Ph.D. Student
Subject: Assessing non-stationary growth responses
Building 1272, Room 00-126
Johann-Joachim-Becher Weg 32
Phone: +49 6131 39-27003
E-Mail: ihomfeld@uni-mainz.de
Biographical data
- Since 08/2021 Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
- 01/2020 – 05/2021 Research Assistant, HYTRAC Lab, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Thesis: Extreme event reconstructions for the Upper Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada.
- 01/2019 – 05/2021 Studies in Geoscience (M. Sc.), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Thesis: Comparison of the contemporary growth of oak (Quercus robur L.) and growth 7000 cal. yr. BC in the south Baltic Sea region and analysis of mid-Holocene oak growth.
- 10/2014 – 11/2018 Studies in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation International (B. Sc.), Universität Greifswald
Publications
Spelsberg S, Büntgen U Homfeld IK, Kunz M, Martinez del Castillo E, Tejedor E, Torbenson M, Ziaco E, Esper J (in review) Climate signal age effects in Pinus uncinata tree-ring density data from the Spanish Pyrenees. Trees
2024
Homfeld I, Büntgen U, Reinig F, Torbenson MCA, Esper J (2024) Application of RCS and signal-free RCS to tree-ring width and maximum latewood density data. Dendrochronologia 85, 126205. (Homfeld_2024_Den.pdf)
2023
Heeter, K.J., Harley, G.L., Abatzoglou, J.T., Anchukaitis, K.J., Cook, E.R., Coulthard, B.L., Dye, L.A., Homfeld, I.K.; Unprecedented 21st century heat across the Pacific Northwest of North America. npj Clim Atmos Sci 6, 5 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00340-3
2022
Laura A. Dye, Jessie K. Pearl, Laura Smith, Bethany L. Coulthard, Cori Butkiewicz, Zane Cooper, James Degrand, Jared Friedman, Inga K. Homfeld, Hilary Howard, Leroy Ironcloud, and Shannon Wray, "Co-Occurring Wyoming Pinus Species Exhibit Differing Climate–Growth Relationships." Tree-Ring Research 78(1), 13-24, (2022). https://doi.org/10.3959/TRR2021-5
2021
Brice, Becky L., Bethany L. Coulthard, Inga K. Homfeld, Laura A. Dye, and Kevin J. Anchukaitis, "Paleohydrological context for recent floods and droughts in the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada." Environmental Research Letters 16, no. 12 (2021): 124074. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3daf
Conferences
06/2024 “Assessment of climate signal of multiple tree growth parameters in Pinus sylvestris”, TRACE 2024 Brasov (Climate sensitivity of tree growth session)
05/2023 "Using RCS and Signal Free RCS to preserve low frequency trends in tree-ring width and density chronologies ", TRACE 2023 Coimbra (Methods development session)
06/2022 "Freshet- and drought-season runoff reconstructions for the Fraser Basin Headwaters, British Columbia, Canada" AmeriDendro 2022 Montreal (Dendroclimatology session)
05/2022 "Freshet- and drought-season runoff reconstructions for the Fraser Basin Headwaters, British Columbia, Canada", TRACE 2022 Erlangen (Dendroclimatology session)
Teaching
Winter Term 2024/2025
M1/M1-ED Climate Geography
Winter Term 2023/2024
M1/M1-ED Climate Geography
Winter Term 2022/2023
M1/M1-ED Climate Geography
Research interests:
Dendroclimatology
Paleoclimatology
Dendrohydrology
Climate Change