Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory

• Sturt Manning
• Peter Kuniholm
• Peter Brewer
• Carol Griggs
• Charlotte Pearson
• Tomasz Wazny
• Research Aides
• PhD Students

Peter Brewer

Tel. (Lab): 607-255-8650
Email: p.brewer@cornell.edu

Education

• Ph.D. - Bioinformatics - University of Reading, 2003.
• M.Sc. - Geoarchaeology - University of Reading, 2000.
• B.Sc. (Hons.) - Botany - University of Reading, 1999.

Previous Positions

• Species 2000 and Catalogue of Life Systems Manager, 2005-2007.
• BiodiversityWorld (BDWorld) - UK eScience Research Project, 2003-2005.

Research Interests

• The application of informatics in the fields of biology and archaeology, specifically the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and databases.
• The adoption of data standards and interoperability within the biological and archaeological communities including the Tree Ring Data Standard (TRiDaS).
• Modeling the effect of palaeo and future climate change on the distribution of species.

Selected Publications

• PEARSON, C. L., DALE, D. S., BREWER, P. W., SALZER, M. W., LIPTON, J. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) Dendrochemistry of White Mountain Bristlecone pines - an investigation via Synchrotron Radiation Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114: G01023 [URL].
• PEARSON, C. L., DALE, D. S., BREWER, P. W., KUNIHOLM, P. I., LIPTON, J. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) Dendrochemical analysis of a tree-ring growth anomaly associated with the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 1206-1214 [URL].
• MUÑOZ, M., DE GIOVANNI, R., DE SIQUEIRA, M., SUTTON, T., BREWER, P. W., SCACHETTI PEREIRA, R., CANHOS, D. & CANHO, V. (2009) OpenModeller: a generic approach to species’ potential distribution modelling. Geoinformatica, [URL].
• JANSMA, E., BREWER, P. W. & ZANDHUIS, I. (2009) TRiDaS 1.1: The tree ring data standard. Dendrochronologia, in press:
• ECKARDT, H., BREWER, P. W., HAY, S. & POPPY, S. (2009) Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Britannia, 40:
• BREWER, P. W., STURGEON, K., MADAR, L. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) A new approach to dendrochronological data management. Dendrochronologia, in press:
• YESSON, C., BREWER, P. W., SUTTON, T., CAITHNESS, N., PAHWA, J., BURGESS, M., GRAY, W., WHITE, R., JONES, A., BISBY, F. & CULHAM, A. (2007) How Global is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility? PLoS ONE, 2: e1124 [PDF] [URL].
• BISBY, F. A., ROSKOV, Y. R., RUGGIERO, M. A., ORRELL, T. M., PAGLINAWAN, L. E., BREWER, P. W., BAILLY, N. & VAN HERTUM, J. (2007) Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist CD-ROM Reading, Species 2000 [URL].
• PAHWA, J. S., BREWER, P. W., YESSON, C., SUTTON, T., BURGESS, M., XU, X., JONES, A. C., WHITE, R. J., GRAY, W. A., FIDDIAN, N. J., BISBY, F. A., CULHAM, A., CAITHNESS, N., SCOBLE, M., WILLIAMS, P. & BHAGWAT, S. (2006) BiodiversityWorld: A problem-solving environment for analysing biodiversity patterns. IEEE Computer Society CCGrid 2006 Conference Proceedings,
• JONES, A. C., WHITE, R. J., GRAY, W. A., BISBY, F. A., CAITHNESS, N., PITTAS, N., XU, X., SUTTON, T., FIDDIAN, N. J., CULHAM, A., SCOBLE, M., WILLIAMS, P., BROMLEY, O., BREWER, P. W., YESSON, C. & S, B. (2005) Building a Biodiversity GRID. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 140-151 [URL].
• WHITE, R., BISBY, F., CAITHNESS, N., SUTTON, T., BREWER, P. W., WILLIAMS, P., CULHAM, A., SCOBLE, M., JONES, A., GRAY, W., FIDDIAN, N., PITTAS, N., XU, X., BROMLEY, O. & VALDEZ, P. (2003) The BiodiversityWorld environment as an extensible virtual laboratory for analysing biodiversity patterns IN: Cox, S. J. Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. 341-344.