Chris Guiterman is a Lecturer in the Irving Institute's Master of Energy Transition, where he teaches "Climate Science and the Energy Transition" and is a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College. Chris is also a Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an affiliate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA's NCEI). Chris received a bachelor's in geology from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, a Master of Science in Forestry from the University of Maine, Orono, and a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
 

His research explores the effects of climate change on forest dynamics, the drivers of forest disturbance regimes, and the interactions among these processes and human activities. He specializes in the use of dendrochronology to reconstruct historical fire regimes, climate variability, tree recruitment dynamics, and insect defoliation outbreaks. Chris is a member of the NOAA-based World Data Service for Paleoclimatology that manages and publicly disseminates 18 paleoenvironmental data types from across the globe. He is also a co-lead on the North American Fire Scar Network, the largest collection of tree-ring based fire history datasets, including over 2,500 sites with more than 36,000 trees spanning the North American continent. Much of Chris's research has been use-inspired, aiming to benefit stakeholders, including resource managers on Native American Nations, while progressing scientific understanding.