Philip Higuera, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho, United States

Research field: Environmental Sciences - Ecology
Forest and fire ecology
Paleoecology
Environmental change

Publications

Film (1)
- R. K. Kelly, P. E. Higuera, C. M. Barrett et al. A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment-charcoal records, In Press.
Journal Article (18)
- C Whitlock, P E Higuera, D Mcwethy et al. (2010) Paleoecological perspectives on fire ecology: revisiting the fire regime concept., 6-23. In The Open Ecology Journal 3 (3).
- A A Ali, P E Higuera, Y Bergeron et al. (2009) Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments, 462-468. In Quaternary Research.
- L B Brubaker, P E Higuera, T S Rupp et al. (2009) Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of fire-regime change in boreal forests, 1788-1801. In Ecology 90 (7).
- P E Higuera, P M Anderson, L B Brubaker et al. (2009) Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska, 201-219. In Ecological Monographs 79 (2).
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- J R Marlon, Megan K. Walsh, P J Bartlein et al. (2009) Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America, 2519-2524. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (8).
- M J Power, J Marlon, N Ortiz et al. (2008) Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data, 887-907. In Climate Dynamics 30 (7-8).
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- J R Marlon, P J Bartlein, C Carcaillet et al. (2008) Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia, 697-702. In Nature Geoscience.
- P E Higuera, P M Anderson, L B Brubaker et al. (2008) Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change, e0001744. In PLoS ONE 3 (3).
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- W Sugimura, D G Sprugel, L B Brubaker et al. (2008) Millennial-scale changes in local vegetation and fire regimes on Mt. Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington, USA, using small hollow sediments, 566-575. In Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
- C E Briles, C Whitlock, P J Bartlein et al. (2008) Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA, 159-169. In Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.
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Professional Experience

2009 - Present

Assistant Professor at University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho, United States
Classes taught:
FOR 450: Fire Behavior

Jul 2006 - Jul 2009

Postdoctoral Fellow / Adjunct Faculty at Montana State University - Bozeman
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Classes taught:
GEOG 302: Biogeography
GEOG 303: Weather and Climate
GEOG 430: Mountain Geography
GEOG 505: Advanced Biogeography

Jun 2006 - Aug 2009

Part-time Posdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign
Urbana, Illinois, United States

Education

Sep 2002 - Jun 2006

University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States
PhD

Sep 1999 - Jun 2002

University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States
MS

Aug 1994 - Jun 1998

Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, United States
BA