Dr. David Frank - Personal Homepage

teamleader Organisational unit: Landscape Dynamics Dendroclimatology Phone: +41 44 7392 282 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi HL C 44 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Education
University of Bern (Fall 2002 – Summer 2005)
Ph.D., Natural Sciences, 2005

State University of New York at Buffalo (Fall 1996 – Summer 1998)
M.A., Geology, 1998

State University of New York at Buffalo (Fall 1992 – Spring 1996)
B.A., Geology, 1996

Positions
Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL
Group Leader. (Summer 2006 – present)

Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL
Scientific Researcher. (Summer 2005 – Summer 2006)

Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL
Doctoral Student Researcher. (Fall 2002 – Summer 2005)

Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Senior Research Assistant in the Tree-Ring Laboratory. (Fall 1998 – Fall 2002)

State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Geology
Field Assistant and Collaborator in Southeastern Alaska. (Summers 1998, 1996 & 1995)

Brookhaven National Laboratory
Junior Research Assistant in a Solid State Physics Laboratory. (January 1994, Summers 1993 & 1992)

Research Interests
Dendrochronology / Dendroclimatology
Methods of Climate Reconstruction
Intra-seasonal assessment of tree-growth

Current Projects
Millennium (European Union, 2007- 2010)
EXTRACT - NCCR-Climate (Swiss National Science Foundation, 2006 - 2009)
ECLID (MAIF-Foundation, 2007 - 2009)
Lötschental Transect (WSL)