Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Tim Beach is the former Cinco Hermanos Chair and Professor of Geography and Geoscience at Georgetown University, Director of Georgetown’s Program in Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA), and Head of its Center for the Environment.He has conducted field research with hundreds of students on geomorphology and geoarchaeology in the Corn Belt of the United States, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Syria, Turkey, Iceland, and Germany funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, USAID, and Georgetown University. These sixty plus field seasons have been the bases for more than eighty peer-reviewed publications and hundreds of scientific presentations and many keynote addresses around the world. His research focuses on soil and agricultural systems, geomorphology, water, environmental change, and geoarchaeology.