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69
Citations
17355
World Ranking
1786
National Ranking
755

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Cathy Whitlock is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States. Their research spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geophysics. The main topics explored in their work cover geology and paleoclimatology research, fire effects on ecosystems, tree-ring climate responses, isotope analysis in ecology, geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Whitlock's frequent publication venues include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Quaternary Science Reviews, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Geological Society of America Bulletin.

The researcher has coauthored numerous works with colleagues such as Christopher Schiller, Lisa A. Morgan, Nels Iverson, William Nanavati, and Joseph M. Licciardi.

Representative recent papers authored by Whitlock include:

  • If the trees burn, is the forest lost? Past dynamics in temperate forests help inform management strategies (2020), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Multi-proxy record of Holocene paleoenvironmental conditions from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA (2021), Quaternary Science Reviews
  • ERRONEOUSLY OLD RADIOCARBON AGES FROM TERRESTRIAL POLLEN CONCENTRATES IN YELLOWSTONE LAKE, WYOMING, USA (2020), Radiocarbon
  • Disentangling the last 1,000 years of human-environment interactions along the eastern side of the southern Andes (34-52°S lat.) (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Holocene history of monkey puzzle tree (pehuén) in northernmost Patagonia (2020), Journal of Biogeography

Whitlock's research work incorporates advanced methodologies in paleoclimate reconstruction and environmental change assessments, contributing insight into ecological and climatic histories over millennial to decadal timescales.

Honors awarded to Whitlock include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, received in 2018, and a fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), obtained in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Charcoal as a Fire Proxy

    Cathy Whitlock;Chris Larsen

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

    Tania Schoennagel;Jennifer K. Balch;Hannah Brenkert-Smith;Philip E. Dennison

  • Paleoclimate simulations for North America over the past 21,000 years: features of the simulated climate and comparisons with paleoenvironmental data

    P.J Bartlein;K.H Anderson;P.M Anderson;M.E Edwards

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Testing the assumptions of fire-history studies: an examination of modern charcoal accumulation in Yellowstone National Park, USA

    Cathy Whitlock;Sarah H. Millspaugh

  • A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study

    Colin J. Long;Cathy Whitlock;Patrick J. Bartlein;Sarah H. Millspaugh

  • Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Patrick J. Bartlein;M. K. Walsh;Sandy P. Harrison

  • Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept~!2009-09-02~!2009-11-09~!2010-03-05~!

    Cathy Whitlock;Philip E. Higuera;David B. McWethy;Christy E. Briles

  • Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr

    Cathy Whitlock;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

    David B. McWethy;Cathy Whitlock;Janet M. Wilmshurst;Matt S. McGlone

  • The role of climate and vegetation change in shaping past and future fire regimes in the northwestern US and the implications for ecosystem management

    Cathy Whitlock;Sarah L. Shafer;Jennifer Marlon

  • A 750-year fire history based on lake sediment records in central Yellowstone National Park, USA

    Sarah H. Millspaugh;Cathy Whitlock

  • Variations in fire frequency and climate over the past 17 000 yr in central Yellowstone National Park

    Sarah H. Millspaugh;Cathy Whitlock;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

    Cathy Whitlock;Philip E. Higuera;David B. McWethy;Christy E. Briles

  • Spatial variations of Holocene climatic change in the Yellowstone region.

    Cathy Whitlock;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Charcoal accumulation following a recent fire in the Cascade Range, northwestern USA, and its relevance for fire-history studies

    Jennifer J. Gardner;Cathy Whitlock

  • Simulating historical variability in the amount of old forests in the Oregon Coast Range.

    Michael C. Wimberly;Thomas A. Spies;Colin J. Long;Cathy Whitlock

  • A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

    Dominik Kulakowski;Rupert Seidl;Jan Holeksa;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America

    Cathy Whitlock;Patricio I. Moreno;Patrick Bartlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon
R. Scott Anderson
R. Scott Anderson Northern Arizona University
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno University of Granada
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Brian Huntley
Brian Huntley Durham University
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Judy R M Allen
Judy R M Allen Durham University
Debra A. Willard
Debra A. Willard United States Geological Survey

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