Research Interests: climate change, fire history, paleoecology

• Global long-term environmental change
• Biomass burning and fire history
• Paleodata syntheses, meta-analyses & data-model comparisons

Positions:

• North American Coordinator for the Global Palaeofire Working Group (GPWG)
• Liaison between the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD) and the GPWG
• Research Assistant for the DISCCRS ("discourse") young scientist's climate change network

Publications

Power, M. J., Marlon, J. R., Bartlein, P. J., Harrison, S. P. (submitted). Fire History and the Global Charcoal Database: a new tool for hypothesis testing and data exploration.

Marlon, J. R., P. J. Bartlein, M. K. Walsh, S. P. Harrison, K. J. Brown, M. E. Edwards, P. E. Higuera, M. J. Power, R. S. Anderson, C. Briles, A. Brunelle, C. Carcaillet, M. Daniels, F. S. Hu, M. Lavoie, C. Long, T. Minckley, P. J. H. Richard, A.C. Scott, D. S. Shafer, W. Tinner, C. E. Jr. Umbanhowar, C. Whitlock, (2009). Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(8), 2519-2524.

  BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7854348.stm

Marlon, J. R., P. J. Bartlein, C. Carcaillet, D. G. Gavin, S. P. Harrison, P. E. Higuera, F. Joos, M. J. Power, I. C. Prentice (2008). Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience 1, 697-701.

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.