Meet the speakers for SAFE Connections:
Tree-Ring Science Programs and Careers
Join us on October 22nd from 2-3pm MDT to learn more about tree-ring fire science and programs at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona and the USFS, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Our speakers Dr. Jose Iniguez and Dr. Tom Swetnam are accomplished fire science professionals with advice to share with students on beginning a career in tree-ring fire science.
Jose Iniguez received both a Bachelor and a Masters of Science from Northern Arizona University, before earning a PhD at the University of Arizona in Tucson while working at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Jose is currently a Research Ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in the Wildlife Ecology Program, stationed in Flagstaff Arizona. His projects include studies related to the impacts of recent wildfires on Southwest forests. Jose is interested in linking stand and landscape level processes related to fire and fire history. His most current works has also focused on post-fire regeneration, age structure, tree spatial patterns, managed fires as well as post-fire landscape patterns and severity. Jose has also collaborated internationally in Mexico and Peru. He is also the Scientist-in-Charge for the Long Valley Experimental Forest which is located 50 miles south of Flagstaff and contains >600 ac of the last remnant ponderosa pine forest.
Tom Swetnam studies changes in climate and forest disturbances using dendrochronology. He is Regents Professor Emeritus at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. He has worked extensively on wildfire history and ecology in pine and giant sequoia forests of the western U.S., Mexico, South America, and Siberia, Russia. In addition to research in forest dynamics, disturbances and climate change, Tom is interested in the applications of science in the management of natural resources and in promoting effective science education and communication with land managers and the public. Tom’s honors and awards include: Harold C. Fritts Lifetime Achievement Award, Tree-Ring Society, 2016; Harold Biswell Award for Lifetime Achievement, Association for Fire Ecology, 2016; American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, elected 2015; Henry Cowles Award, Association of American Geographers, 2002; William Skinner Cooper Award, Ecological Society of America, 2001. Tom current resides in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, where he and his wife Suzanne enjoy a busy retirement life of gardening, community volunteering, and tree-ring dating of historic buildings, archaeological timbers, and fire scars.
