Chris Guiterman is a forest and fire ecologist, with a Masters in Forestry from the University of Maine and a doctorate in Natural Resource Studies from the University of Arizona. His research interests include fire history, dendroecology, human-environmental interactions, and the vulnerabilities of forests to climate change and altered disturbance regimes. His current research is collaboration with Navajo Nation foresters to reconstruct recruitment and disturbance dynamics in old-growth ponderosa pine forests.