A Long-Term Perspective on Drought History in the Great Plains
Sheri Fritz is a Willa Cather Professor at UNL with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and School of Biological Sciences. She co-directs the University-wide Water Resources Research Initiative. Fritz specializes in the reconstruction of past climate from lake sediments and presently has major projects in the Great Plains, the northern Rocky Mountains, and the tropical Andes of South America. She also studies modern lakes of the interior regions of North America.
This article first appeared in the December 2007 edition (Vol. 1, No. 6) of “Prairie Fire” newspaper. The publication is online at www.prairiefirenewspaper.com.
