Dr. Franco Biondi
Associate Professor

University of Nevada, Reno
Department of Geography
Mailstop 154
Reno, NV 89557
Tel: (775) 784-6921
Fax: (775) 784-1058
Office: Mackay Science Rm. 225
Email: fbiondi@unr.edu

Curriculum Vitæ
Laboratory: DendroLab, Mackay Science Rm 117 and 315; Tel: (775) 784-6348
Personal Website: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/fbiondi/

Research Statement
Dr. Biondi is a geoscientist with experience and interests in climate and forest dynamics, Holocene processes, and environmental change. His long-term scientific goal is to understand climate processes affecting forest growth at multi-annual timescales in current, past, and future environments. He pursues this goal using natural archives of environmental change, such as tree rings. His most recent studies deal with the reconstruction of climate variability from mountain and treeline ecosystems in the Great Basin of North America, Mexico, and Italy. Emphasis is placed on responses to large scale climatic modes, such as El Niño and the North American monsoon. He is also interested in the application of tree-ring records to watershed and landscape management, especially in terms of fire, drought, and species dynamics. His complete curriculum vitae (abbreviated to 1999) is available here.

Research Areas of Interest
Climate-Forest Interactions, Surface Landscape Processes, Quantitative Methods, Dendrochronology.

Professional Preparation
Laurea, Forestry, University of Florence, Italy, 1985
M.S., Watershed Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1987
PhD, Watershed Management and Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1994

Courses Taught (syllabi are available here)
Geography of the World's Environments (GEOG 103, 3 credits)
Field Methods (GEOG 314, 3 credits)
Spatial Analysis in Geography (GEOG 416/616, 3 credits)
Climatology (GEOG 421/621, 3 credits)
Geography of Past Environments (GEOG 437/637, 3 credits)
Special Topics (GEOG 491/691, 1-3 credits)
Advanced Geography - Climatology (GEOG 701R, 3 credits)
Seminar in Advanced Climatology (GEOG 720, 3 credits)
Rural Landscapes of Northern Italy (USAC; GEOG/Architecture 300, 1 credit) 5
Research Rotation II (EECB 702, 3 credits)

Selected Publications (pdf files are available here)

2005 Biondi, F. , T.J. Kozubowski, and A.K. Panorska. A new model for quantifying climate episodes. International Journal of Climatology , 25(9): 1253-1264.

2005 Biondi, F. , P.C. Hartsough, and I. Galindo Estrada. Daily weather and tree growth at the tropical treeline of North America. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 37(1): 16-24.

2004 Biondi, F. and K. Waikul. DENDROCLIM2002: A C++ program for statistical calibration of climate signals in tree-ring chronologies. Computers & Geosciences 30: 303-311

2003 Biondi, F. , I. Galindo Estrada, A. Elizalde Torres, and J.C. Gavilanes. Tree Growth Response to the 1913 Eruption of Volcán de Fuego de Colima, Mexico. Quaternary Research 59(3): 293-299.

2002 Biondi, F. , T.J. Kozubowski, and A.K. Panorska. Stochastic modeling of regime shifts. Climate Research 23: 23-30.

2001 Biondi, F. . A 400-year tree-ring chronology from the tropical treeline of North America. Ambio 30: 162-166.

2001 Biondi, F. , A. Gershunov, and D.R. Cayan. North Pacific decadal climate variability since AD 1661. Journal of Climate (Letters) 14: 5-10.

2000 Biondi, F. Are climate-tree growth relationships changing in north-central Idaho? Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 32: 111-116.

1999 Biondi, F. Comparing tree-ring chronologies and repeated timber inventories as forest monitoring tools. Ecological Applications 9: 216-227.

1999a Biondi, F. and J.E. Fessenden. Radiocarbon analysis of Pinus lagunae tree rings: Implications for tropical dendrochronology. Radiocarbon 41: 241-249.

1999b Biondi, F. and J.E. Fessenden. Response of lodgepole pine growth to CO2 degassing at Mammoth Mountain, California. Ecology 80: 2420-2426.

1999 Biondi, F. , D.L. Perkins, D.R. Cayan, and M.K. Hughes. July temperature during the second millennium reconstructed from Idaho tree rings. Geophysical Research Letters 26: 1445-1448.

1997 Biondi, F. , D.R. Cayan and W.H. Berger. Dendroclimatology of Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana Parry ex Carr.). The American Midland Naturalist 138: 237-251.

1997 Biondi, F. , C.B. Lange, M.K. Hughes and W.H. Berger. Inter-decadal signals during the last millennium (AD 1117-1992) in the varve record of Santa Barbara basin, California. Geophysical Research Letters 24: 193-196.

1996 Biondi, F. Decadal-scale dynamics at the Gus Pearson Natural Area: evidence for inverse (a)symmetric competition? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1397-1406.

1994 Biondi, F. , D.E. Myers and C.C. Avery. Geostatistically modeling stem size and increment in an old-growth forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24: 1354-1368.