Humboldt State University

Rosemary Sherriff

Contact
E-mail: sherriff@humboldt.edu
Phone: (707) 826-4119
Office: Founders Hall 127
Curriculum Vitae

Research & Teaching
Biogeography, landscape ecology, forest disturbances (wildfire, insect outbreaks), dendroecology, geospatial analysis.

Selected Publications:

• Gartner, M.H., T.T. Veblen, R.L. Sherriff, and T.L. Schoennagel. 2012. Proximity to grasslands influences fire frequency and sensitivity to climate variability in Pinus ponderosa forests of the Colorado Front Range. International Journal of Wildland Fire 21: 562-571.
• Miller, A.E., R.L. Sherriff, and E.E. Berg. 2012. Effect of the Novarupta (1912) eruption on forests of south-central Alaska as inferred from tree-ring records. Alaska Park Science 11: 74-77.
• Cocking, M.I., J.M. Varner, and R.L. Sherriff. 2012. California black oak responses to fire severity and native conifer encroachment in the Klamath Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 270: 25-34.
• Sherriff, R.L., E. E. Berg and A.E. Miller. 2011. Effects of interannual and multidecadal climate variability on spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) activity in south-central and southwest Alaska. Ecology 92: 1459-70.
• Schoennagel, T.L., R.L. Sherriff, and T.T. Veblen. 2011. Fire history and tree recruitment in the upper montane zone of the Colorado Front Range: implications for forest restoration. Ecological Applications 21: 2210-2222.
• Platt, R.W., T.L. Schoennagal, T.T. Veblen, and R.L. Sherriff. 2011. Modeling wildfire potential in residential parcels: a case study of the Colorado Front Range. Landscape & Urban Planning 102: 117-126.
• Keith, R.P., T.T. Veblen, T.L. Schoennagel, and R.L. Sherriff. 2010. Understory vegetation indicates historic fire regimes in ponderosa pine-dominated ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 488-499.
• Sherriff, R.L. and T.T. Veblen. 2008. Variability in fire-climate relationships in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17: 50-59.
• Platt, R.W., T.T. Veblen and R. L. Sherriff. 2008. A scenario-based evaluation of forest management goals in the wildland-urban interface. Natural Hazards Review 9: 199-208.
• Sherriff, R.L. and T.T. Veblen. 2007. A spatially-explicit reconstruction of fire regime types in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range. Ecosystems 10: 311-323.
• Baker, W.L., T.T. Veblen and R.L. Sherriff. 2007. Fire, fuels, and restoration of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests in the Rocky Mountains, USA. Journal of Biogeography 34: 251-269.
• Sherriff, R.L. and T.T. Veblen. 2006. Ecological effects of changes in fire regimes in Pinus ponderosa ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 205-218.
• Platt, R.W., T.T. Veblen and R.L. Sherriff. 2006. Mapping the compatibility of wildfire mitigation and ecological restoration in the wildland-urban interface of Colorado. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96: 455-470.
• Hicke, J.A., R.L. Sherriff, T.T. Veblen and G.P. Asner. 2004. Carbon accumulation in Colorado ponderosa pine stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 1283-1295.
• Romme, W.H., T.T. Veblen, M.R. Kaufmann, R. Sherriff, and C.M. Regan. 2003. Ecological Effects of the Hayman Fire Part 1: Historical (Pre-1860) and current (1860-2002) Fire Regimes. Hayman Fire Case Study Analysis. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-114.
• Romme, W.H., MR. Kaufmann, R. Sherriff and C.M. Regan. 2003. Ecological Effects of the Hayman Fire Part 2: Historical (Pre-1860) and current (1860-2002)Forest and Landscape Structure. Hayman Fire Case Study Analysis. U.S.D.A. Forest Service General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-114.
• Sherriff, R.L., T.T. Veblen and J.S. Sibold. 2001. Fire history in high elevation subalpine forests in the Colorado Front Range. Ecoscience 8 (3): 369-380.