Research Intrests

My research interests are currently focused on Tropical Dendrochronology, with special emphasis on South and Southeast Asia.  As part of our 5-year project Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Asian Monsoon Climate Dynamics, I have developed the Laboratory of Tropical Dendrochronology (LTD), which is housed at the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden in north Thailand.  The LTD has been in actual operation since October 2004.  In August 2005 our primary operation was moved to Bangkok, and the Tree Ring Laboratory was officially opened at the Kasetsart University Faculty of Forestry (KUFF).  The KUFF laboratory is the regional hub of activity for our project in Southeast Asia, and we have begun a curriculum for teaching Dendrochronology at the University, and are planning a series of scholarships for developing post-graduate research projects linked to our Monsoon project.  The KUFF-TRL is fast becoming the regional training center for Dendrochronology, and a series of workshops have been planned, beginning in May of 2006.  I will be based from here for 6 months or more each year for the duration of the Asian Monsoon grant, working in locations from India, Sri Lanka, Laos, Thailand, and throughout South and Southeast Asia.  International, regional collaborations from these countries are critical for the success of our project.  For more on the SEA-DENDRO project, a link will be available soon.

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From left, a Bengali village elder in rural Madhya Pradesh; a traditional “welcome” drawing with colored sand in the doorway of a family home; special greeting for honored guests in the village.  My colleague, Amar Sikder (left of me) from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, grew up in this village.

Amar Sikder listening to the US election results, November 2004, via transistor radio from the remote reaches of Madhya Pradesh.

Sri Lankan wild elephants and monitor lizards roam in the Wasgamuwa National Park, and a beautiful lodge to stay in around the Knuckles region of central Sri Lanka.

December 29, 2005

I just returned to Bangkok from my second trip to Sri Lanka, where we held an intensive one-day workshop on Dendrochronology for an enthusiastic group of scientists and students interested in expanding the use of tree rings into Sri Lanka.  The workshop was held at the University of Peradeniya and hosted by the Post-Graduate Institute of Science (PGIS).  We followed that up by taking a sampling trip to the remote forests of the Knuckles mountain range in central Sri Lanka, and a trip to the amazing Wasgamuwa National Park where the wildlife was truly amazing.  I am hopefully optimistic of some good results from this work, and a fruitful collaboration with the wonderful folks I met along the way.

Participants at the First Workshop on Dendrochronology at Peradeniya University in Kandy, Sri Lanka, held on December 22, 2005.

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D. (1997).  Faculty of Science, IASOS, University of Tasmania, Australia

M.A. (1989).  Physical Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe

B.S. (1986).  Geography, Plymouth State College, New Hampshire

Professional Experience:

Founder of and consultant to the Tree Ring Laboratory

Kasetsart University Faculty of Forestry, Bangkok, Thailand             8/2005-present

Director and founder of Laboratory of Tropical Dendrochronology

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Mae Rim, Thailand                          8/2004-present

Lecturer, Kasetsart University Faculty of Forestry, Dendrochronology

Kasetsart University, Bangkok Thailand                                            Fall 2004

Doherty Associate Research Scientist, Tree Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth

Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York USA        9/1999-present

Lecturer, Department of Environmental Sciences, Barnard College

New York, USA                                                                                    Fall 2000

Adjunct Research Scientist/Lecturer, Climate Change Research Center,

University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA                                      1998-2000

Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth

Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York USA       1997-1999

Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Environmental and Marine Science,

University of Auckland, New Zealand                                                 1997-1998

Graduate Research Associate, Institute of Antarctic and Southern

Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia                 1993-1997

Research Fellow, NWG Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating,

University of Sydney, Australia                                                          1992-1993

Senior Research Assistant, Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth

Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York                 1989-1992

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Dept. Geography, Arizona

State University, Tempe, Arizona USA                                                1986-1988

Ph.D.  Thesis:

Climate variability in Tasmania based on dendroclimatic studies of Lagarostrobos franklinii. 

Advisors:  Dr. Andrew McMinn, Dr. Ed Cook (LDEO) 

Masters Thesis:

Dendroclimatic aspects of Engelmann spruce in Arizona and New Mexico.

Advisor:  Dr. Melvin G. Marcus, Dr. Thomas W. Swetnam (U. Arizona)

Field Investigations:

        Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Ecuador,

Publications:

Buckley, B.M., B.I. Cook, A. Bhattacharyya, D. Dukpa and V. Chaudhary, 2005.  Global surface temperature signals in pine ring width chronologies from southern monsoon Asia. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(20): 4pp.

Buckley, B.M., R.J.S. Wilson, P.E. Kelly, D.W. Larson and E.R. Cook, 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.

D'Arrigo, R., B.M. Buckley, S. Kaplan, and J. Woollett, 2003. Interannual to multidecadal modes of Labrador climate variability inferred from tree rings. Climate Dynamics, 20: 219-228.

Davi, N., R. D'Arrigo, G. Jacoby, B.M. Buckley and O. Kobayashi. 2002. Warm-season annual temperature variability for Hokkaido, Japan reconstructed from tree-ring density data: AD 1557-1990. Climatic Change, 52:201-217.

Buckley, B.M., O. Tongjit N. Pumijumnong and R. Poonsri, 2001.  Dendrometer band studies on Tectona grandis in northern Thailand.  The Palaeobotanist. 50(1): 83-87

Borgaonkar, H.P., N. Pumijumnong, B.M. Buckley , O. Taesumrith, and S. Chutiwat, 2001. A dendroclimatic analysis of a Teak (Tectona grandis) ring-width chronology from Mae Na, Thailand.  The Paleobotanist. 50(1):

D'Arrigo, R., G. Jacoby, D. Frank, N. Pederson, E. Cook, B.M. Buckley, Baatarbileg Nachin, R. Mijiddorj and C. Dugarjav, 2001. 1738 years of Mongolian temperature variability inferred from a tree-ring record of Siberian pine, Geophysical Research Letters, 28:543-546.

Pederson, N., G. Jacoby, R. D'Arrigo and B.M. Buckley. 2001. Hydrometeorological reconstructions for northeastern Mongolia derived from tree rings: 1651-1995.  Journal of Climate, 14:872-881.

Buckley, B.M., J. Ogden, J. Palmer and J. Salinger, 2000.  Dendroclimatic interpretation of tree-rings in Agathis australis(kauri): Climate correlation functions and master chronology.  Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 30(3), pp. 275-283..

Cook, E.R., R.D’Arrigo and B.M. Buckley, 2000. Warm season temperatures since 1600 B.C. reconstructed from Tasmanian tree rings and their relation to large-scale SST anomalies, Climate Dynamics, 16: 79-91.

D’Arrigo, R., E.R. Cook, R. Villalba, B.M. Buckley, J. Salinger, J. Palmer and K. Allen, 2000.  Trans Tasman Sea climate variability since AD 1740 inferred from middle to high latitude tree-ring data. Climate Dynamics, 16: 603-610

D’Arrigo, R., G. Jacoby, N. Pederson^, D. Frank, B.M. Buckley, N. Baatarbileg, R. Mijiddorj and C. Dugarjav. 2000. Mongolian tree rings, temperature sensitivity andreconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperature. The Holocene, 10: 669-672.

D'Arrigo, R. and B.M. Buckley. 1998. PAGES Newsletter article. Southeast Asian Dendrochronology Workshop: Progress Report on Meeting in Thailand, Feb. 1998.

D'Arrigo, R.D., E.R. Cook, J. Salinger, J. Palmer, B.M. Buckley, P. J. Krusic and R. Villalba. 1998. Temperature-sensitive tree-ring records from New Zealand: long-term context for recent warming trend. Climate Dynamics, 14:191-199.

Buckley, B.M., E.R. Cook, M.J. Peterson, and M. Barbetti, 1997.  A changing temperature response with elevation for Lagarostrobos franklinii in Tasmania, Australia. Climatic Change, Vol. 36, pp. 477-498.

D'Arrigo, R.D., M. Barbetti, M. Watanasak, B.M. Buckley, P. Krusic, S. Boonchirdchoo, and S. Sarutanon, 1997. Progress in dendroclimatic studies of mountain pine in northern Thailand.  IAWA Journal 18(4): 433-444.

D'Arrigo, R.D., E.R. Cook, G.C. Jacoby, B.M. Buckley and W.S. Wagner. 1996. Temperature-sensitive tree-ring width chronologies from subantarctic latitudes. Radiocarbon 1996: pp. 171-180. 

Cook, E.R., B.M. Buckley, and R.D. D'Arrigo, 1996.  Inter-decadal climate oscillations in the Tasmanian sector of the Southern Hemisphere: evidence tree rings over the past three millennia. Climate Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2,000 Years, (pp. 141-160). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Cook, E.R., B.M. Buckley and R.D. D'Arrigo, 1996. Inter-decadal climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere: evidence from Tasmanian tree rings over the past three millennia. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Climate Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2,000 Years. Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy, October 3-7, 1994, in Jones, P.D., Bradley, R.S. and J. Jouzel (eds). NATO ISI Series I41: 109-124.

Cook, E. R., R. J. Francey, B.M. Buckley and R. D'Arrigo. 1996. Recent increases in Tasmanian huon pine ring widths from a subalpine stand: natural climate variability, C02 fertilization, or greenhouse warming? Royal Society of Tasmania 130: 65-72.

Buckley, B.M., M. Barbetti, M. Watanasak, R.D. D'Arrigo, S. Boonchirdchoo, S. Sarutanon, 1995.  Dendrochronological investigations in Thailand. IAWA Journal, Vol. 16 (4), pp. 393-409.

D'Arrigo, R.D., B.M. Buckley, E.R.Cook and W.S. Wagner. 1995. Temperature-sensitive tree-ring width chronologies of pink pine (Halocarpus biformis) from Stewart Island, New Zealand. Palaeo-3, 119: 293-300.

Cook, E.R., T. Bird, M.J. Peterson, M. Barbetti, B.M. Buckley, R.D. D’Arrigo, and R. Francey. 1992.  Climate change over the last millennium in Tasmania reconstructed from tree rings.  The Holocene, 2: 205-217.

Jacoby, G.C., P.L. Williams and B.M. Buckley. 1992.  Tree ring correlation between prehistoric landlsides and abrupt tectonic events in Seatttle, Washington.  Science, 258: 1621-1623.

Cook, E., T. Bird, M. Peterson, M. Barbetti, B.M. Buckley, R. D'Arrigo, R. Francey and P. Tans. 1991. A 1089-year temperature record for Tasmania inferred from tree-rings of subalpine Huon pine. Science, 253: 1266-68.

Book Chapters

Buckley, B.M.  Dating, Dendrochronology.  In, Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology, Vivien Gornitz, Editor (in press)

Buckley, B.M.  Dendroclimatology.  In, Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology, Vivien Gornitz, Editor (in press)