Daniel Griffin

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Geography

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Research interests

My research areas include climate science, water resource issues, environmental dynamics and natural areas conservation. I specialize in tree-ring research, including data development, interpretation, and application in the environmental sciences. My current projects are focused in California, Guatemala, and the upper Midwest.

Teaching

• GEOG1403: Biogeography of the Global Garden

• GEOG3900: Earth's Climate

• GEOG8980: Climate extremes and environmental change

Expertise related to UN SDGs

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Research Interest Keywords

climate change
environmental dynamics
natural resource management
dendrochronology

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Collaborative Research: Winter Climate Anomalies across North America: Benchmarking Instrumental Trends and Model Projections with High Resolution Paleoclimatology
Griffin, D.
National Science Foundation
9/1/19 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
Collaborative Research: SG: Fire, climate, and vegetatio
Griffin, D., Hobbie, S. E. & Reich, P. B.
National Science Foundation
4/1/17 → 3/31/21
Project: Research project
Collaborative Research: Multi-proxy Reconstructions of N
Griffin, D.
National Science Foundation
5/15/17 → 4/30/20
Project: Research project

32 Article
2 Review article
1 Short survey

Century-scale wood nitrogen isotope trajectories from an oak savanna with variable fire frequencies
Trumper, M. L., Griffin, D., Hobbie, S. E., Howard, I. M., Nelson, D. M., Reich, P. B. & McLauchlan, K. K., Sep 15 2020, In: Biogeosciences. 17, 18, p. 4509-4522 14 p., 45092020.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Century-scale fire dynamics in a savanna ecosystem
Leys, B. A., Griffin, D., Larson, E. R. & McLauchlan, K. K., Sep 2019, In: Fire. 2, 3, p. 1-15 15 p., 51.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
2 Scopus citations
Multidecadal Modulation of the ENSO Teleconnection to Precipitation and Tree Growth Over Subtropical North America
Torbenson, M. C. A., Stahle, D. W., Howard, I. M., Burnette, D. J., Villanueva-Díaz, J., Cook, E. R. & Griffin, D., May 2019, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 34, 5, p. 886-900 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
8 Scopus citations
Tree rings and rainfall in the equatorial Amazon
Granato-Souza, D., Stahle, D. W., Barbosa, A. C., Feng, S., Torbenson, M. C. A., de Assis Pereira, G., Schöngart, J., Barbosa, J. P. & Griffin, D., Feb 15 2019, In: Climate Dynamics. 52, 3-4, p. 1857-1869 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
16 Scopus citations
Rising synchrony controls western North American ecosystems
Black, B. A., van der Sleen, P., Di Lorenzo, E., Griffin, D., Sydeman, W. J., Dunham, J. B., Rykaczewski, R. R., García-Reyes, M., Safeeq, M., Arismendi, I. & Bograd, S. J., Jun 2018, In: Global change biology. 24, 6, p. 2305-2314 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
27 Scopus citations

Century-scale wood nitrogen isotope trajectories from an oak savanna with variable fire frequencies
Trumper, M., Griffin, D., Hobbie, S. E., Howard, I. M., Nelson, D. M., Reich, P. B. & McLauchlan, K. K., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2020
DOI: 10.13020/428b-8h51, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/216183
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