Brice, B., Fullerton, C., Hawkes, K.L., Mills-Novoa, M., O'Neill, B.F., and Pawlowski, W.M., 2017, The impacts of climate change on natural areas recreation: a multi-region snapshot and agency comparison: Natural Areas Journal, 37(1), p.86-97.
Rebecca Brice, PhD
Becky Brice is an earth systems geographer using tree rings and lake sediments to study paleclimate, hydroclimatic processes, and the interaction between the climate and human systems. She specializes in dendrochronological reconstructions over the Common Era and her research aims to understand the role of climate variability in changing water resources.
Biography
Education
PhD, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, 2020
MA, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Denver, 2013
BS, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Metropolitan State University Denver, 2011
BA, Department of Modern Languages, Metropolitan State University Denver, 1998
Appointments
2020-present, Geographer, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, USA
2019-2020, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Science and Products
Date published: March 25, 2020
Status: Active Past Perspectives of Water in the West
In the intermountain west, seasonal precipitation extremes, combined with population growth, are creating new challenges for the management of water resources, ecosystems, and geologic hazards. This research contributes a comprehensive long-term context for a deeper understanding of past hydrologic variability, including the magnitude and frequency of drought and flood extremes and ecosystem...
Date published: July 14, 2017
Status: Active Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change: Fire, climate and humans
Large wildfires have raged across the western Americas in the past decade including the Las Conchas, New Mexico fire that burned 44,000 acres in a single day in 2011 (Orem and Pelletier, 2015, Geomorphology 232: 224-238, and references therein), the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta fire that required evacuating an entire city, and the 2015 Alaskan fire season that burned more than 5 million acres (...
Contacts: Natalie M Kehrwald
Year Published: 2021
Comparing tree-ring based reconstructions of snowpack variability at different scales for the Navajo Nation
Snowpack in the western U.S. is on the decline, largely attributed to increasing temperatures in the region. This is a critical issue for many Native American communities who disproportionately rely on local snow-fed water supplies. In light of a combined ongoing drought and limited climate information for the Navajo Nation, Navajo water...
Brice, Rebecca Lynn; Guiterman, Christopher H.; Woodhouse, Connie A.; McClellan, Carlee; Sheppard, Paul
Year Published: 2021
Climate and Ecological Disturbance Analysis of Engelmann spruce and Douglas fir in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The effects of anthropogenic climate change are apparent in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), USA, with forest die-off, insect outbreaks, and wildfires impacting forest ecosystems. A long-term perspective would enable assessment of the historical range of variability in forest ecosystems and better determination of recent forest dynamics...
Rinaldi, Brittany; Maxwell, R. Stockton; Callahan, Thomas; Brice, Rebecca Lynn; Heeter, Karen; Harley, Grant L.Pre-USGS Publications
Brice, B., Lorion, K.K., Griffin, D., Macalady, A.K., Guiterman, C.H., Speer, J.H., Benakoun, L.R., Cutter, A., Hart, M.E., Murray, M.P., and Nash, S.E., 2013, Signal strength in sub-annual tree-ring chronologies from Pinus ponderosa in northern New Mexico: Tree-Ring Research, 69(2), p.81-86.
Price, J.R., Peresolak, K., Brice, R.L., and Tefend, K.S., 2013, Temporal variability in the chemical weathering of Ca2+-bearing phases in the Loch Vale watershed, Colorado, USA: A mass-balance approach: Chemical Geology, 342, p.151-166.
Date published: May 31, 2021
Comparing tree-ring based reconstructions of snowpack variability at different scales for the Navajo Nation
This article is part of the Spring 2021 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Attribution: Climate Research and Development Program