Dave Meko

I apply tree-ring data to study the variability of streamflow, precipitation and snowpack on timescales longer than the instrumental period.  I have one currently active funded project -- with Dr. Connie Woodhouse on applying tree rings and other proxy data for a 2,000-yr perspective on Colorado River flows. Most recently completed projects are application of tree rings to study the hydroclimate of the Yenisei Basin in Siberia, and the Carson-Truckee rivers in western USA. I've long been interested in the statistical methodology of identifying hydrologic signals in tree-ring data, and for many years taught a course in applied time series analysis. I maintain a toolbox of Matlab functions for dendrohydrolgy, and a GitHub repository of R software (ReconAnalog) for exploratory reconstruction of hydroclimatic time series from tree rings. At irregular intervals I co-teach -- with Dr. Ramzi Touchan -- an international tree-ring course that centers on hands-on development and application of tree-ring data to natural resources planning and management. I also contribute each year to teaching the dendroclimatology module of the lab's regular Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC). For more, see my web page.