David W. Stahle
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Distinguished Professor
Also affiliated: United States Geological Survey (2019); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2004); University of Arizona (2004); Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1998); Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (2003–2015); William & Mary (1998); University of Arkansas System (2003); Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias (2024); NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2004); Columbia University (2003); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2002–2014)
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David W. Stahle, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas, researches long-term climate variability and its impacts, with a particular focus on drought reconstructions. His work utilizes dendroclimatology, the study of tree rings, to reconstruct past climate conditions. He has investigated aridity changes in the Western United States and developed drought reconstructions for the continental United States. Stahle's research has examined the causes and consequences of North American drought and has documented megadroughts in the 16th century across North America and specifically in Mexico, linking them to historical events such as disease outbreaks and population decline.
His federally funded research includes work on precipitation and streamflow reconstruction in the Amazon River Basin and an investigation into medieval to modern climate variability and change in the Great Plains, both supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Stahle holds an h-index of 54 and has authored 176 publications with over 12,340 citations. His collaborators at the University of Arkansas include Ian M. Howard, Daniela Granato‐Souza, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, and Jon P.S. Webb.
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- h-index: 55
- Publications: 207
- Citations: 12,461
Positions
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Distinguished Professor 2010–presentUniversity of Arkansas Department of Geosciences ORCID
Selected Publications
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Hydroclimatic Variability Inferred from Douglas-Fir Tree Rings in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, Central Mexico (2026)
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Decoupled carbon assimilation and growth responses to aridity in temperate deciduous oaks (2026)
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Old-Growth Forests at the Sugarloaf Mountains-Midland Peak Natural Area, Arkansas (2026)
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Ecuadendro 2025: The 1st Ecuadorian Dendrochronology Conference (2025)
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Disruption of Drought Teleconnections Between ENSO‐Influenced Regions Around 1700 CE (2025)
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The 1991 California “Miracle March”: Precipitation Myth or Miracle? (2025)
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Lack of cold temperatures is driving recent high-summer warming in the southern Rocky Mountains (2025)
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Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico (2024)
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Isotopic clumping in wood as a proxy for photorespiration in trees (2023)
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Drought and Flood Extremes on the Amazon River and in Northeast Brazil, 1790–1900 (2023)
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The Flood Risk and Water Supply Implications of Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions in Northern California (2023)
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A 440-Year Reconstruction of Heavy Precipitation in California from Blue Oak Tree Rings (2023)
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A 440-Year Reconstruction of Heavy Precipitation in California from Blue Oak Tree Rings (2022)
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A 440-Year Reconstruction of Heavy Precipitation in California from Blue Oak Tree Rings (2022)
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Plant photorespiration reconstructed with isotopic clumping in wood methoxyl groups (2022)
Federal Grants 2 $474,515 total
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- Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States*
- Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation
- Tree‐ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America
- Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico
- The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts
Showing 5 of 39 shared publications
- Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation
- Tree‐ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America
- Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico
- The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts
- Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium
Showing 5 of 31 shared publications
- Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation
- Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium
- North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations
- Tree-Ring Reconstructed Winter Precipitation and Tropical Teleconnections in Durango, Mexico
- Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico
Showing 5 of 30 shared publications
- Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States
- Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States*
- North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences
- Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation
- Tree‐ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America
Showing 5 of 29 shared publications
- The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras
- Tree-ring reconstructed megadroughts over North America since a.d. 1300
- Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene
- North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree‐ring latewood
- Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico
Showing 5 of 22 shared publications
- The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras
- Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America
- Tree rings and rainfall in the equatorial Amazon
- The Relationship Between Earlywood and Latewood Ring-Growth Across North America
- The Climate Response of Cedrela Fissilis Annual Ring Width in the Rio São Francisco Basin, Brazil
Showing 5 of 19 shared publications
- The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras
- Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium
- Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico
- Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America
- Early 21st‐Century Drought in Mexico
Showing 5 of 17 shared publications
- The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras
- Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America
- Multidecadal Changes in Wet Season Precipitation Totals Over the Eastern Amazon
- Multidecadal Modulation of the ENSO Teleconnection to Precipitation and Tree Growth Over Subtropical North America
- Longevity, climate sensitivity, and conservation status of wetland trees at Black River, North Carolina
Showing 5 of 16 shared publications
- Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States
- Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States*
- Tree‐ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America
- North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree‐ring latewood
- Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Tree-ring reconstructed megadroughts over North America since a.d. 1300
- Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium
- Paleoclimatic Analogs to Twentieth-Century Moisture Regimes Across the United States
- Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico
- Early 21st‐Century Drought in Mexico
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Winter-spring precipitation reconstructions from tree rings for northeast Mexico
- Climate Warming and 21st‐Century Drought in Southwestern North America
- Dendroclimatology from Regional to Continental Scales: Understanding Regional Processes to Reconstruct Large-Scale Climatic Variations Across the Western Americas
- Hydroclimatic variability of the upper Nazas basin: Water management implications for the irrigated area of the Comarca Lagunera, Mexico
- ARBOLES LONGEVOS DE MEXICO
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Aridity changes in the Temperate-Mediterranean transition of the Andes since ad 1346 reconstructed from tree-rings
- Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium
- Tree ring reconstructed rainfall over the southern Amazon Basin
- Dendroclimatology from Regional to Continental Scales: Understanding Regional Processes to Reconstruct Large-Scale Climatic Variations Across the Western Americas
- Tree-Ring Records of Past ENSO Variability and Forcing
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- ARBOLES LONGEVOS DE MEXICO
- The climatic response of baldcypress (Taxodium mucronatum Ten.) in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- VARIABILIDAD HIDROCLIMÁTICA HISTÓRICA DEL NORTE DE MÉXICO INFERIDA CON ANILLOS DE CRECIMIENTO DE DOUGLAS-FIR
- RECONSTRUCCION DE LOS NIVELES DEL LAGO DE CHAPALA CON SERIES DENDROCRONOLOGICAS DE Taxodium mucronatum Ten.
- Climate and the Radial Growth of Conifers in Borderland Natural Areas of Texas and Northern Mexico
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico
- Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium
- When half of the population died: the epidemic of hemorrhagic fevers of 1576 in Mexico
- Aztec Drought and the “Curse of One Rabbit”
- Early 21st‐Century Drought in Mexico
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras
- North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations
- Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene
- Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America
- Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth‐Century North American Megadrought
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
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