Curriculum Vitae

Education

2014	University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Ph.D. Paleoclimatology and Geoscience. Minor: Global Change. GPA: 4.0. Advisors: Jonathan Overpeck and Connie Woodhouse Title: The Context for Megadrought: Multiproxy Paleoenvironmental Perspectives from the South San Juan Mountains, Colorado.
2006	Prescott College, Prescott, AZ. B.A. Environmental Studies. Minor: Arts and Letters.
2004	Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ. Transfer: Science, Math, and Spanish.

Appointments

2016 - Present	Assistant Research Professor. Northern Arizona University.
2014 - 2016	Postdoctoral Research Scholar. Northern Arizona University.

Publications

Routson, C. C., Woodhouse, C. A., Overpeck, J. T., Betancourt, J. L., & McKay, N. P. (2016). Teleconnected ocean forcing of Western North American droughts and pluvials during the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews, 146, 238-250.

Routson, C. C., J. T. Overpeck, C. A. Woodhouse, and W. F. Kenney (2016). Three Millennia of Southwestern North American Dustiness and Future Implications, PLOS ONE, 11(2), e0149573, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149573.

PAGES2k Consortium (Routson one of 114 contributing authors). (submitted) A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Manuscript in review at Nature Scientific Data.

Kaufman, D.S., Axford, Y.L., Henderson, A.C.G., McKay, N.P., Oswald, W.W., Saenger, C., Anderson, R.S., Bailey, H.L., Clegg, B., Gajewski, K., Hu, F.S., Jones, M.C., Massa, C.,Routson, C.C., Werner, A., Wooller, M.J., Yu, Z., 2016. Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, Special Issue: PAST Gateways (Palaeo- Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways) 147, 312–339. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.021.

Briner, J.P., McKay, N.P., Axford, Y., Bennike, O., Bradley, R.S., de Vernal, A., Fisher, D., Francus, P., Fréchette, B., Gajewski, K., Jennings, A., Kaufman, D.S., Miller, G., Routson, C.C., Wagner, B., 2016. Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, Special Issue: PAST Gateways (Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways) 147, 340–364. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.010.

Routson, K. J., Routson, C. C., Sheppard, P. (2012). Dendrochronology reveals planting dates of historic apple trees in the southwestern United States. Journal of the American Pomological Society, 66(1), 9-15

Routson, C. C., Woodhouse, C. A., Overpeck J. T. (2011). Second century megadrought in the Rio Grande headwaters, Colorado: How unusual was medieval drought? Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L22703, doi:10.1029/2011GL050015.

Presentations

Pederson, G.T., Anchukaitis K., St. George, S., McKay, N., Routson, C.C., PAGES NAM2K Group., 2016. Progress towards a tree-ring based North American 2k summer temperature reconstruction. AmeriDendro Talk.

Routson, C.C., 2015. The Megadrought Environment: Using bio- and geochemical indicators to assess temperature and dust feedbacks during extreme droughts in the southwest U.S. over the past 2000 years. Northern Arizona University, Chemistry department colloquium talk.

Routson, C.C., Fortin, D., 2015. Stories in the Mud. Northern Arizona University, SESES department colloquium talk.

Routson, C.C., 2013. The Context for Megadrought: Multiproxy Paleoenvironmental Perspectives from the South San Juan Mountains, Colorado. University of Arizona, public dissertation defense talk.

Addison, J. A., Hayes, S., Sliwinski, M. G., Routson, C.C., Foster, A. 2013. Iron geochemistry of the Medieval Climate Anomaly varve sequence in Deep Inley, Alaska, using core-scanning XRF, synchrotron µ- XRF, and µ-XANES spectroscopy. AGU abstract and poster.

Routson, C.C., Overpeck, J.T. Woodhouse, C. A. 2013. 3000 years of Southwest Dustiness. University of Arizona, Geodaze talk.

Routson, C.C., Overpeck, J.T. Woodhouse, C. A. 2012. A Climate of Dust: 2500 years of Southwest Dustiness. AGU abstract and talk.

Routson, C.C., Woodhouse, C.A., Overpeck, J.T. 2012. Second century megadrought in the Rio Grande headwaters: how unusual was medieval drought? University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research colloquium.

Routson, C.C., Woodhouse, C.A., Overpeck, J.T. 2012. Periods of unusual aridity in the Southwest United States. University of Arizona, Earth Week Plenary Session talk.

Routson, C.C., Woodhouse, C.A., Overpeck, J.T. 2012. Second century megadrought in the Rio Grande headwaters: how unusual was medieval drought? Southwest Climate Workshop, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jemez Spings NM, talk.

Routson, C.C. 2011. The Perfect Ocean for Megadrought. University of Arizona Graduate student research blitz talk.

Routson, C.C., McKay, N.P., Woodhouse, C.A., Overpeck, J.T. 2011. The Perfect Ocean For Megadrought. AGU abstract and poster.

Routson, C.C., Woodhouse, C.A., Overpeck, J.T., Meko, D.M., Betancourt, J., 2010, Characterizing 2,000 years of high elevation climate variability in the South San Juan Mountains, Colorado. Abstract and talk, Mountain Climate Research Conference, Blue River, OR.

Routson, C.C. 2010. Second Century Drought. University of Arizona, Geoscience department brownbag talk.

Routson, C.C. 2009 “Fingerprinting Medieval Climate.” Geodaze talk.

Research Grants

2016	The Dust Drought Nexus. Private donor. 2016-21 Co-PI.	$200.000
2016	Synthesis of Holocene proxy climate records from western North America, 2016-19; NSF Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change. Co-PI.	$481,822

Select Scholarships and Awards

2014	Bisgrove Postdoctoral Scholar Award.	$200,000
2013	Best Geodaze Climate Talk Award	$250
2011	Galileo Circle Scholar Award	$1,000
2011	Bristlecone Award	$1,000
2010	Keith Katzer Scholarship Fund	$1,500
2009-2012	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship	$90,000
2009	Wilson Thompson Scholarship Fund	$1,400
2009	Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Research Fund	$500
2007-2009	Science Foundation of Arizona, Graduate Fellowship	$60,000
2008	Bert S. Buttler Scholarship Fund	$1,500

Teaching

2015-2016	Mentor, assisting Dr. McKay in mentoring two of his graduate students focusing on Southwestern paleoclimate research projects, NAU
2016	Guest Lecturer, Methods in data analysis, NAU
2013	Teaching Assistant, Life on Earth (GEOS 170C), University of Arizona
2013	Guest Panelist/Lecture: A Geologic Perspective (GEOS 170A1)
2012	Teaching Assistant, Oceanography (GEOS 212), University of Arizona
2012	Mentor, NASA space grant program, University of Arizona
2011-2012	Mentor, SAGUARO undergraduate program, University of Arizona
2011	Guest Lecturer: Geography of World Regions (GEOG 251)

Media Coverage

2011	Colorado Public Radio, Tucson Public Radio, UA News, LA Times, and Arizona Daily Star.

Work Experience

2002-2014	Biological consulting including rare plants surveys, rare plants monitoring, tortoise surveys, and rangeland surveys.
2006-2007	Pierce Farms. Skilled labor, construction, and maintenance work.
1996-2005	Routson Company Inc. Carpenter, stonemason, concrete work, crew manager, Prescott AZ.
2005	Commercial King and Sockeye Salmon fishing, Bristol Bay, AK.
2004	Landscaping, Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks Alaska.

Volunteer

2015	Northern Arizona University Undergraduate Symposium Poster Judge.
2010-2011	Invited Blogger: Second Century Southwest Megadrought and: Megadrought: Is the Past a Key to Our Future? Southwest Climate Change Network.
2009	Sonora Mexico Desert Tortoise Project.
2008	Arizona Gem and Mineral Show, geologic exhibit for children.
2002, 2007	Assisted Gary Paul Nabhan with social and environmental initiatives for the Seri Indians, Desemboque and Punta Chueca, Mexico.

Lab Experience

Experience with EDAX micro-X-ray fluorescence analyzers, Mastersizer grain size analyzers, the Stanford Linear Accelerator, biomarker (GDGT/TEX86) extraction and analysis, pretreating and combusting radiocarbon samples, pretreating and picking chironomid samples, resin imbedding sediments, loss on ignition, and methods of dendrochronology.

Analytical Skills

Matlab, Dendrochronology Program Library, Chemstation, Adobe, Office, spatiotemporal data analysis methods, time series analysis etc.