Research Interests: fire history, paleoecology, global change, geographic information systems

• Global long-term environmental change, especially fire history
• Interactions between climate, vegetation and fire since the Last Glacial Maximum 21,000 years ago
• Paleodata syntheses and meta-analyses
• Data-model comparisons (http://www.bridge.bris.ac.uk/charcoal)

Publications

Power, M.J., Marlon, J., Ortiz, N.,  Bartlein, P.J., Harrison, S.P., Mayle, F.E.,  Ballouche, A., Bradshaw, R., Carcaillet, C., Cordova, C., Mooney, S., Moreno, P., Prentice, I.C., Thonicke, K., Tinner, W., Whitlock, C., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Anderson, R.S., Beer, R., Behling, H., Briles, C., Brown, K.J., Brunelle A, Bush, M., Camill, P, Chu, G.Q., Clark, J., Colombaroli, D., Connor, S., Daniels, M., Daniau, A.-L., Dodson, J., Doughty, E., Edwards, M.E., Fisinger, W., Foster, D., Frechette J., Gaillard, M.-J., Gil-Romera, G. Gavin, D.G., Gobet, E., Haberle, S., Hallett, D.J., Higuera, P., Hope, G., Horn, S., Impagliazzo, S., Inoue, J., Kaltenrieder, P., Kennedy, L., Kong, Z.C., Larsen, C., Long, C.J., Lynch, J., Lynch, B., McGlone, M., Meeks, S., Mensing, S., Meyer, G., Minckley, T., Mohr, J., Nelson, D., New, J., Newnham, R., Noti, R., Oswald, W., Pierce, J., Richard, P.J.H., Rowe, C., Sanchez Goñi, M.F., Shuman, B.J., Takahara, H., Toney, J., Turney, C.., Umbanhower, C., Vandergoes, M., Vanniere, B., Vescovi, E., Walsh, M., Wang, X., Williams, N., Wilmshurst, J., Zhang , J.H. (2008). Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30, 887-987. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0334-x.

Whitlock, C., Marlon, J., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Long, C., Bartlein, P.J. (2008). Long-term relations between fire, fuel, and climate in the northwestern U.S. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17(1) 72–83.

Whitlock, C., Bianchi, M.M., Bartlein, P.J., Marlon, J., Walsh, M., and McCoy, N. (2006). Postglacial vegetation, climate, and fire history along the east side of the Andes (lat 41-42 S), Argentina. Quaternary Research, 66(2), 187-201.

Marlon, J., Bartlein, P.J., and Whitlock, C. (2006). Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern United States during the Holocene.  The Holocene 16(8), 1059-1071.

Whitlock, C., Shafer, S.L., and Marlon, J. (2003). The Role of Climate and Vegetation Change in Shaping Past and Future Fire Regimes in the Northwestern U.S. and the Implications for Ecosystem Management. Forest Ecology and Management 178, pp. 5-21.