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115
Citations
63004
World Ranking
154
National Ranking
71

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Edward R. Cook is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Anthropology.

Their work extensively covers key topics including Tree-ring climate responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Forest ecology and management, and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Edward R. Cook's recent papers illustrate a focus on climate change and its impacts on drought and hydrology. Notable publications include:

  1. Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought, 2020, Science
  2. Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  3. Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  4. Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  5. Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators include Benjamin I. Cook, Kathryn Allen, Jonathan Palmer, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, and Park Williams, indicating a collaborative approach within the community studying climate and environmental changes.

Edward R. Cook's work is commonly published in the following venues, reflecting their areas of expertise and scientific focus:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Dendrochronologia

In recognition of their contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Methods of Dendrochronology - Applications in the Environmental Sciences

    E. R. Cook;L. A. Kairiukstis

  • A time series analysis approach to tree-ring standardization

    Edward R. Cook

  • Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Daniel Griffin

  • Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States

    Edward R. Cook;Connie A. Woodhouse;C. Mark Eakin;David M. Meko

  • A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS APPROACH TO TREE RING STANDARDIZATION (DENDROCHRONOLOGY, FORESTRY, DENDROCLIMATOLOGY, AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS).

    Edward Roger. Cook

  • Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability

    Jan Esper;Edward R. Cook;Fritz H. Schweingruber

  • The smoothing spline : a new approach to standardizing forest interior tree-ring width series for dendroclimatic studies

    Edward R. Cook;Kenneth Peters

  • Methods of Dendrochronology

    E. R. Cook;L. A. Kairiukstis

  • Asian monsoon failure and megadrought during the last millennium.

    Edward R. Cook;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Brendan M. Buckley;Rosanne D. D’Arrigo

  • Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States

    Edward R. Cook;David M. Meko;David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Variability in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Through a Glacial-Interglacial Cycle

    Alexander W. Tudhope;Alexander W. Tudhope;Colin P. Chilcott;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Edward R. Cook

  • North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane;David W. Stahle

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought.

    A. Park Williams;Edward R. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies:

    Edward R. Cook;Keith R. Briffa;David M. Meko;Donald A. Graybill

  • Calculating unbiased tree-ring indices for the study of climatic and environmental change

    Edward R. Cook;Kenneth Peters

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • The D/H ratios of sap in trees: implications for water sources and tree ring D/H ratios

    James W.C. White;Edward R. Cook;James R. Lawrence;S Broecker Wallace

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Rosanne D'Arrigo
Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jonathan G. Palmer
Jonathan G. Palmer University of New South Wales
Jinbao Li
Jinbao Li University of Hong Kong
Jason E. Smerdon
Jason E. Smerdon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Gordon C. Jacoby
Gordon C. Jacoby Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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