View of Blair Lake, Willamette National Forest (Oregon), July 2012
Megan's current curriculum vitae
Research Publications
McKenney, G.A. and Walsh, M.K. (2024). Late Holocene high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Beaver Lake in the northwest lowlands of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA). Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.03.009
Brown, K.J., Dietz, E., Walsh, M.K., Hennebelle, A., Power, M.J. (2024). Charred particles and other paleofire proxies. In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.
McCutcheon, P. T., Ferry, J.D., Burtchard, G.C., Walsh, M.K. (2023). An approach for explaining technological and functional variation between four montane lithic assemblages near Mount Rainier, Washington. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 57(2), 167-193.
Mark, S. Z., Abbott, M. B., Steinman, B. A., Fernandez, A., Wise, E. K., Walsh, M. K., Whitlock, C. (2023). A link between hydroclimate variability
and biomass burning during the last millennium in the interior Pacific Northwest. Geophysical Research Letters 50: e2023GL105202.
Walsh, M.K., Haydon, K.C., Swedberg, D. (2023). Postglacial fire and vegetation history from Doheney Lake in the Sinlahekin Wildlife
Area, Okanogan County, Washington (USA). Northwest Science 96(1–2): 1-21.
Walsh, M.K., Anderson, K., Deardorff, E., Johnson, S., Kim, D., Mitre, R., Morrey, T., Nurmi, S., Ojeda, D., Telfer, L., Tumin-Roberts, J. (2021). Evaluating best practices for macroscopic charcoal-based fire history reconstructions through a research experience for undergraduates. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 83: 98-119.
Wetherell, L.R., Ely, L.L., Roering, J.J., Walsh, M.K., Burchfield, M.J., Nace, K.E., Wetherell, M.M., Struble, W.T. (2021). Quantifying sedimentation patterns of small landslide-dammed lakes in the central Oregon Coast Range. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.5106.
Rushton, Z.A. and Walsh, M.K. (2021). Holocene fire history reconstruction of a mid-elevation mixed-conifer forest in the eastern Cascades, Washington (USA). The Holocene 3(5): 778-790.
Walsh, M.K., Duke, H.J., Haydon, K.C. (2018). Toward a better understanding of climate and human impacts on late Holocene fire regimes in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Progress in Physical Geography 42: 478-512.
Walsh, M.K., Lukens, M.L., McCutcheon, P.T., Burtchard, G.C. (2017). Fire-climate-human interactions during the postglacial period at Sunrise Ridge, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington (USA). Quaternary Science Reviews 177: 246-264.
Walsh, M.K., Marlon, J.R., Goring, S., Brown, K.J., Gavin, D.G. (2015). A regional perspective on Holocene fire–climate–human interactions in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105, 1135-1157.
Walsh, M.K., Prufer, K.M, Culleton, B.J., and Kennett, D.J. (2014). A late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Agua Caliente, southern Belize, linked to regional climate variability and cultural change at the Maya polity of Uxbenká. Quaternary Research 82, 38-50.
Walsh, M.K. (2014). Teaching geographic field methods using paleoecology. Journal of Geography 113, 97-106.
Marlon, J.R., Bartlein, P.J., Long, C., Gavin, D., Anderson, R.S., Briles, C.E., Colombaroli, D., Brown, K.J., Hallett, D.J., Power, M.J., Scharf, E., Walsh, M.K. (2012). A long-term perspective on wildfires in the western US. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 3203-3205.
Power, M.J., Mayle, F.E., Bartlein, P.J., Marlon, J.R., Anderson, R.S., Behling, H., Brown, K.J., Carcaillet, C., Colombaroli, D., Gavin, D.G., Hallett, D.J., Horn, S.P., Kennedy, L.M., Lane, C., Long, C., Moreno, P.I., Paitre, C., Robinson, G., Taylor, Z., Walsh, M. 2012. Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after AD 1500. The Holocene, 23: 3-13.
Marlon, J.R., Cui, Q., Gaillard, M. -J., McWethy, D., Walsh, M. (2010). Humans and fire: Consequences of anthropogenic burning during the past 2 ka. PAGES News 18, 80-82.
Walsh, M.K., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J. (2010). 1200 years of fire and vegetation history in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and Washington, reconstructed using high-resolution macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297, 273-289.
Kennett, D.J., Piperno, D.R., Jones, J.G., Neff, H., Voorhies, B., Walsh, M.K., Culleton, B.J. (2010). Pre-pottery agriculturalists on the Pacific Coast of Southwest Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 3401-3411.
Walsh, M.K., Pearl, C.A., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Worona, M. (2010). An 11,000-year-long fire and vegetation history from Beaver Lake, central Willamette Valley, Oregon. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 1093-1106.
Reynolds, R.L., Mordecai, J.S., Rosenbaum, J.G., Ketterer, M.E., Walsh, M.K., Moser, K.A. (2010). Compositional changes in sediments of subalpine lakes, Uinta Mountains (Utah): evidence for the effect of human activity on atmospheric dust inputs. Journal of Paleolimnology 44, 161-175.
Marlon, J.R., Bartlein, P.J., Walsh, M.K., Harrison, S.P., Brown, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Higuera, P.E., Power, M.J., Anderson, R.S., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Carcaillet, C., Daniels, M., Hu, F.S., Lavoie, M., Long, C., Minckley, T., Richard, P.J.H., Shafer, D.S., Tinner, W., Umbanhowar, Jr., C.E., Whitlock, C. (2009). Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106, 2519-2524.
Power M.J., et al. (2008). Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data. Climate Dynamics 30, 887-907.
Walsh, M.K. (2008). Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Holocene Fire and Vegetation History of the Willamette Valley, Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon, Eugene.
Walsh, M.K., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J. (2008). A 14,300-year-long record of fire-vegetation-climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington. Quaternary Research 70, 251-264.
Whitlock, C., Bianchi, M.M., Bartlein, P.J., Markgraf, V., Marlon, J., Walsh, M., McCoy, N. (2006). Postglacial vegetation, climate, and fire history along the east side of the Andes (lat 41-42.5°S), Argentina. Quaternary Research 66, 187-201.
Walsh, M.K. (2005). Vegetation history of the southern Willamette Valley. In: Mount Pisgah Arboretum Guidebook: A Natural History of the Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon, 11th Edition, (Rhoda M. Love, ed.), pp. 140-146.
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Bianchi, M.M., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Long, C., Markgraf, V., Marlon, J. Meeker, C., Power, M., Walsh, M. (2003). Disturbance frequency changes in western North and South America during the Holocene. EOS Transactions 84.
Walsh, M.K. (2002). Fire History of Two Selected Sites in the Spruce-Fir Life Zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah, Determined Using Macroscopic Charcoal Analysis. Master’s Thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McKenney, G.A. and Walsh, M.K. (2024). Late Holocene high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Beaver Lake in the northwest lowlands of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA). Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.03.009
Brown, K.J., Dietz, E., Walsh, M.K., Hennebelle, A., Power, M.J. (2024). Charred particles and other paleofire proxies. In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.
McCutcheon, P. T., Ferry, J.D., Burtchard, G.C., Walsh, M.K. (2023). An approach for explaining technological and functional variation between four montane lithic assemblages near Mount Rainier, Washington. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 57(2), 167-193.
Mark, S. Z., Abbott, M. B., Steinman, B. A., Fernandez, A., Wise, E. K., Walsh, M. K., Whitlock, C. (2023). A link between hydroclimate variability
and biomass burning during the last millennium in the interior Pacific Northwest. Geophysical Research Letters 50: e2023GL105202.
Walsh, M.K., Haydon, K.C., Swedberg, D. (2023). Postglacial fire and vegetation history from Doheney Lake in the Sinlahekin Wildlife
Area, Okanogan County, Washington (USA). Northwest Science 96(1–2): 1-21.
Walsh, M.K., Anderson, K., Deardorff, E., Johnson, S., Kim, D., Mitre, R., Morrey, T., Nurmi, S., Ojeda, D., Telfer, L., Tumin-Roberts, J. (2021). Evaluating best practices for macroscopic charcoal-based fire history reconstructions through a research experience for undergraduates. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 83: 98-119.
Wetherell, L.R., Ely, L.L., Roering, J.J., Walsh, M.K., Burchfield, M.J., Nace, K.E., Wetherell, M.M., Struble, W.T. (2021). Quantifying sedimentation patterns of small landslide-dammed lakes in the central Oregon Coast Range. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.5106.
Rushton, Z.A. and Walsh, M.K. (2021). Holocene fire history reconstruction of a mid-elevation mixed-conifer forest in the eastern Cascades, Washington (USA). The Holocene 3(5): 778-790.
Walsh, M.K., Duke, H.J., Haydon, K.C. (2018). Toward a better understanding of climate and human impacts on late Holocene fire regimes in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Progress in Physical Geography 42: 478-512.
Walsh, M.K., Lukens, M.L., McCutcheon, P.T., Burtchard, G.C. (2017). Fire-climate-human interactions during the postglacial period at Sunrise Ridge, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington (USA). Quaternary Science Reviews 177: 246-264.
Walsh, M.K., Marlon, J.R., Goring, S., Brown, K.J., Gavin, D.G. (2015). A regional perspective on Holocene fire–climate–human interactions in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105, 1135-1157.
Walsh, M.K., Prufer, K.M, Culleton, B.J., and Kennett, D.J. (2014). A late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Agua Caliente, southern Belize, linked to regional climate variability and cultural change at the Maya polity of Uxbenká. Quaternary Research 82, 38-50.
Walsh, M.K. (2014). Teaching geographic field methods using paleoecology. Journal of Geography 113, 97-106.
Marlon, J.R., Bartlein, P.J., Long, C., Gavin, D., Anderson, R.S., Briles, C.E., Colombaroli, D., Brown, K.J., Hallett, D.J., Power, M.J., Scharf, E., Walsh, M.K. (2012). A long-term perspective on wildfires in the western US. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 3203-3205.
Power, M.J., Mayle, F.E., Bartlein, P.J., Marlon, J.R., Anderson, R.S., Behling, H., Brown, K.J., Carcaillet, C., Colombaroli, D., Gavin, D.G., Hallett, D.J., Horn, S.P., Kennedy, L.M., Lane, C., Long, C., Moreno, P.I., Paitre, C., Robinson, G., Taylor, Z., Walsh, M. 2012. Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after AD 1500. The Holocene, 23: 3-13.
Marlon, J.R., Cui, Q., Gaillard, M. -J., McWethy, D., Walsh, M. (2010). Humans and fire: Consequences of anthropogenic burning during the past 2 ka. PAGES News 18, 80-82.
Walsh, M.K., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J. (2010). 1200 years of fire and vegetation history in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and Washington, reconstructed using high-resolution macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297, 273-289.
Kennett, D.J., Piperno, D.R., Jones, J.G., Neff, H., Voorhies, B., Walsh, M.K., Culleton, B.J. (2010). Pre-pottery agriculturalists on the Pacific Coast of Southwest Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 3401-3411.
Walsh, M.K., Pearl, C.A., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Worona, M. (2010). An 11,000-year-long fire and vegetation history from Beaver Lake, central Willamette Valley, Oregon. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 1093-1106.
Reynolds, R.L., Mordecai, J.S., Rosenbaum, J.G., Ketterer, M.E., Walsh, M.K., Moser, K.A. (2010). Compositional changes in sediments of subalpine lakes, Uinta Mountains (Utah): evidence for the effect of human activity on atmospheric dust inputs. Journal of Paleolimnology 44, 161-175.
Marlon, J.R., Bartlein, P.J., Walsh, M.K., Harrison, S.P., Brown, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Higuera, P.E., Power, M.J., Anderson, R.S., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Carcaillet, C., Daniels, M., Hu, F.S., Lavoie, M., Long, C., Minckley, T., Richard, P.J.H., Shafer, D.S., Tinner, W., Umbanhowar, Jr., C.E., Whitlock, C. (2009). Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106, 2519-2524.
Power M.J., et al. (2008). Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data. Climate Dynamics 30, 887-907.
Walsh, M.K. (2008). Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Holocene Fire and Vegetation History of the Willamette Valley, Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon, Eugene.
Walsh, M.K., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J. (2008). A 14,300-year-long record of fire-vegetation-climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington. Quaternary Research 70, 251-264.
Whitlock, C., Bianchi, M.M., Bartlein, P.J., Markgraf, V., Marlon, J., Walsh, M., McCoy, N. (2006). Postglacial vegetation, climate, and fire history along the east side of the Andes (lat 41-42.5°S), Argentina. Quaternary Research 66, 187-201.
Walsh, M.K. (2005). Vegetation history of the southern Willamette Valley. In: Mount Pisgah Arboretum Guidebook: A Natural History of the Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon, 11th Edition, (Rhoda M. Love, ed.), pp. 140-146.
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Bianchi, M.M., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Long, C., Markgraf, V., Marlon, J. Meeker, C., Power, M., Walsh, M. (2003). Disturbance frequency changes in western North and South America during the Holocene. EOS Transactions 84.
Walsh, M.K. (2002). Fire History of Two Selected Sites in the Spruce-Fir Life Zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah, Determined Using Macroscopic Charcoal Analysis. Master’s Thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.