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Tim Beach holds the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States-Mexico Relations and directs the Beach-Butzer Soils Geoarchaeology Labs at the University of Texas at Austin. With over twenty-one years of teaching experience, he previously held the Cinco Hermanos Chair at Georgetown University and directed the STIA Environmental Studies Programs. His field research focuses on soils, geomorphology, paleoecology, wetlands, climate change, and geoarchaeology across various regions including the Corn Belt, United States, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Syria, Turkey, Iceland, Colombia, Peru, Italy, and Germany. His research has been funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, and USAID. Professor Beach has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, with his publications mainly centered on long-term environmental change, soils, paleoclimate, and geoarchaeology in the Maya world. He is a Fellow of several prestigious societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, and has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including Georgetown University’s Distinguished Research Award and the Carl O Sauer Award in 2017.
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