Timothy Beach
Professor — Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Professor - C. B. Smith, Sr., Centennial Chair

Contact
- E-mail: beacht@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 232-2064
- Office: RLP 3.306
- Office Hours: please email
- Campus Mail Code: A3100
Interests
Geoarchaeology, Soils, Climate History, Geomorphology, and Paleoenvironments of the Maya World and Mediterranean
Biography
Tim Beach holds The C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States - Mexico Relations #2 and directs the Beach-Butzer Soils and Geoarchaeology Lab in Geography at the University of Texas at Austin. For twenty-one years, he taught at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair and was Professor of Geography and Geoscience and Director of the STIA and Environmental Studies Programs. He has conducted field research on soils, geomorphology, paleoecology, wetlands, and geoarchaeology in the Corn Belt of the United States, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Syria, Turkey, Iceland, Colombia, Italy, and Germany funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, USAID, The University of Texas at Austin, and Georgetown University. These field seasons have been the bases for more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles and chapters and hundreds of scientific presentations around the world. Most of his publications were on long-term environmental change, soils, paleoclimate, and geoarchaeology in the Maya world. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and awarded Guggenheim and Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships, the G.K. Gilbert Award in Geomorphology, Georgetown University’s Distinguished Research Award in 2010, Georgetown's School of Foreign Service's Faculty of the Year for Teaching Excellence in 2014, and the Carl O Sauer Award in 2017. In 2018 he was named a Distinguished Alumni from College of Behavioral and Social Sciences CSU Chico, which has more than 138,000 alumni around the world.