Brendan Buckley

 Brendan Buckley is a dendro climatologist and forest ecologist, based at the LDEO Tree Ring Lab since 1999, currently holding the position of Lamont Research Professor. He completed his undergraduate degree at Plymouth State College in his home state of New Hampshire, his Masters degree at Arizona State University, and his PhD at the University of Tasmania in Hobart Australia. Upon completion of his PhD, Buckley spent 18 months as a postdoctoral fellow in New Zealand, and another year at LDEO. He has worked internationally for his entire career, perhaps most notably in the forests of Southeast Asia where he has produced some of the world’s longest and best replicated tree ring records from tropical forest environments, from Vietnam’s central highlands. Buckley has been co-director of the Masters of Sustainability Science program for the past several years and teaches SUSCPS5020, A Science-based approach to Climate-Smart Forestry, as well as PS5410, Sustainability and Resilience of Tropical Highlands Ecosystems, which is conducted in Vietnam over the winter break. He has authored multiple peer reviewed papers and book chapters and secured research funding from multiple government agencies over the past three decades. Buckley has long been a champion of cross-disciplinary research, collaborating with historians, archaeologists, geochemists, ecophysiologists and forest ecologists.