Connie Woodhouse

Regents Professor Emerita, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
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conniew1@arizona.edu

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Connie's research concerns the climatology of western North America, including paleoclimatic reconstructions of past climate and hydrologic conditions from tree rings, the analysis of past and current climate, and circulation features that influence climate, particularly at decadal and longer time scales. Her work has ranged from the reconstruction and analysis of drought in the western Great Plains, to temperature variability over the past eight centuries in western North America, to the development of streamflow reconstructions for major rivers in Colorado and California watersheds. A recent emphasis has been on applied research to assist water resource managers in using reconstructions of past hydroclimatic variability in drought planning and water resource management.

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Williams, A. P., Anchukaitis, K. J., Woodhouse, C. A., Meko, D. M., Cook, B. I., Bolles, K., & Cook, E. R. (2021). Tree Rings and Observations Suggest No Stable Cycles in Sierra Nevada Cool‐Season Precipitation. Water Resources Research, 57(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028599
Stahle, D. W., Cook, E. R., Burnette, D. J., Torbenson, M. C. A., Howard, I. M., Griffin, D., Diaz, J. V., Cook, B. I., Williams, A. P., Watson, E., Sauchyn, D. J., Pederson, N., Woodhouse, C. A., Pederson, G. T., Meko, D., Coulthard, B., & Crawford, C. J. (2020). Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America. Journal of Climate, 33(8), 3173–3195. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0270.1
Pendergrass, A. G., Meehl, G. A., Pulwarty, R., Hobbins, M., Hoell, A., AghaKouchak, A., Bonfils, C. J. W., Gallant, A. J. E., Hoerling, M., Hoffmann, D., Kaatz, L., Lehner, F., Llewellyn, D., Mote, P., Neale, R. B., Overpeck, J. T., Sheffield, A., Stahl, K., Svoboda, M., … Woodhouse, C. A.. (2020). Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction. Nature Climate Change, 10(3), 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0709-0
Martin, J. T., Pederson, G. T., Woodhouse, C. A., Cook, E. R., McCabe, G. J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Wise, E. K., Erger, P. J., Dolan, L., McGuire, M., Gangopadhyay, S., Chase, K. J., Littell, J. S., Gray, S. T., George, S. S., Friedman, J. M., Sauchyn, D. J., St-Jacques, J.-M., & King, J. (2020). Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11328–11336. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916208117
Woodhouse, C. A., Smith, R. M., McAfee, S. A., Pederson, G. T., McCabe, G. J., Miller, W. P., & Csank, A. (2020). Upper Colorado River Basin 20th century droughts under 21st century warming: Plausible scenarios for the future. Climate Services, 21, 100206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2020.100206
Martin, J. T., Pederson, G. T., Woodhouse, C. A., Cook, E. R., McCabe, G. J., Wise, E. K., Erger, P., Dolan, L., McGuire, M., Gangopadhyay, S., Chase, K., Littell, J. S., Gray, S. T., George, S. S., Friedman, J., Sauchyn, D., Jacques, J. S., & King, J. (2019). 1200 years of Upper Missouri River streamflow reconstructed from tree rings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 224, 105971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105971
Arizpe, A. H., Falk, D. A., Woodhouse, C. A., & Swetnam, T. W. (2019). Widespread fire years in the US–Mexico Sky Islands are contingent on both winter and monsoon precipitation. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 29(12), 1072. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19181
Meko, D. M., Woodhouse, C. A., & Bigio, E. R. (2017). University of Arizona Southern California Tree-Ring Study.
Woodhouse, C. A., Meko, D. M., Bigio, E. R., & Frederick, S. (2017). Using Tree-Ring Records for Understanding Droughts in a Long-Term Context: A Guidebook for the California Department of Water Resources.