Connie Woodhouse

Regents Professor Emerita, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

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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.

Publications

Woodhouse, C. A., Pederson, G. T., Morino, K., McAfee, S., & McCabe, G. J. (2016). Increasing influence of air temperature on upper Colorado River streamflow. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(5), 2174–2181. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL067613

Littell, J., Pederson, G. T., Gray, S., Tjoelker, M., Hamlet, A., & Woodhouse, C. A.. (2016). Reconstructions of Columbia River streamflow from tree ring chronologies in the Pacific Northwest, USA. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 52(5), 1121-1141. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12442

Routson, C., Overpeck, J., Woodhouse, C. A., & Kenney, W. (2016). Three Millennia of Southwestern North American Dustiness and Future Implications. PLOS ONE, 11(2), e0149573. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149573

Ciancarelli, B., Castro, C. L., Woodhouse, C. A., Dominguez, F., Chang, H.-I., Carrillo, C., & Griffin, D. (2014). Dominant patterns of US warm season precipitation variability in a fine resolution observational record, with focus on the southwest. International Journal of Climatology, 34(3), 687-707. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3716

Ferguson, D. B., Rice, J., & Woodhouse, C. A.. (2014). Linking Environmental Research and Practice: Lessons from the Integration of Climate Science and Water Management in the Western United States. Climate Assessment for the Southwest, University of Arizona.

Meko, D. M., Touchan, R., Diaz, J. V., Griffin, D., Woodhouse, C. A., Castro, C., Carillo, C., & Leavitt, S. (2013). Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, cool-season precipitation reconstructed from earlywood width of Abies concolor tree rings. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118(4), 1660-1673. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JG002408

Ault, T. R., Cole, J. E., Overpeck, J. T., Pederson, G. T., George, S. S., Otto-Bliesner, B., Woodhouse, C. A., & Deser, C. (2013). The Continuum of Hydroclimate Variability in Western North America during the Last Millennium. Journal of Climate, 26(16), 5863-5878. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00732.1

Faulstich, H., Woodhouse, C. A., & Griffin, D. (2012). Reconstructed cool- and warm-season precipitation over the tribal lands of northeastern Arizona. Climatic Change, 118(2), 457-468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0626-y

Routson, C. C., Woodhouse, C. A., & Overpeck, J. T. (2011). Second century megadrought in the Rio Grande headwaters, Colorado: How unusual was medieval drought?. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(22). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050015

Feldman, D., Jacobs, K., Garfin, G. M., Georgakakos, A., Morehouse, B. J., Restrepo, P., Webb, R., Yarnal, B., Basketfield, D., Hartmann, H., Kochendorfer, J., Rosenzweig, C., Sale, M., Udall, B., & Woodhouse, C. A.. (2008). Making Decision-Support Information Useful, Useable, and Responsive to Decision-Maker Needs. In Decision Support Experiments and Evaluations using Seasonal-to-Interannual Forecasts and Observational Data: A Focus on Water Resources. U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.

Lukas, J., & Woodhouse, C. A.. (2007). How tree rings can help reconstruct streamflow. Southwest Climate Outlook, 6, 3-5.

Woodhouse, C. A., & Lukas, J. (2006). Drought, Tree Rings, and Water Resource Management in Colorado. 31, 1-14.

Cook, E. R., Woodhouse, C. A., Eakin, C., Meko, D. M., & Stahle, D. W. (2004). Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States. Science, 306(5698), 1015-1018. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1102586

Projects

Name	Project type	Project Dates
Achieving Scientific Literacy in the Classroom: Climate Science and Law Curriculum	Climate Services	2014 - 2015
Disentangling the Influence of Antecedent Temperature and Soil Moisture on Colorado River Water Resources	Research	2013
Treeflow - Streamflow Reconstructions from Tree Rings	Climate Services	2013
CLIMAS Project and Program Evaluation	Research	2012
Dendrochronology in the Tribal Lands of Northeast Arizona	Research	2010 - 2012