Peer-reviewed publications

Baisan, C.H. 1990. Fire history of the Rincon Mountain Wilderness, Saguaro National Monument. Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit Technical Report 29: 1-69.

Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam. 1990. Fire history on a desert mountain range: Rincon Mountain Wilderness, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20:1559-1569.

Brown, P. M., M. K. Hughes, C. H. Baisan, T. W. Swetnam, and A.C. Caprio. 1992. Giant sequoia ring-width chronologies from the central Sierra Nevada, California. Tree-Ring Bulletin 52:1-14.

Swetnam, T. W., B. E. Wickman, H. G. Paul, and C. H. Baisan. 1995. Historical patterns of western spruce budworm and Douglas-fir tussock moth outbreaks in the Northern Blue Mountains, Oregon since A.D. 1700. Research Paper PNW-RP-484. Portland, OR: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p.

Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam. 1997. Interactions of fire regimes and land use in the Central Rio Grande Valley. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Research Paper RM-RP-330, 20p.

Leavitt, S.W. and Baisan, C.H., 2001. Variability of seasonal _13C patterns in Apache pine from southern Arizona, USA. The Palaeobotanist 50(1): 117-123.

Meko, D.M., Therrell, M.D., Baisan, C.H. and Hughes, M.K. 2001. Sacramento River flow reconstructed to A.D. 869 from tree rings. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37: 1029-1039

Meko D. M. and Baisan C. H. 2001. Pilot study of latewood-width of confers as an indicator of variability of summer rainfall in the north American Monsoon region. International J. of Climatology 21, 697-708.

Leavitt, S.W. and Baisan, C.H., 2001. Variability of seasonal _13C patterns in Apache pine from southern Arizona, USA. The Palaeobotanist 50(1): 117-123.

Barton, A. M., T. W. Swetnam and C. H. Baisan. 2001. Arizona pine (Pinus arizonica) stand dynamics: local and regional factors in a fire-prone madrean gallery forest of Southeast, Arizona, USA. Landscape Ecology 16 (4): 351-369.

Brown, P.M., Kaye, M.W., Huckaby, L.S., Baisan, C.H. 2001. Fire history along environmental gradients in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico: influences of local and regional processes. Ecoscience 8(1): 115-126.

Meko, D.M., Woodhouse, C.A., Baisan, C.H., Knight, T., Lukas, J.J., Hughes, M.K., Salzer, M.W. 2007. Medieval drought in the upper Colorado River Basin. Geophysical Research Letters 34(10): L10705.

Allen, C.D., Anderson, R.S., Jass, R.B., Toney, J.L., and Baisan, C.H. 2008. Paired charcoal and tree-ring records of high-frequency fire from two New Mexico bog sites. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17(1) 115–130.

Touchan, R., Anchukaitis, K.J., Meko, D.M., Attalah, S., Baisan, C., Aloui, A. 2008. The long term context for recent drought in northwestern Africa. Geophysical Research Letters, v 35.

Accepted 2009: A Bimillennial-Length Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah. Troy A. Knight, Meko, D.M., and Baisan, C.H.

Book chapters

Swetnam, T. W., C. H. Baisan, and J. M. Kaib. 2001. Forest fire histories in the sky islands of La Frontera. Chapter 7, pages 95-119, In G. L. Webster and C. J. Bahre eds., Changing Plant Life of La Frontera: Observations on Vegetation in the United States/Mexico Borderlands. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan. 2003. Tree-ring reconstructions of fire and climate history in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States. pages 158-195, In: T. T. Veblen, W. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T. W. Swetnam, editors. Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies Vol. 160. Springer, New York.

Swetnam, T.W., Baisan, C.H., Grissino-Mayer, H.D. 2009. Tree-ring perspectives on fire regimes and forest dynamics in mixed-conifer and spruce-fir forests on Mt. Graham. In: H.R. Sanderson and J.L. Koprowski, eds., The Last Refuge of the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel: Ecology of Endangerment. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ: 55-67.

Proceedings and workshops

Hughes, M.K., B.J.Richards, T.W.Swetnam, and C.H.Baisan. 1990. Can a climate record be extracted from Giant Sequoia tree rings? Proceedings of Sixth Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, 1989. pp111-114

Swetnam, T. W., R. Touchan, C. H. Baisan, A. C. Caprio, P. M. Brown.1991. Giant sequoia fire history in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. pages 249-255 In: Yosemite Centennial Symposium: Prospects for the Future, October 13-20, 1990. National Parks Service, Denver Service Center, NPS D-374.

Baisan, C.H. 1992. The historic role of fire in the Rincon Mountains. In: C.P. Stone and E.S. Bellantoni, eds., Proceedings of the Symposium on Research in Saguaro National Monument. National Park Service, Rincon Institute, and Southwest Parks and Monument Association, Tucson, AZ: 159-172.

Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam. 1995. Management implications of historical fire occurrence patterns in remote mountains of Southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico. In: J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, tech. coords., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, Missoula, MT, March 30-April 1, 1993,. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320:153-156.

Grissino-Mayer, H. D., C. H. Baisan, and T. W. Swetnam. 1995. Fire history in the Pinaleno Mountains of Southeastern Arizona: Effects of human-related disturbances. In L. Debano et al. tech. coords., Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands of Southwestern United States and Northwestern New Mexico, September 19-23, 1994, Tucson, Arizona, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-264:399-407.

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan. 1996. Historical fire regime patterns in the Southwestern United States since AD 1700. In C. Allen, editor, Fire effects in Southwestern Forests, Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March 29-31, 1994. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-286:11-32.

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan. 1996. Fire histories of montane forests in the Madrean Borderlands. In P. F. Ffolliott et al. tech. coords., Effects of fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems, A symposium proceedings, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-
GTR-289:15-36.

Danzer, S.R., Baisan, C.H., Swetnam, T.W. 1996. The influence of fire and land-use history on stand dynamics in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona. In: Ffolliott, P.F., DeBano, L.F., Maker, Jr., M.B., Gottfried, G.J., Solis-Garza, G., Edminster, C.B., Neary, D.G., Allen, L.S., and Hamre, R.H., tech. coord., Effects of Fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems: A Symposium Proceedings. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM 289: 265-270.

Meko D. M. and Baisan C. H. 1999. Tree-ring indicators or long-term variability of the North American Monsoon. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, November 1-5, 1999.

Meko D. M., Baisan C. H. and Touchan R. 2001. Low-frequency variations in juniper tree-ring indices. Poster presentation. Eighteenth Annual PACLIM Workshop. CALFED, USGS, NOAA, California Dept. of Water Resources, Pacific Grove, CA, 18/3.

Meko D., Baisan C., Stahle D. and Cleaveland M. 2001. Latewood-width variations and spatial pattern of monsoon precipitation. Invited oral presentation. Eighteenth Annual PACLIM Workshop. CALFED, USGS, NOAA, California Dept. of Water Resources, Pacific Grove, CA, 18/3.

Morino K. A., Meko D. M. and Baisan C. H. 2002. Dendroclimatic Interpretration of Latewood Width of Conifers from the Southwestern United States. 6th International Conference on Dendrochronology, 22-27 August, 2002. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Meko D. M., Baisan C. H. and Morino K. A. 2003. Extracting seasonal precipitation signal from tree-ring width. 2003 PACLIM Meeting, Pacific Grove, California, April, 2003.

Project summary

Projects for which Mr. Baisan has had a central role in planning, executing or administering, and/or supervising the research:

Giant Sequoia Fire History: A Feasibility Study, 7/87 to 6/88, USDI National Park Service, Sequoia National Park, $19,711. (Chris Baisan)

Fire History Study of Rhyolite Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument, 9/87 to 9/88, USDI National Park Service, Southern Arizona Group Office, $9,988. (Chris Baisan)

Dating of Fire History Specimens from Bandelier National Monument, 3/88 to 9/88, USDI National Park Service, Bandelier NM, $4,500. (Chris Baisan)

Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Giant Sequoia Fire Regimes, 7/88 to 12/91, USDI National Park Service, Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite NPs, $195,260. (Chris Baisan, Tony Caprio, Ramzi Touchan)

Tree-Ring Dating of Fire Scarred White Bark Pine from Yellowstone, 4/89 to 6/89, University of Idaho, $2,000. (Chris Baisan)

Tree-Ring Dating of Fire Scarred Ponderosa Pine from Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona, 10/89 to 3/90, USDI National Park Service, Southern Arizona Group Office, $2,700. (Chris Baisan)

Reconstruction of Fire and Flood History in Rhyolite Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona, 10/89 to 12/90, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, $5,048. (Chris Baisan)

Assessment of Phenological Growth Patterns in Conifer Species in Chiricahua National Monu-
ment, Arizona, 10/90 to 12/93, Southwest Parks and Mon. Assoc, $16,313. (Co-PI. Chris Baisan)

Fire history and climatology in the southern and central Sierra Nevada, 6/91 to 5/97, National Park Service, Global Change Program, $302,887. (Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino)

Radial Growth Response of Giant Sequoia to High Intensity Fire, 1/92 to 12/93, State of California, Department of Forestry, $13,284. (Tony Caprio, Linda Mutch, Chris Baisan)

Fire history of Desert-Island Mountain Ranges in the Mexican Borderlands Region, 3/92 to 12/94, The Nature Conservancy, $56,276. (Chris Baisan)

Climatic variation in the Sonoran desert from instrumental climate data and tree rings, 3/93 to 3/98, National Biological Service and National Park Service, $215,000. (Co-PI, David Meko, Chris Baisan)

Fire History of the Calaveras Giant Sequoia Groves, State of California, State Parks Department, 7/93 to 12/98, $65,000. (Chris Baisan)

Dendrochronology/Paleoenvironmental research at Bandelier National Monument, 7/93 to 6/94, National Park Service, $7,400. (Craig Allen, Chris Baisan)

A millennial length reconstruction of climate for the middle Rio Grande Basin from tree rings, 6/94 to 5/98, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, $20,000. (Co-PI, enri Grissino-Mayer, Chris Baisan)

Regional dendroecology research, 9/94 to 9/99, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, $217,810. (Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino, Rena Ann Abolt, Margot Wilkinson, Shelly Danzer, Dan Ryerson)

Fire regime reconstruction in the Southwestern borderlands, 9/94 to 8/97, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, $78,849. (Mark Kaib, Chris Baisan)

Expanded fire regime studies in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, 8/95 to 1/97, National Biological Service, $35,692. (Craig Allen, Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino)

A tree-ring reconstruction of pandora moth population history in central and southern Oregon, 9/95 to 12/97, US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, $45,800. (Jim Speer, Malcolm Hughes, Gregg Garfin, Andy Youngblood, Chris Baisan)

Expanded fire history in Chiricahua National Monument, 8/96 to 12/98, National Park Service, Southern Arizona Group Office, $29,000. (Co-PI, Chris Baisan, Shelly Danzer)

Fire regime assessment for Coronado National Memorial, 8/96 to 12/98, National Park Service, Southern Arizona Group Office, $12,500. (Chris Baisan, Kiyomi Morino)

Climate change and the stability of sky-island conifer populations in the Sonoran desert, 8/98 to 12/99, US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Global Change program (Co-PI, Dave Meko, June Kirkby, Chris Baisan), $19,944.

Crown fire histories, bog fire scar histories and drought-induced ecotone shifts, 4/99-12/04, $245,621, US Geological Survey, National Biological Service, and Global Change Program. PI's: Thomas Swetnam and Chris Baisan (collaborations with Dr. Craig Allen and Dr. Scott Anderson)

Sierra Nevada forest dynamics, 5/99 to 4/04, $165,056, US Geological Survey, National Biological Service, Global Change Program. PI's Thomas Swetnam and Chris Baisan

Comparing Fire scar analysis, fire atlas records and fire simulations in the Saguaro-Rincon Mountains Wilderness, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, US Forest Service, $91,961, 09/01-12/05

Multi-century reconstruction of chaparral fire history using fire-scarred bigcone Douglas-fir in three southern California National Forests. (PI: T.W. Swetnam; Co-PIs Keith Lombardo, Chris Baisan, and Mark Borchert), USDA Forest Service, Interagency Joint Fire Science Program, $130,000, 10/06-09/09.