Shuman to Give UW Faculty Senate Speaker Series Presentation Dec. 3

Bryan Shuman, a University of Wyoming geology and geophysics professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair, is the fall semester Faculty Senate Speaker Series award recipient.

He will discuss “Increasing Wildfire and Declining Snow: Learning from the Past about the Future of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains” at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the Wyoming Union Family Room.

Shuman has been at UW since 2007 and uses geological evidence to examine how climate change affects water resources and ecosystems.

With his students and postdoctoral graduates, he reconstructs environmental dynamics across North America since the last ice age to evaluate the full range of climate variability and to test the climate models used to make future projections. Their work also reveals the role of climate variability in past ecosystem changes, particularly in lakes and forests, from Wyoming to New England.

He was co-lead of the 2021 Greater Yellowstone Climate Assessment and serves as one of the principal investigators leading the ongoing National Science Foundation-funded WyACT (Wyoming Anticipating the Climate Transitions) project, which aims to help Wyoming communities prepare for the future.

Shuman has received numerous awards, including the William S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America; the Henry C. Cowles Award from the American Association of Geographers; and an NSF CAREER grant.

He previously was a tenured faculty member at the University of Minnesota and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oregon.

Shuman earned degrees from Colorado College and Brown University.

UW’s Faculty Senate schedules a speaker for both the fall and spring semesters.

For more information about Shuman’s program, call the Faculty Senate office at (307) 766-5348.