Prof. Dr. Robert Scott St. George

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeomorphology,Climatology
Keywordsdecadal variability, dendroclimatology, tree rings, climate change, paleoclimatology

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityMinneapolis
InstitutionWillis Towers Watson (WTW)
InstituteWillis Research Network (WRN)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jan EsperGeographisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Dr. Eduardo ZoritaInstitut für Küstenforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH, Geesthacht
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2017

Programme(s)

2016Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2020Tejedor, Ernesto and Serrano-Notivoli, Roberto and de Luis, Martin and Saz, Miguel Angel and Hartl, Claudia and St George, Scott and Büntgen, Ulf and Liebhold, Andrew M and Vuille, Mathias and Esper, Jan: {A global perspective on the climate-driven growth synchrony of neighbouring trees}. In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20, 2020, 1016--12
2020St George, Scott and White, Michael: {Boosting the signal}. In: Nature, 579, 2020, 621--622
2020Zuckerberg, Benjamin and Strong, Courtenay and LaMontagne, Jalene M and St George, Scott and Betancourt, Julio L and Koenig, Walter D: {Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations}. In: Trends in Ecology {\&} Evolution, 35, 2020, 440--453
2020Klippel, Lara and St George, Scott and Büntgen, Ulf and Krusic, Paul J and Esper, Jan: {Differing pre-industrial cooling trends between tree rings and lower-resolution temperature proxies}. In: Climate of the Past, 16, 2020, 729--742
2020Martin, Justin T and Pederson, Gregory T and Woodhouse, Connie A and Cook, Edward R and Mccabe, Gregory J and Anchukaitis, Kevin J and Wise, Erika K and Erger, Patrick J and Dolan, Larry and McGuire, Marketa and Gangopadhyay, Subhrendu and Chase, Katherine J and Littell, Jeremy S and Gray, Stephen T and St George, Scott and Friedman, Jonathan M and Sauchyn, David J and St Jacques, Jeannine-Marie and King, John: {Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin.}. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 19, 2020, 201916208
2020Coulthard, Bethany L and George, Scott St and Meko, David M: {The limits of freely-available tree-ring chronologies}. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 234, 2020, 106264
2019Martin, Justin T and Pederson, Gregory T and Woodhouse, Connie A and Cook, Edward R and Mccabe, Gregory J and Wise, Erika K and Erger, Patrick and Dolan, Larry and McGuire, Marketa and Gangopadhyay, Subhrendu and Chase, Katherine and Littell, Jeremy S and Gray, Stephen T and George, Scott St and Friedman, Jonathan and Sauchyn, Dave and Jacques, Jeannine St and King, John: {1200 years of Upper Missouri River streamflow reconstructed from tree rings}. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 224, 2019, 105971
2019Klippel, Lara and Krusic, Paul J and Konter, Oliver and St George, Scott and Trouet, Valerie and Esper, Jan: {A 1200+ year reconstruction of temperature extremes for the northeastern Mediterranean region}. In: International Journal of Climatology, 39, 2019, 2336--2350
2019St George, Scott: {Abberant synchrony of present-day warming}. In: Nature, 571, 2019, 483--484
2019George, Scott St and Esper, Jan: {Concord and discord among Northern Hemisphere paleotemperature reconstructions from tree rings}. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 203, 2019, 278--281
2019Thapa, Uday Kunwar and George, Scott St: {Detecting the influence of climate and humans on pine forests across the dry valleys of eastern Nepal{\textquoteright}s Koshi River basin}. In: Forest Ecology and Management, 440, 2019, 12--22
2019Wilhelm, Bruno and Ballesteros-C{\'a}novas, Juan Antonio and Macdonald, Neil and Toonen, Willem H J and Baker, Victor and Barriendos, Mariano and Benito, Gerardo and Brauer, Achim and Corella, Juan Pablo and Denniston, Rhawn and Glaser, Rüdiger and Ionita, Monica and Kahle, Michael and Liu, Tao and Luetscher, Marc and Macklin, Mark and Mudelsee, Manfred and Munoz, Samuel and Schulte, Lothar and St George, Scott and Stoffel, Markus and Wetter, Oliver: {Interpreting historical, botanical, and geological evidence to aid preparations for future floods}. In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6, 2019, e1318--22
2019St George, Scott and Mudelsee, Manfred: {The weight of the flood-of-record in flood frequency analysis}. In: Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12, 2019, 45--8
2019Hartl, Claudia and George, Scott St and Konter, Oliver and Harr, Lorenz and Scholz, Denis and Kirchhefer, Andreas and Esper, Jan: {Warfare dendrochronology: Trees witness the deployment of the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway}. In: Anthropocene, 27, 2019, 100212
2018Ault, Toby R and St George, Scott and Smerdon, Jason E and Coats, Sloan and Mankin, Justin S and Carrillo, Carlos M and Cook, Benjamin I and Stevenson, Samantha: {A robust null hypothesis for the potential causes of megadrought in western North America}. In: Journal of Climate, 31, 2018, 3--24
2018Appleton, Sarah N and George, Scott St: {High-elevation mountain hemlock growth as a surrogate for cool-season precipitation in Crater Lake National Park, USA}. In: Dendrochronologia, 52, 2018, 20--28
2018Esper, Jan and George, Scott St and Anchukaitis, Kevin and D'Arrigo, Rosanne and Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier and Luterbacher, Jürg and Schneider, Lea and Stoffel, Markus and Wilson, Rob and Büntgen, Ulf: {Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings}. In: Dendrochronologia, 50, 2018, 81--90
2018St George, Scott: {Mississippi rising}. In: Nature, 556, 2018, 34--35
2018Esper, Jan and Holtzkämper, Steffen and Büntgen, Ulf and Schöne, Bernd and Keppler, Frank and Hartl-Meier, Claudia and St George, Scott and Richelmann, Dana and Treydte, Kerstin S: {Site-specific climatic signals in stable isotope records from Swedish pine forests}. In: Trees, 0, 2018, 0--0
2018Kaufman, Darrell S and {PAGES 2k special-issue editorial team}: {Technical note: Open-paleo-data implementation pilot {\textendash} the PAGES 2k special issue}. In: Climate of the Past, 14, 2018, 593--600
2018Ault, Toby R and St George, Scott: {Unraveling the mysteries of megadrought}. In: Physics Today, 71, 2018, 44--50
2017The PAGES2k Consortium: A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. In: Scientific Data, 2017,
2017Yochanin Kushnir, Christophe Cassou, Scott St. George: Editorial: Decadal Climate Variability. In: Joint publication of CLIVAR Exchanges and Past Global Changes Magazine, 2017, 1-1
2017Scott St. George, Daniel Crawford, Todd Reubold, Elizabeth Giorgi: Making climate data sing — Using music-like sonifications to convey a key climate record. In: The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2017, 23-27
2017Udya Thapa, Scott St. George, Deepak Kharal, Narayan Gaire: Tree growth across the Nepal Himalaya during the last four centuries. In: Progress in Physical Geography, 2017,
2017Deepak K. Kharal, Udya Thapa, Scott St. George, Henrik Meilby, Santosh Rayamajhi, Dinesh Bhuju: Tree-climate relations along an elevational transect in Manang Valley, central Nepal. In: Dendrochronologia, 2017, 57-64
2017Emile-Geay, Julien and Mckay, Nicholas P and Kaufman, Darrell S and Von Gunten, Lucien and Wang, Jianghao and Anchukaitis, Kevin J and Abram, Nerilie J and Addison, Jason A and Curran, Mark A J and Evans, Michael N and Henley, Benjamin J and Hao, Zhixin and Martrat, Belen and McGregor, Helen V and Neukom, Raphael and Pederson, Gregory T and Stenni, Barbara and Thirumalai, Kaustubh and Werner, Johannes P and Xu, Chenxi and Divine, Dmitry V and Dixon, Bronwyn C and Gergis, Jo{\"e}lle and Mundo, Ignacio A and Nakatsuka, Takeshi and Phipps, Steven J and Routson, Cody C and Steig, Eric J and Tierney, Jessica E and Tyler, Jonathan J and Allen, Kathryn J and Bertler, Nancy A N and Björklund, Jesper and Chase, Brian M and Chen, Min-Te and Cook, Ed and de Jong, Rixt and DeLong, Kristine L and Dixon, Daniel A and Ekaykin, Alexey A and Ersek, Vasile and Filipsson, Helena L and Francus, Pierre and Freund, Mandy B and Frezzotti, Massimo and Gaire, Narayan P and Gajewski, Konrad and Ge, Quansheng and Goosse, Hugues and Gornostaeva, Anastasia and Grosjean, Martin and Horiuchi, Kazuho and Hormes, Anne and Husum, Katrine and Isaksson, Elisabeth and Kandasamy, Selvaraj and Kawamura, Kenji and Kilbourne, K Halimeda and Ko{\c c}, Nalan and Leduc, Guillaume and Linderholm, Hans W and Lorrey, Andrew M and Mikhalenko, Vladimir and Mortyn, P Graham and Motoyama, Hideaki and Moy, Andrew D and Mulvaney, Robert and Munz, Philipp M and Nash, David J and Oerter, Hans and Opel, Thomas and Orsi, Anais J and Ovchinnikov, Dmitriy V and Porter, Trevor J and Roop, Heidi A and Saenger, Casey and Sano, Masaki and Sauchyn, David and Saunders, Krystyna M and Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig and Severi, Mirko and Shao, Xuemei and Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine and Sigl, Michael and Sinclair, Kate and St George, Scott and Jacques, Jeannine-Marie St and Thamban, Meloth and Thapa, Udya Kuwar and Thomas, Elizabeth R and Turney, Chris and Uemura, Ryu and Viau, Andre E and Vladimirova, Diana O and Wahl, Eugene R and White, James W C and Yu, Zicheng and Zinke, Jens: {Data Descriptor: A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era}. In: Scientific Data, 4, 2017, 1--33
2017Kushnir, Yochanan and Cassou, Christophe and St George, Scott: {Editorial: Decadal Climate Variability}. In: Past Global Changes Magazine, 25, 2017, 1--1
2017St George, Scott and Telford, Richard J: {Fossil forest reveals sunspot activity in the early Permian: COMMENT}. In: Geology, 45, 2017, e427--e427
2017St George, Scott and Crawford, Daniel and Reubold, Todd and Giorgi, Elizabeth: {Making Climate Data Sing: Using Music-like Sonifications to Convey a Key Climate Record}. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 2017, 23--27
2017{PAGES 2k Coordinators}: {The third phase of the PAGES 2k Network}. In: Past Global Changes Magazine, 25, 2017, 71--74
2017Thapa, U K and St George, S and Kharal, D K and Gaire, N P: {Tree growth across the Nepal Himalaya during the last four centuries}. In: Progress in Physical Geography, 52, 2017, 030913331771424--18
2017Kharal, Deepak K and Thapa, Udya K and St George, Scott and Meilby, Henrik and Rayamajhi, Santosh and Bhuju, Dinesh R: {Tree-climate relations along an elevational transect in Manang Valley, central Nepal}. In: Dendrochronologia, 41, 2017, 57--64
2017PAGES 2k Network Coordinators: {Understanding the climate of the past 2000 years: Phase 3 of the PAGES 2k Network}. In: Past Global Changes Magazine, 4, 2017, 170088--1
2015Ballesteros-Canovas, J A and Stoffel, M and St George, S and Hirschboeck, K: {A review of flood records from tree rings}. In: Progress in Physical Geography, 39, 2015, 1--23
2015Brooks, Gregory R and St George, Scott: {Flooding, structural flood control measures, and recent geomorphic research along the Red River, Manitoba, Canada}. In: Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe, 2015, 87--117
2015St George, Scott and Anchukaitis, Kevin J: {On the AD 1815 Tambora eruption and the matter of misplaced tree rings}. In: PAGES Magazine, 2015, 1--2
2014St George, Scott: {An overview of tree-ring width records across the Northern Hemisphere}. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 2014, 132--150
2014St George, Scott and Torbenson, Max: {New ages for shoreline stumps along Lake Winnipeg, Canada, and their implications for paleo-lake level estimates}. In: The Holocene, 24, 2014, 1393--1397
2014St George, Scott: {The global network of tree-ring widths and its applications to paleoclimatology}. In: PAGES Magazine, 22, 2014, 16--17
2014St George, Scott and Ault, Toby R: {The imprint of climate within Northern Hemisphere trees}. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 89, 2014, 1--4
2013Ault, Toby R and Cole, Julia E and Overpeck, Jonathan T and Pederson, Gregory T and St George, Scott and Otto-Bliesner, Bette and Woodhouse, Connie A and Deser, Clara: {The continuum of hydroclimate variability in western North America during the last millennium}. In: Journal of Climate, 26, 2013, 5863--5878
2013St George, Scott and Ault, Toby R and Torbenson, Max: {The rarity of absent growth rings in Northern Hemisphere forests outside the American Southwest}. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 2013, n--a--n--a
2013Wertz, Erika L and St George, Scott and Zeleznik, Joseph D: {Vessel anomalies in Quercus macrocarpa tree rings associated with recent floods along the Red River of the North, United States}. In: Water Resources Research, 2013, 1--5
2012Kipfmueller, Kurt F and Larson, Evan R and St George, Scott: {Does proxy uncertainty affect the relations inferred between the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and wildfire activity in the western United States?}. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 39, 2012, L04703
2012Ault, T R and Cole, J E and St George, Scott: {The amplitude of decadal to multidecadal variability in precipitation simulated by state-of-the-art climate models}. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 39, 2012, L21705
2011St George, Scott and Ault, Toby R: {Is energetic decadal variability a stable feature of the central Pacific Coast's winter climate?}. In: J. Geophys. Res, 116, 2011, D12102
2010St George, Scott: {Dendrohydrology and extreme floods along the Red River, Canada}. In: Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-the-Art, 2010, 277--279
2010Ault, Toby R and St George, Scott: {The magnitude of decadal and multidecadal variability in North American precipitation}. In: Journal of Climate, 2010, 842--850
2010St George, Scott and Meko, David M and Cook, E R: {The seasonality of precipitation signals embedded within the North American Drought Atlas}. In: The Holocene, 20, 2010, 983--988
2010St George, Scott: {Tree rings as paleoflood and paleostage indicators}. In: Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-the-Art, 41, 2010, 233--239
2009St George, Scott and Wolfe, Stephen A: {El Nino stills winter winds across the southern Canadian Prairies}. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 2009, 1--5
2009St George, Scott and Meko, David M and Girardin, M and MacDonald, G M and Nielsen, Erik and Pederson, Gregory T and Sauchyn, David J and Tardif, Jacques and Watson, Emma: {The tree-ring record of drought on the Canadian Prairies}. In: Journal of Climate, 22, 2009, 680--710
2008St George, Scott and Meko, David M and Evans, Michael N: {Regional tree growth and inferred summer climate in the Winnipeg River basin, Canada, since AD 1783}. In: Quaternary Research, 70, 2008, 158--172
2007Catton, Haley and St George, Scott and Remphrey, W: {An evaluation of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) decline in the urban forest of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada}. In: Arboriculture {\&} Urban Forestry, 33, 2007, 22--30
2007St George, Scott: {Streamflow in the Winnipeg River basin, Canada: Trends, extremes and climate linkages}. In: Journal of Hydrology, 332, 2007, 396--411
2006St George, Scott and Outridge, Peter and Nielsen, Erik: {High-resolution dendrochemical analysis of flood-affected oaks using laser ablation ICP-mass spectrometry}. In: IAWA Journal, 27, 2006, 19--31
2006St George, Scott and Sauchyn, David J: {Paleoenvironmental Perspectives on Drought in Western Canada{\textemdash}Introduction}. In: Canadian Water Resources Journal, 2006,
2003Ferguson, Grant and St George, Scott: {Historical and estimated ground water levels near Winnipeg, Canada, and their sensitivity to {\ldots}}. In: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2003,
2003St George, Scott and Nielsen, E: {Palaeoflood records for the Red River, Manitoba, Canada, derived from anatomical tree-ring signatures}. In: The Holocene, 2003,
2003St George, Scott and Rannie, Bill: {The causes, progression and magnitude of the 1826 Red River flood in Manitoba}. In: Canadian Water Resources Journal, 28, 2003,
2002St George, Scott and Nielsen, Erik: {Flood ring evidence and its application to paleoflood hydrology of the Red River and Assiniboine Rivers in Manitoba}. In: G{\'e}ographie Physique et Quaternaire, 2002,
2002St George, Scott and Nielsen, Erik: {Hydroclimatic change in southern Manitoba since AD 1409 inferred from tree rings}. In: Quaternary Research, 2002,
2002St George, Scott and Nielsen, E and Conciatori, F: {Trends in Quercus macrocarpa vessel areas and their implications for tree-ring paleoflood studies}. In: Tree-Ring {\ldots}, 2002,
2001St George, Scott and Luckman, B H: {Extracting a paleotemperature record from Picea engelmannii tree-line sites in the central Canadian Rockies}. In: Canadian journal of forest {\ldots}, 2001,
2000St George, Scott and Nielsen, Erik: {Signatures of high-magnitude 19th-century floods in Quercus macrocarpa tree rings along the Red {\ldots}}. In: Geology, 2000,
1999Luckman, Brian H and Kavanagh, T A and Craig, I and St George, Scott: {Earliest photograph of Athabasca and Dome Glaciers, Alberta}. In: G{\'e}ographie Physique et Quaternaire, 53, 1999, 401--405