Christopher J. Crawford
I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. In September 2010, I was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. Prior to my current position at UMN, I was a lecturer for the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and a forestry technician and wildland firefighter for the White River and Salmon-Challis National Forests in Colorado and Idaho.
I am an earth systems scientist, and my research focuses on topics related to mountain climatology, the cryosphere, climate variability and change, and paleoclimatology. My expertise includes remote sensing, GIS/spatial analysis, dendrochronology and dendroclimatology, and low-frequency climate variability.
I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, specifically Boones Mill, VA, but I have also lived in Knoxville, TN, Basalt, CO, Salmon, ID, Blacksburg, VA, Charlotte, NC, and currently, Minneapolis, MN. I hold a M.Sc. in Geography from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a BS in Forest Resources from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Here is my [CV.pdf], [Short_CV.pdf]
Contact Information
email: crawf188@umn.edu
phone: 612-625-8949 or
612-625-7375
web: http://z.umn.edu/cjcrawford
Department of Geography
University of Minnesota
414 Social Sciences
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
