Timothy Beach is a Guggenheim, Dumbarton Oaks, and AAAS Fellow. He holds a Centennial Chair in US Mexican Relations and is a Professor and Directs the Soils and Geoarchaeology Labs in Geography & Environment at UT Austin. His research ranges from soil profiles to watersheds from the Pleistocene to the present, especially in the Maya and Mediterranean worlds. He has authored hundreds of publications (e.g., Science, Nature, PNAS) and given invited lectures around the world.