology, Environmental Change and Human History: 6th international Conference on Dendrochronology. Québec City, August 22nd-27th 2002, pp 219-221.

Kavanagh, T. and Wilson, R.J.S. Seedling height and ring-width growth response to climate at treeline, Sunwapta Pass, Alberta. Dendrochronology, Environmental Change and Human History: 6th International Conference on Dendrochronology. Québec City, August 22nd-27th 2002, pp 174-176.

Luckman, B.H.,  Wilson, R.J.S.Youngblut. D.Kand Watson, E. 2002 Recent Investigations in the Canadian Cordillera. Third Annual Science Meeting IAI CRN03, Oaxaca Mexico, 19-23 April, 2002, pp 32-36.

Kavanagh, T. and Wilson, R.J.S. Tree ring width and seedling height growth at treeline, Columbia Icefield, Alberta, Canada. Oral presentation at the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002.

Wilson, R.J.S. Changing Relationship between Spruce and Fir over the last 500 years: Implications for Climatic Reconstruction in the Lower Bavarian Forest, Germany. (Presented as a poster at the International Conference on the Future of Dendrochronology: Tree Rings and People: A Tribute to Fritz Hans Schweingruber. Davos, Switzerland, 22-26 September, 2001).

Wilson, R.J.S. and Luckman, B.H. Preliminary Reconstructions from 1750-1991 for May-August Maximum and Minimum Temperatures and the Diurnal Temperature Range for Interior British Columbia. (Presented as a poster at the International Conference on the Future of Dendrochronology: Tree Rings and People: A Tribute to Fritz Hans Schweingruber. Davos, Switzerland, 22-26 September, 2001).

Luckman, B.H., Wilson, R.J.S., Watson, E., Colenutt, M.E., St. George, R.S. and Youngblut, D.K. The IAI 'Treelines' Project: Recent Developments in the Canadian Rockies and Adjacent Areas. Oral presentation at the Workshop on ? Climate Change at High Elevation Sites: Emerging Impacts (HIGHEST II), 25-28 June, 2001, Davos, Switzerland.

Wilson, R.J.S. A Preliminary Reconstruction of March-August Precipitation for the last 500-years in the Lower Bavarian Forest Region, Germany. (Poster presentation at the International Conference on Dendrochronology for the Third Millennium, 2-7 April, 2000 Mendoza, Argentina). 

Wilson, R.J.S. and Luckman, B.H. Reconstructing summer maximum temperatures since 1600 from Engelmann spruce at treeline in Interior British Columbia. (Oral presentation at the International Conference on Dendrochronology for the Third Millennium, 2-7 April, 2000 Mendoza, Argentina).

Smith, D., Camp,A., Nilles, P., Muzika, R., Royall, D and Wilson, R. 1995. Extending Snow Avalanche Chronologies: The uses and constraints of detrital wood. Poster presentation prepared for the 6th International Dendroecological Fieldweek. Kananskis Centre for Environmental Research. University of Calgary. Alberta. July 7, 1995.

Technical Reports:

Wilson, R. and Rydval, M. 2010. Dendrochronological Sampling and Investigations in the Cairngorm Mountains during 2008 and 2009. Unpublished report prepared for the Rothiemurchus Estates, NTS, SNH and RSPB.

Wilson, R. 2008. Dendrochronological Investigations of Scots Pine from the North-West Cairngorms Region, Scotland. Prepared for the Rothiemurchus Estates.

Fish, T., Mills, C. Wilson, R. and Edwards, C. 2007. Scottish native pine dendrochronology development: a chronology from Mar Lodge. Unpublished AOC Archaeology Report for Historic Scotland & the Forest Research Agency.

Fish, T., Wilson, R. and Mills, C. 2007. Scottish native pine dendrochronology development: a chronology from Glen Affric. Unpublished AOC Archaeology Report for Historic Scotland & the Forest Research Agency.

Esper J, Wilson RJS, Frank DC, Moberg A, Wanner H, Luterbacher H (2006) Strategies for improving large-scale temperature reconstructions In: Kulke E et al. (Eds.) Grenzwerte, Scientific Report, DGFG, 547-551.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2004. Eurasian Regional Composite Chronologies. Research report prepared for Rosanne D'Arrigo and Gordon Jacoby of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New York. 31 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2004.North American Regional Composite Chronologies. Research report prepared for Rosanne D'Arrigo and Gordon Jacoby of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New York. 27 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2003. Dendroclimatic investigations along the Gulf of Alaska. Research report prepared for Rosanne D'Arrigo of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New York. 31 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2003. Regional Curve Standardisation and the LDEO TR data-set: Part II: Large Scale Regional Series. Research report prepared for Rosanne D'Arrigo of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New York. 29 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2003. Measurement and analysis of five ring-width chronologies from Washington State. Research report prepared for Val Barber of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Rosanne D'Arrigo of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New York. 25 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2003. Regional Curve Standardisation and the LDEO TR data-set: Part I: Single Site Assessment. Research report prepared for Rosanne D'Arrigo of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New York. 84 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2001. Dendro-Historische Datierung In Straubing, Deutschland. Technical report prepared for the Straubing Hochbauamt und Stadtarchiv. 27 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2001. Assessment of Precipitation and Temperature Records in the Bavarian Forest and its Surrounding Area for Dendrochronological Purposes. Research report prepared for the German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst). 39 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2001. Dendro-historical dating of select buildings in the Lower Bavarian Forest Region, Germany. Grafenau, Stadtplatz 14, "Schraml Haus" (6 pp); Mariaposching, Schloss Loham (3 pp); Oberaltaich (2 pp); Straubing Salzstadel (6 pp); Schoenberg, Anwesen Sigl (2 pp); Straubing, Stadtturm (4 pp); Bad Windsheim, Spital gasse (1 pp); Rottenburg/Laaber Heimatmuseum (1 pp); Theresienplatz 40, Straubing (6 pp); Residenz Landshut (5 pp); Schierling, Pfarrkirche (2 pp). Series of short reports prepared for Architect Buro Feldmeier.

Buckley, B.M. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2001. Sugar maple project report: Dating, measurement and preliminary  analyses. Report prepared for the US Forestry Service. 51 pp.

Buckley, B.M. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2001. Frost Valley, New York: Sugar Maple/Yellow Birch Dating and Measurement. Report prepared for the US Forestry Service. 11 pp.

Wilson, R.J.S. 2000. Dendro-Historische Datierung in Regensburg und Umgebung. Technical report  prepared for the Regensburg Denkmalpfelge, Germany. 17 pp. 

Buckley, B.M. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2000. Dendrochronological Investigations of Sugar Maple in Pennsylvania and New York. Part 3: Final Maple Measurement Report. Report submitted to  the US Forestry Service. 12 pp.

Buckley, B.M. and Wilson, R.J.S. 2000. Dendrochronological Investigations of Sugar Maple in Pennsylvania and New York. Part 2: Maple Measurement and Further Preliminary Analyses. Report submitted to  the US Forestry Service. 21 pp.

Buckley, B.M. and Wilson, R.J.S. 1999. Dendrochronological Investigations of Sugar Maple in Pennsylvania and New York. Part 1: Maple Measurement Report. Report submitted to the US Forestry Service. 29 pp.

Luckman, B.H., Wilson, R.J.S., Watson, E., Colenutt, M.E., Youngblut, D. and Robinson, B.J. 1998. Field  investigations in the Southern Canadian Cordillera in 1998. Report submitted to B.C. Parks Service and Parks Canada. December, 1998. 15 pp.

Argent, R.M. and Wilson, R.J.S. 1996-98. The Tree-Ring FAQ. Internet publication.

Smith, D., Camp,A., Nilles, P., Muzika, R., Royall, D and Wilson, R. 1995. Extending Snow Avalanche Chronologies: The uses and constraints of detrital wood. Prepared for the 6th International Dendroecological Fieldweek. Kananskis Centre for Environmental Research. University of Calgary. Alberta. July 7, 1995.


ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND ORGANISATIONS

2009-11: Member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society

2007-11: Member of the Tree-Ring Society

2006-11: Member of the American Geophysical Union

2006-11: On management committee for EU MILLENNIUM project

2003-04: Member of the Association for Tree-Ring Research

2000-02: Graduate representative on the UWO Environmental Science Graduate Education Committee.

1999: Coordinator of the UWO Environmental Science Graduate Symposium.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Scientific Reviewer - funding councils in bold

  • Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Biological Conservation
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Carnegie Trust
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Dendrochronologia
  • Environmental Pollution
  • European Journal of Forest Research
  • Global Change Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research
  • NERC
  • Quaternary Research
  • Science
  • The Holocene
  • Tree-Ring Research
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary reviews-Climate Change

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2002:   University of Western Ontario (UWO) Environmental Science Research & Academic Achievement Award
            E.C. Pleva Award for teaching Assistants. Department of Geography, UWO.
            UWO Overseas Students Bursary Scholarship.
            UWO Special University Scholarship.

2001:  UWO Environmental Science Graduate Program Scholarship.
            UWO Overseas Students Bursary Scholarship.
            UWO Special University Scholarship.

2000: UWO President's Scholarship.
            UWO Overseas Students Bursary Scholarship.
            UWO McIntosh Graduate Fellowship.

1999: UWO President's Scholarship.
            UWO Overseas Students Bursary Scholarship.

1998: UWO Environmental Science Graduate Program Scholarship.
            UWO Special University Scholarship.

1997: UWO Environmental Science Graduate Program Scholarship.
            UWO Special University Scholarship.

1989: Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award.


OTHER INFORMATION AND INTERESTS

1. Nationality: British.
2. Date of Birth: 11.17.1970.
3. Birth Place: Carlisle, England.
4. Married Status: Married.
5. Relatively fluent in speaking German.
6. Outdoor activities: Fell running and mountaineering.


REFERENCES
 

Dr. Rosanne D'Arrigo
Tree-Ring Laboratory 
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 
Columbia University
Palisades
NY 10964 USA 

001-914-914-365-8517 
001-914-365-8152 (fax)
druidrd@ldeo.columbia.edu

Dr. Sandy Tudhope
Grant Institute
School of GeoSciences
Edinburgh University

West Mains Road, Edinburgh.
EH9 3JW. Scotland, U.K.

0131-650-8508
0131-668-3184 (fax)
sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk

Dr. K. Briffa
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ, UK

01603-593909
01603-507784 (fax)
k.briffa@uea.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keywords

tree-ring, tree, ring, dendroclimatology, reconstruction, precipitation, temperature, maximum, minimum, DTR, response, change, RCS, climate, corals, British Columbia, Canada, Germany, Bavarian Forest, Northern Hemisphere,  Edinburgh University, Geosciences, Grant Institute

http://www.ericwood.co.uk/