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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. He has over twenty-one years of experience teaching, having previously held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Geography at Georgetown University. His research interests include geoarchaeology, soils, climate history, geomorphology, and paleoenvironments, with extensive fieldwork conducted in regions such as the Corn Belt, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Syria, Turkey, Iceland, Colombia, Peru, Italy, and Germany. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, USAID, Georgetown University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has presented hundreds of scientific presentations worldwide. Beach has received awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Society of America, and the Distinguished Research Award from Georgetown University. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Geographers, and the Geological Society of America. In 2017, he delivered an invited lecture at the Vatican's Conference on Biological Extinctions, and was named a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2025-2028.
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