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Neil Pederson
climate history
disturbance ecology
environmental history
forest ecology
forest history
tree-rings
Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Biology and Paleo Environment
Tree Ring Lab
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
Phone:
(845) 365-8392
Fax:
(845) 365-8150
adk@ldeo.columbia.edu
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Fields of interest:
Terrestrial Ecosystems, Dendrochronology, Dendroclimatology, Forest Ecosystems, Disturbance Ecology
Education
List of degrees from highest to lowest:
Ph.D.
Columbia University
08/2005
MS
Auburn University
08/1994
BS
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
12/1990
AS
State University of New York Morrisville Ag & Tech
05/1988
Lamont Projects:
Fire, Climate, and Forest History in Mongolia
Tree Ring Research Laboratory
Research Blogs:
Tree Rings, Ecology and Culture in Mongolia
The Broadleaf Papers
Mongolian Climate, Ecology & Culture
Referenced in the Following News Items:
Climate and Conquest: How Did Genghis Khan Rise?
Key Talks from the American Geophysical Union's Annual Meeting
American Geophysical Union Dec. 3-7: Key Talks From the Earth Institute
Signals of Past Say Big Droughts Can Hit U.S. East
Featured in the Following Videos:
Ancient Trees Reveal Environmental Histories
A Natural History of the Palisades
Selected Publications:
Temperature and precipitation in Mongolia based on dendroclimatic investigations
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Jacoby, G.; Pederson, N.; D'Arrigo, R.
, Chinese Science Bulletin, Jul, Volume 48, Issue 14, p.1474-1479, (2003), Doi 10.1360/02wd0390
1738 years of Mongolian temperature variability inferred from a tree-ring width chronology of Siberian pine
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D'Arrigo, R.; Jacoby, G.; Frank, D.; Pederson, N.; Cook, E.; Buckley, B.; Nachin, B.; Mijiddorj, R.; Dugarjav, C.
, Geophysical Research Letters, Feb 1, Volume 28, Issue 3, p.543-546, (2001)
Hydrometeorological reconstructions for northeastern Mongolia derived from tree rings: 1651-1995
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Pederson, N.; Jacoby, G. C.; D'Arrigo, R. D.; Cook, E. R.; Buckley, B. M.; Dugarjav, C.; Mijiddorj, R.
, Journal of Climate, Volume 14, Issue 5, p.872-881, (2001)
Spatial response to major volcanic events in or about AD 536, 934 and 1258: Frost rings and other dendrochronological evidence from Mongolia and northern Siberia: Comment on R. B. Stothers, 'Volcanic dry fogs, climate cooling, and plague pandemics in Euro
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D'Arrigo, R.; Frank, D.; Jacoby, G.; Pederson, N.
, Climatic Change, Apr, Volume 49, Issue 1-2, p.239-246, (2001)
Monogolian tree-rings, temperature sensitivity and reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperature
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D'Arrigo, R.; Jacoby, G.; Pederson, N.; Frank, D.; Buckley, B.; Nachin, B.; Mijiddorj, R.; Dugarjav, C.
, Holocene, Nov, Volume 10, Issue 6, p.669-672, (2000)
Temperature and precipitation in Mongolia based on dendroclimatic investigations
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Jacoby, G.; D'Arrigo, R.; Pederson, N.; Buckley, B.; Dugarjav, C.; Mijiddorj, R.
, Iawa Journal, Volume 20, Issue 3, p.339-350, (1999)