Dan Ferguson

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Gerlak, A., Vafai, H., Ferguson, D. B., Salame, L., Colglazier, E. W., Vafai, H. A., Lansey, K. E., & Bryson, M. D. (2021). Science Diplomacy in Education. In Sustainable Development for the Americas: Science, Health, and Engineering Policy and Diplomacy(pp 297-342). CRC Press.
• Ferguson, D. B., Finucane, M. L., Keener, V. W., & Owen, G. (2016). Evaluation to advance science policy: lessons from Pacific RISA and CLIMAS. In Climate in Context(pp 215-234). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Journals/Publications

• Greene, C., Wilmer, H., Ferguson, D. B., Crimmins, M. A., & Mcclaran, M. P. (2022). Rancher’s Knowledge of Social-Ecological Change: Centering Agency and Scale in Resilience. . Journal of Rural Studies, 96, 217-226.
• Ferguson, D. B., Meadow, A. M., & Huntington, H. P. (2022). Making a Difference: Planning for Engaged Participation in Environmental Research. Environmental Management, 69(2), 227-243. doi:10.1007/s00267-021-01585-5
• Gerlak, A. K., Karambelkar, S., & Ferguson, D. B. (2021). Knowledge Governance and Learning: Examining Challenges and Opportunities in the Colorado River Basin. Environmental Science and Policy. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.026
• Johnson, N., Erickson, K. S., Ferguson, D. B., Jäger, M., Jennings, L. L., Juan, A. R., Larson, S., Smythe, W., Strawhacker, C., Walker, A., Carroll, S. R., Moon, T. A., Druckenmiller, M. L., & Thoman, R. L. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Sovereignty for Alaska Natives. 2021 Arctic Report Card. doi:10.25923/5cb7-6h06
• Peck, D. E., Owen, G., Greene, C., Garba, I., Ferguson, D. B., Carroll, S. R., Bentley, A., Meadow, A., & Wilmer, H. (2021). An Expanded Set of Ethical Principles for Transdisciplinary Social-Ecological Research. Ecology and Society, 68, 453-467. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01508-4
• Wilmer, H., Meadow, A., Bentley, A., Carroll, S. R., Ferguson, D. B., Garba, I., Greene, C., Owen, G., & Peck, D. E. (2021). Expanded Ethical Principles for Research Partnership and Transdisciplinary Natural Resource Management Science. Environmental Management. doi:Expanded Ethical Principles for Research Partnership and Transdisciplinary Natural Resource Management Science
• Anderson, T., Woodhouse, C. A., & Ferguson, D. B. (2020). Upper Lake Mary: Lake Level Response to Climate Variability. CLIMAS Technical Report.
• Ferguson, D. B., Carroll, S. R., Juan, A., Jennings, L., Jäger, M. B., & Johnson, N. (2020). Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network: Facilitating Exchange between Arctic and Southwest Indigenous Communities on Food and Knowledge Sovereignty. Witness Community Highlights. Fairbanks: ARCUS: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States.
• Rozance, M. A., Krosby, M., Meadow, A. M., Snover, A., Ferguson, D. B., & Owen, G. (2020). Building capacity for societally engaged climate science by transforming science training. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), 125008.
• Jäger, M. B., Ferguson, D., Huntington, O., Johnson, M., Johnson, N., Amy, J., Larson, S., Pulsifer, P., Reader, T., Strawhacker, C., Walker, A., Whiting, D., Wilson, J., Yazzie, J., Carroll, S., & Network, I. (2019). Building an Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network Through Relational Accountability. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(B), 45-51.
• Owen, G., Ferguson, D. B., & McMahan, B. (2019). Contextualizing climate science: applying social learning systems theory to knowledge production, climate services, and use-inspired research. Climatic Change.
• Crimmins, M. A., Ferguson, D. B., Meadow, A. M., & Weiss, J. L. (2017). Discerning "flavors" of drought using climate extremes indices. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0270.1
• Faulstich, H., Weiss, J. L., Meadow, A., Masayesva, A., Ferguson, D. B., & Crimmins, M. A. (2017). Drought Monitoring to Support Planning for the Hopi Tribe: Final Report 2010-2016. Climate Assessment for the Southwest Technical Report.
• Meadow, A. M., & Ferguson, D. B. (2017). Our Climate is Doing What? Tailoring Information about Regional Climate Change to Support Local Adaptation Decision Making. Rural Connections.
• Weiss, J. L., Meadow, A. M., Ferguson, D. B., & Crimmins, M. A. (2017). Variability of daily precipitation extremes in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
• Ferguson, D. B., Masayesva, A., Meadow, A. M., & Crimmins, M. A. (2016). Rain Gauges to Range Conditions: Collaborative Development of a Drought Information System to Support Local Decision-Making. Weather, Climate, and Society, 8, 345-359. doi:DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-15-0060.1
• Meadow, A. M., Ferguson, D. B., Guido, Z., Horangic, A., Owen, G., & Wall, T. (2015). Moving Toward the Deliberate Co-Production of Climate Science Knowledge. Weather, Climate, and Society, 7, 179-191. doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00050.1
• Meadow, A. M., Crimmins, M. A., & Ferguson, D. B. (2013). Field of Dreams or Dream Team? Assessing Two Models for Drought Impact Reporting in the Semiarid Southwest.

Presentations

• Ferguson, D. B., Wilmer, H., & Meadow, A. M. (2020, November). Expanding Research Ethics in the Era of Transdisciplinary Research. Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Actional Science Skills-Building Webinar Series.Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center.
• Jennings, L. L., Ferguson, D. B., Carroll, S. R., Erickson, K., Johnson, N., & Jager, M. E. (2021). Co-producing Knowledge in a Time of Rapid Change: Lessons from the Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network. GC52C session Social and Ecological Consequences of Recent Changes in the Arctic and Subarctic Region I Oral session at the American Geophysical Union Conference.
• Ferguson, D. B., Meadow, A. M., & Wilmer, H. (2020). Expanding Research Ethics in the Era of Transdisciplinary Research. Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Actionable Science Webinar Series. online: Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center - University of Washington.
• Crimmins, M. A., & Ferguson, D. B. (2018, June). Recent Drought and Long Terms Trends in the Four Corners. HOPI DROUGHT TASK TEAM MEETING. Kykotsmovi, AZ: Hopi Department of Natural Resources.
• Lopez Hoffman, L., Feng, X., Huang, T., Lien, A., Swann, A. L., Breshears, D. D., Soto, J. R., Baldwin, E., Nuñez-Regueiro, M. M., Dang, T., Park, D. T., Merideth, R., Ferguson, D. B., Enquist, B. J., & Ernst, K. C. (2018, June). Crops in a Changing World: Hidden Forest-Agriculture Teleconnections. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. Jyväskylä, Finland: European Congress of Conservation Biology.
• Ferguson, D. B., Crimmins, M. A., McKellar, T., Schaap, M. G., Rasmussen, C., Rasmussen, C., McKellar, T., Schaap, M. G., Crimmins, M. A., & Ferguson, D. B. (2017, September). Evaluating Existing and Developing New Drought Indices Using Modeled Soil Moisture Time Series. Climate Assessment for the Southwest - New Project Showcase. Tucson, AZ: Climate Assessment for the Southwest.
• Ferguson, D. B., Rasmussen, C., Schaap, M. G., McKellar, T., & Crimmins, M. A. (2017, March). Evaluating drought indices using modeled soil moisture time series. Climate Assessment for the Southwest Spring Meeting. Tucson, AZ: Climate Assessment for the Southwest.
• Woodhouse, C. A., Brice, R., Crimmins, M. A., Griffin, D., Faulstich, H., & Ferguson, D. B. (2014, April). Three-Season Hydroclimatic Variability from Tree Rings in the Four Corners Region, USA. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: Association of American Geographers.
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  The seasonal precipitation regime of the Four Corners region of the southwestern US includes a winter wet season and a summer monsoon. The two precipitation seasons are broken by a typically dry fore-summer that precedes the onset of the monsoon in early July. Dryland agriculture and grazing are practiced on tribal lands here; conditions over these three seasons are highly influential to the success of crops and rangeland conditions. Recent decades have been characterized by repeated intervals of severe drought in one or both of the two precipitation seasons, occasionally alleviated by wet fore-summer conditions. The instrumental record provides a subset of the climate conditions possible under natural variability. Tree-ring based reconstructions of cool-season and monsoon precipitation for past centuries have been generated for this region, providing a long-term perspective on the range of drought conditions possible. Here, we investigate the potential for reconstructing conditions in the pre-monsoon season, using not only precipitation totals, but hydroclimatic indices such as number of wet days and length of dry spells. By employing two species of conifers, Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), and chronologies generated from intra-annual ring widths, we take advantage of the range of climate sensitivities in the two species and earlywood and latewood growth. With a preliminary reconstruction, we evaluate seasonal sequences that occur most commonly, variations in sequences over time, and periods of persistent dry conditions in all three of these seasons that are so critical to tribal livelihoods and natural resources in this region.

Poster Presentations

• Martinez, A., Ferguson, D. B., & Rainie, S. C. (2017, December). The Role of Reconciling Values in Efforts to Build Community Resilience to Global Environmental Change. American Geophysical Union Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Others

• Crimmins, M., Ferguson, D. B., Weiss, J. L., & Faulstich, H. L. (2015, March). Hopi Climate: An Overview to Support Drought Monitoring and Management.
• Carroll, S. R., White, S., Yazzie, S., Lane, T., Curley, A., Ferguson, D. B., & David-Chavez, D. (2019, December). Dominique David-Chavez, Daniel B. Ferguson, Andrew Curley, Travis Lane+, Sheldwin Yazzie, Sarah White,Policy Brief: Supporting Tribal Data Governance for Indigenous Community Climate Resilience.. Tucson: Native Nations Institute and Climate Assessment for the Southwest, University of Arizona..
• Meadow, A., Black, M., Crimmins, M. A., Ferguson, D. B., & Weiss, J. L. (2016, July). Climate Profile of Gila River Indian Community. Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions - Native Nations Climate Adaptation Program.
• Meadow, A., Black, M., Crimmins, M. A., Ferguson, D. B., & Weiss, J. L. (2016, October). Climate Profile of the Pueblo of Sandia. Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions - Native Nations Climate Adaptation Program.
• Crimmins, M. A., Weiss, J. L., Ferguson, D. B., & Faulstich, H. (2015, May). Hopi Climate: An Overview to Support Drought Monitoring and Management. Climate Assessment for the Southwest. http://www.climas.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/pdfclimas-report-finalprint.pdf
• Ferguson, D. B., Rice, J., & Woodhouse, C. (2014, 2014). Linking Environmental Research and Practice: Lessons from the Integration of Climate Science and Water Management in the Western United States. http://www.climas.arizona.edu/publication/report/linking-environmental-research-and-practice