Henri Grissino-mayer
Professor
Department of Geography
Tennessee State University
United States of America
Biography
He is the Director of the department’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science which has a well-respected international reputation for research, teaching, and service. In recent years, he and his students have appeared in television documentaries and news stories shown on CNN International, the History Channel, BBC Television, the Discovery Channel, the Investigation Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, the Weather Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Court TV, and many local stations. He teaches Geography 131 and upper level courses in natural hazards, dendrochronology, global change, and climate change.
Research Interest
dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, biogeography, Holocene environments, geographic thought
Publications
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Grissino Mayer HD, Swetnam TW. Century scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest. The Holocene. 2000 Feb;10(2):213-20.
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Williams AP, Allen CD, Macalady AK, Griffin D, Woodhouse CA, Meko DM, Swetnam TW, Rauscher SA, Seager R, Grissino-Mayer HD, Dean JS. Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality. Nature climate change. 2013 Mar 1;3(3):292.
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Grissino-Mayer HD. Evaluating crossdating accuracy: a manual and tutorial for the computer program COFECHA. Tree-ring research. 2001 Jan 1.
