Katherine Hirschboeck

Associate Professor

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

Institution The University of Arizona

Office West Stadium, Rm. 208 (Map)

Katherine's Homepage

Email katie@ltrr.arizona.edu

Phone (520) 621-6466

Katie Hirschboeck's research involves the climatology and hydroclimatology of extreme events—especially floods, paleofloods, and droughts—which she analyzes from the perspective of their meteorological and climatological causes and their long-term variability. She also uses synoptic climatology and dendroclimatology to link tree-ring responses to anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns. Her work is aimed toward a more explicitly defined understanding of interactions between physical processes operating in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere—specifically climatic variability, flood and drought hydroclimatology, and synoptic dendroclimatology.