UA Tree-Ring Lab Director Testifies on Climate Change, Wildfires

Swetnam Testifying

Thomas Swetnam testifies before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Swetnam testifying at hearing considering scientific assessments of the impact of global climate change on wildfire activity in the United States.

By University Communications September 25, 2007

Thomas W. Swetnam, director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and professor of dendrochronology at The University of Arizona, will testify today before the U.S. Senate's Committee on Energy and Natural Resources about the impacts of climate change on wildfire activity in the U.S.

The hearing will be held in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. at noon Tucson time/3 p.m. Eastern time.

The hearing will be Webcast at: http://energy.senate.gov/public.

All speakers' testimonies will be posted to the Web site shortly after the hearing concludes.

Professor Swetnam is a world-renown expert on forests and wildfires in the western U.S, particularly the connections between climate and fires.

Other witnesses at the hearing include Ann Bartuska, deputy chief for research and development for the U.S. Forest Service, and John Helms, professor emeritus, University of California-Berkeley.

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