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Rosemary Sherriff

Assistant Professor

Contact information:

Office: Founders Hall 129
Office Hours: MWF 10:00-11:00, W 1:00-2:00
Phone: (707) 826-4119
E-mail: sherriff@humboldt.edu

Personal Statement:

My interests focus on biogeographical patterns of vegetation and disturbance history in relation to climate variability and natural and human-induced causes.  As a biogeographer, my research bridges multiple temporal and spatial scales.  I am particularly interested in questions that address the causes and implications of vegetation patterns and disturbance regimes that are relevant to current and future land-use policy, ecosystem management, and climate change in western North America.   

Specialty Area:

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

Courses Taught:

Introductory Physical Geography (and Depth Experience)

Biogeography

Landscape Ecology

Introductory and Advanced Techniques in GIS

Interpretation of Geographic Data

Quantitative Techniques in Geography

Education/degrees:

PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder – Geography

MA, University of Colorado, Boulder – Geography

BS, University of Oregon – Geography

Current Research Projects:

• Fire risk and ecological integrity in the wildland-urban interface of the Colorado Front Range

• Interactions of regionally widespread spruce beetle outbreaks and climate variability in south-central Alaska

• Historic spruce beetle and fire interactions in subalpine forests of southern and central Utah

 Publications:

Keith, R.P., T.T. Veblen, T.L. Schoennagel and R.L. Sherriff.  In press. Understory vegetation indicates historic fire regimes in ponderosa pine-dominated ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Vegetation Science.

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.

Sherriff, R.L. 2008. Writing journal articles. in Publishing in Geography: A Guide for New Researchers. Eds. A. Blunt and C. Souch. Published by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. p. 10-11.

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., M.R. Kaufmann, T.T. Veblen, 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. Écoscience 8(3): 369-380.

Selected Reports

Sherriff, R.L. 2009. Tree-ring reconstruction of historic insect outbreaks in Lake Clark and Katmai National Park and Preserves. Final Technical Report. USDI National Park Service, Anchorage, AK. 43 pp.

Whitlock, C. and R. Sherriff. 1997.  A 14,000-yr fire history from the mixed conifer forest of Southern Yellowstone National Park.  A final report to the University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center and Yellowstone National Park.