Kurt Kipfmueller

Department Affiliations

B.S.: Geography and Earth Science, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 1993.
M.A.: Geography, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 1997.
Ph.D.: Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2003.

"Spatial Ecology of Pre-EuroAmerican Fires in a Southern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forest Landscape.": Kipfmueller, Kurt, W. L. Baker, The Professional Geographer, 53 248-262, 2001.
"Using Dendrochronology to Reconstruct the History of Ecosystems" in The Historical Ecology Handbook, ed. D. Egan and E. Howell: Kipfmueller, Kurt, T.W. Swetnam, Washington, DC: Island Press, The Historical Ecology Handbook, 199-228, 2001.
Reconstructed temperature and precipitation on a millennial timescale from tree-rings in the Southern Colorado Plateau, USA: Kipfmueller, Kurt, Matthew W. Salzer, Climatic Change, 70 465-487, 2004.
Complexity of successional pathways in subalpine forests of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, USA: Kipfmueller, Kurt, John A. Kupfer, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95 495-510, 2005.
Reconstructed temperature in a northern Rocky Mountains Wilderness: Kipfmueller, Kurt, Quaternary Research, 70 173-187, 2008.

Reconstructing climate from tree-rings in northern Minnesota: I am collecting tree ring samples from several conifer species found in the northern portions of Minnesota including the Boundary Waters., Summer 2005 - Summer 2007
Fire history and age structure analysis in the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge: This work is examining the fire history and forest compositional patterns in a small remnant oak savanna. The work is supported by the USFWS., Summer 2006 - Summer 2007