Christopher H Baisan

Biographic Data

ID4053548
NAMEChristopher H Baisan
GIVEN NAMESChristopher H
FAMILY NAMEBaisan
SIGNATUREBAISAN C H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0002-7362-1591
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia

    Open AccessErica R Bigio, Thomas W Swetnam et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Every year, millions of hectares burn across Siberia, driven by a combination of warming temperatures, regional drought and human-caused ignitions. Dendrochronology provides a long-term context to evaluate recent trends in fire activity and interpret the relative influence of humans and climate drivers on fire regimes. We developed a 400 year record of fire-scarred trees from 17 sites in pine-dominated forests located southeast of Lake Baikal. Si…

  • Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

    Open AccessChristopher H Guiterman, Christopher H Baisan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2020Cited by: 3References: 20

    The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the monumental great house during the peak of the Chaco Phenomenon (AD 850-1140). The ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) log was discovered in 1924, and since then, it has been included in 'birth' and 'life' narratives of Pueblo Bonito, although these ideas have not been rigorously tested. We evaluate three potential growth origi…

  • Dating the Methuselah Walk Bristlecone Pine Floating Chronologies

    Matthew W Salzer, Charlotte L Pearson et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2019

    Two floating, ring-width chronologies predate the long bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) absolutely-dated, ring-width chronology from the Methuselah Walk (MWK) site in the White Mountains of California. The two non-overlapping floating chronologies were derived from samples that crossdate internally but are temporally unconnected to each other and to the nearly 9000-year, ring-width sequence that is crossdated to the calendar year. We used radioc…

  • Dendrochronology at the Mission San Xavier del Bac convento (Tucson, Arizona, USA)

    Open AccessHannah Herrick, Christopher H BaisanARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2019References: 5

  • A Bimillennial-Length Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah

    Open AccessTroy A Knight, David M Meko et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2010

    Despite the extensive network of moisture-sensitive tree-ring chronologies in western North America, relatively few are long enough to document climatic variability before and during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) ca. AD 800-1300. We developed a 2300-yr tree-ring chronology extending to 323 BC utilizing live and remnant Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) from the Tavaputs Plateau in northeastern Utah. A resulting regression model accounts …

  • A comparison and integration of tree-ring and alluvial records of fire history at the Missionary Ridge Fire, Durango, Colorado, USA

    Open AccessErica R Bigio, Erica Bigio et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2010References: 3

    We used tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods to reconstruct past fire regimes for a mixed conifer forest within a 1 km 2 drainage basin which was severely burned by a wildfire near Durango, Colorado. Post-fire debris flow events incised the valley-filling alluvial sediments in the lower basin, and created exposures of fire-related of deposits of late-Holocene age. Tree-ring and alluvial sediment fire history records were created separately, an…