Sheri Fritz

Sheri Fritz is a Willa Cather Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and School of Biological Sciences. She is also codirector of 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. In fall 2007 she was selected to give the Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture at UNL; this article elaborates on a portion of that lecture, which focused on long-term environmental change.