Valerie Barber
	Telephone (primary): (907) 474-6794 Telephone (secondary): Fax: E-mail1 (primary): ffvab@uaf.edu E-mail2 (secondary): Web URL: Address: University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757200, 329 ONL Fairbanks, AK 99775 United States

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Publications (14)

Journal Articles:

Barber, V.A., G.P. Juday and B.P. Finney. 1998. Tree-ring data for climate reconstruction and indication of twentieth century warming and summer drying. PaleoTimes VI:20-22.

Barber, V.A. and Finney, B.P. 2000. Late Quaternary paleoclimatic reconstructions for interior Alaska based on paleolake-level data and hydrologic models. Journal of Paleolimnology 24: 29-41.

Barber, V.A., G.P. Juday and B.P. Finney. 2000 Reduced growth of Alaskan white spruce in the twentieth century from temperature-induced drought stress. Nature 405:668-673.

Edwards, M.E., Mock, C., Finney, B., Barber, V. and Bartlein, P. 2001. Modern climate analogues of paleoclimatic variations in eastern interior Alaska during the past 14,000 years: Atmospheric-circulation controls of regional temperature and moisture responses. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 189-202.

Barber, V.A., G.P. Juday, B.P. Finney and M. Wilmking. 2004 Reconstruction of summer temperatures in interior Alaska from tree-ring proxies: evidence for changing synoptic climate regimes. Climatic Change 63:91-121.

Wilmking, M., G.P. Juday, V. Barber, and H. Zald. 2004 Recent climate warming forces contrasting growth responses of white spruce at treeline in Alaska through temperature thresholds. Global Change Biology 10:1-13.

Books:

Book Chapters:

Juday, G.P., R.A. Ott, D.W. Valentine and V.A. Barber. 1998. Forests, climate stress, insects, and fire. Pages 23-49 in G. Weller, and P. Anderson, editors. Implications of global change in Alaska and the Bering Sea region. Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

Barber, V. A., G. P. Juday and E. Berg. 2002. Assessment of recent and possible future forest responses to climate in boreal Alaska. Pages 102-105 plus 3 figures (pp 288-289) in Workshop on Northern Timberline Forests: Environmental and Socio-economic Issues and Concerns. Finnish Forest Research Institute. Kolari Research Station., 289 pp.

Juday, G.P., V. Barber, E. Vaganov, S. Rupp, S. Sparrow, J. Yarie, H. Linderholm, E. Berg, R. D'Arrigo, P. Duffy, O. Eggertsson, V.V. Furyaev, E.H. Hogg, S. Huttunen, G. Jacoby, V.Ya. Kaplunov, S. Kellomaki, A.V. Kirdyanov, C.E. Lewis, S. Linder, M.M. Naurzbaev, F.I. Pleshikov, Yu.V. Savva, O.V. Sidorova, V.D. Stakanov, N.M. Tchebakova, E.N. Valendik, E.F. Vedrova, and M. Wilmking. 2005. Forests, Land Management, Agriculture. In Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Arctic Council, Cambridge University Press, pages 781-862.

Lloyd, A. H., M. E. Edwards, B. P. Finney, J. A. Lynch, V. Barber, and N. H. Bigelow. 2006. Holocene development of the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 62-78 in F. S. Chapin, III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla, editors. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

Barber, V.A., G.P. Juday, T. Osterkamp, R. D’Arrigo, E. Berg, B. Buckley, L. Hinzman, H. Huntington, T. Jorgensen, A.D. McGuire, B. Riordan, A. Whiting, G. Wiles, and M. Wilmking. 2009. A synthesis of recent climate warming effects on terrestrial ecosystems in Alaska. Chapter 9 in Future Climate Change: Implications for Western Environments. Edited by F. Wagner. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City, Utah. In press.

Conference Proceedings:

Juday, G.P., R.A. Ott, D.W. Valentine and V.A. Barber. 1997. Assessment of actual and potential global warming effects on forests of Alaska. Pages 121-126 in New England Regional Climate Change Impacts Workshop. Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.

Juday, G.P., V. Barber, E. Berg and D. Valentine. 1999. Recent dynamics of white spruce treeline forests across Alaska in relation to climate. Pages 165-187 in S. Kankaanpaa, T. Tasanen and M.-L. Sutinen, editors. Sustainable development in northern timberline forests. Proceedings of the Timberline Workshop. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Ministry of the Environment, Finland.

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Thesis and Dissertations:

Barber, V.A. 2002. Millennial to annual scale paleoclimatic change in central Alaska during the late Quaternary interpreted from lake sediments and tree rings. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Fairbanks, AK, USA.