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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:23:06.807107'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/greg-pederson
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - Greg is affiliate faculty with the Earth Sciences department and the Institute
     on Ecosystems (IoE) at Montana State University.
   education:
   - Ph.D. Watershed Management & Ecohydrology. 2010. University of Arizona, School
     of Natural Resources.
   - M.S. Environmental Science. 2004. Montana State University
   - B.S. Ecology and Evolution in Botany & Zoology. 2000. Michigan State University
   email: gpederson@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Climate change
   - Climate variability
   - Dendrochronology
   - Dendroclimatology
   - Dendrogeomorphology
   - Paleoclimate
   - Paleoecology
   - Paleohydrology
   - Water resources
   - Drought
   - Snow
   - Fire
   - Phenology
   - Hydroclimate
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Greg Pederson is a research scientist working primarily on the role of climate
     variability in driving changes in water resources, and other biological and
     physical components of mountainous ecosystems in western North America.
   name: Greg Pederson, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-6014-1425
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/norock
   organization_name: Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
   personal_statement: 'Research InterestsOf particular interest is the magnitude
     of low-frequency hydroclimatic variability and its implications for drought
     risk, as well as the climatic drivers associated with observed changes in mountain
     snowpack, streamflow, glaciers, and forest disturbance events. Understanding
     the time intervals and spatial scales over which these processes operate requires
     a long-term perspective, and for that I rely on proxy records primarily from
     tree-ring and lake sediments along with instrumental and modeled climate records.  Recent
     and ongoing studies have addressed the susceptibility of natural resources to
     climate variability and change, and sought to apply both the modern and paleoclimatic
     records to present day resource management problems.Current Research Projects
     Include:Drivers of Drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin [DOI Southwestern
     CSC]Multi-century perspectives on current and future streamflow in the Missouri
     River Basin [NSF P2C2]Reconstructions of Columbia River flow from winter and
     summer precipitation sensitive proxies in the Northwestern U.S. with implications
     for 21st century flow [CSC and CLU]A Broader view of North American climate
     over the past two millennia: Synthesizing paleoclimate records from diverse
     archives [USGS Powell Center]Holocene climate variability in Alaska from relict
     wood [DOI Alaska CSC]Holocene climates of the Northern Rockies from relict wood
     emerging from ice patches [CLU]Megadroughts and uncertainty in Upper Colorado
     River flow low-frequency variability [CLU]'
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Ecologist