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Mrs Emily Reid

Tree-Ring Lab Technician and Manager

Email

er60@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Emily graduated from the University of 58³Ô¹Ï with a first class degree in Environmental Science (BSc) where she discovered her passion for climatology, and more specifically, climate proxies. Following graduation she had the opportunity to work as a tree ring laboratory technician for a project investigating the increasing frequency of droughts in South America.  This experience contributed to her being awarded a Carnegie PhD Scholarship to study here at 58³Ô¹Ï under the supervision of Dr Rob Wilson. 

The primary focus of Emily’s research is to use tree-ring records as a proxy of climate in order to develop a 1000+ year long summer temperature reconstruction from the Southern Yukon in Canada. Currently, only 3 records from the high latitude boreal forest go back this far, which impedes our ability to fully understand processes that have driven climate in the pre-industrial era. Emily hopes that by sampling preserved tree stems from within the region, incorporating existing tree-ring data, and utilising developing methods, that she can fill this spatial gap and provide vital climate information and place modern warming in the context of past climate variations.

Selected publications

• Open access
  Mifsud, D. V., Mills, C. M., Crone, A., Abernethy, R., Reid, E. & Wilson, R., 1 Aug 2026, In: Dendrochronologia. 98, 10 p., 126545.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Kunz, M., Torbenson, M. C. A., Reinig, F., Martinez del Castillo, E., Büntgen, U., Wilson, R., Homfeld, I. K., King, G., Reid, E., Anchukaitis, K. J., Trouet, V., King, K. E., Harley, G. L., Maxwell, J. T., Csank, A., Broadman, E., Kuhl, E., Edwards, J., Römer, P. & Günther, B. & 2 others, Gerber, C. & Esper, J., May 2026, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 131, 5, p. 1-18 18 p., e2026JG009783.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Homfeld, I. K., Reinig, F., del Castillo, E. M., Torbenson, M. C. A., Konter, O., Wilson, R., Krusic, P. J., Loader, N. J., Grudd, H., Reid, E., Letherbarrow, K. & Esper, J., 1 Oct 2025, In: Trees: Structure and Function. 39, 5, 12 p., 101.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Reid, E., Luckman, B., Kunz, M., Esper, J., D'Arrigo, R., Leland, C. & Wilson, R., 20 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Holocene. OnlineFirst, 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Kunz, M., Wilson, R., Reid, E., Kuhl, E. & Esper, J., 1 Dec 2025, In: Dendrochronologia. 94, 12 p., 126399.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Zheng, Y., Wilson, R., Wang, M. & Reid, E., 1 Dec 2025, In: Dendrochronologia. 94, 11 p., 126420.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Leland, C., D’Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Anchukaitis, K. J., Andreu-Hayles, L., Porter, T. J., Galloway, T., Mant, M., Wiles, G., Wilson, R., Beaulieu, S., Oelkers, R., Gaglioti, B., Rao, M. P., Reid, E. & Nixon, T., 8 May 2023, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38, 5, 18 p., e2022PA004581.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Reid, E. & Wilson, R., Jun 2020, In: Dendrochronologia. 61, 125706.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review