Dr. Clay Tucker
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Tucker is a tree-ring scientist and hurricane climatologist, and he obtained a PhD in Geography at Louisiana State University. He served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alabama before coming to 草榴社区. He is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and he spends much of his professional and personal life in the swamps, marshes, and bays of the Gulf Coast.
- PHD - Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (2020)
- MS - Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (2015)
- BS - Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (2013)
GHY 104 - Weather and Climate
GHY 104L - Weather and Climate Lab
GHY 105L - Land and Water Lab
GHY 423/523 - Dendrochronology
GHY 425/525 - Climatology
- The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data, Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 2023
- Baldcypress false ring formation linked to summer hydroclimatic extremes in the southeastern United States, Environmental Research Letters, 2022
- 1,100-Year Reconstruction of Baseflow for the Santee River, South Carolina, USA Reveals Connection to the North Atlantic Subtropical High, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022
- Using Tree-Ring Research to Introduce Students to Geoscience Fieldwork, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2021
- Coastal tree-ring records for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental applications in North America, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021
- Streamflow variability indicated by false rings in bald cypress (taxodium distichum (l.) rich.), Forests, 2020
- Taxodium distichum (baldcypress) growth rings reveal origins of an 18th century Jesuit plantation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Dendrochronologia, 2019
- Event-based climatology of tropical cyclone rainfall in Houston, Texas and Miami, Florida, Atmosphere, 2018
- Hurricane risk variability along the Gulf of Mexico coastline, PLoS One, 2015
- American Geophysical Union
- American Association of Geographers
- Gamma Theta Upsilon