Publications
Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Dunning, N., & Krause, S. (2020). Paleoecology, soil, and water in Maya history. In The Maya World. Routledge.
Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S., Guderjan, T., Valdez, F., Fernandez-Diaz, J. C., Eshleman, S., & Doyle, C. (2019). Ancient Maya wetland fields revealed under tropical forest canopy from laser scanning and multiproxy evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (43) , 21469–21477 .
Brokaw, N., Ward, S. E., Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Walling, S., Cortes-Rincon, M., & Valdez, F. (2025). The ancient Maya and the modern forest. Biotropica 57 (1) , e13370 . https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13370
Character, L., Beach, T., Inomata, T., Garrison, T. G., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Baldwin, J. D., Cambranes, R., Pinzón, F., & Ranchos, J. L. (2024). Broadscale deep learning model for archaeological feature detection across the Maya area. Journal of Archaeological Science 169 , 106022 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106022
Cook, D. E., Beach, T. P., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Dunning, N. P., & Smith, B. A. (2022). Long-Term Geomorphic Change in the Maya Lowlands of Central America. In Treatise on Geomorphology (Second Edition). Academic Press. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128182345001784
Cook, D. E., Beach, T. P., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Dunning, N. P., & Turner, S. D. (2022). Environmental legacy of pre-Columbian Maya mercury. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10 . https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.986119
Doyle, C., Beach, T., & Luzzadder-Beach, S. (2021). Tropical Forest and Wetland Losses and the Role of Protected Areas in Northwestern Belize, Revealed from Landsat and Machine Learning. Remote Sensing 13 (3) , 379 . https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030379
Doyle, C., Luzzadder-Beach, S., & Beach, T. (2022). Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 03091333221134185 . https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333221134185
Dunning, N. P., Ruhl, T., Carr, C., Beach, T., Brown, C., & Luzzadder-Beach, S. (2020). The ancient Maya wetland fields of Acalán. Mexicon 42 (4) , 91–105 .
Dunning, N., Beach, T., & Luzzadder-Beach, S. (2020). Ancient Maya agriculture. In The Maya World. Routledge.
Eshleman, S., & Beach, T. (2020). Soil fertility of cohune palm (Attalea cohune) dominant forests compared to non-cohune forests in northwestern Belize. Plant and Soil 452 (1) , 295-311 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04575-4
Guderjan, T., Kwoka, J., Hanratty, C., Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S., Eshleman, S., & Doyle, T. R. C. (2020). Early Onset Anthropocene: Control of the Landscape by the Ancient Maya in Northwestern Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 17 , 105-117 .
Harrison-Buck, E., Krause, S. M., Brouwer Burg, M., Willis, M., Perrotti, A., & Bailey, K. (2024). Late Archaic large-scale fisheries in the wetlands of the pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands. Science Advances 10 (47) , eadq1444 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq1444
Inomata, T., Fernandez-Diaz, J. C., Triadan, D., García Mollinedo, M., Pinzón, F., García Hernández, M., Flores, A., Sharpe, A., Beach, T., Hodgins, G. W. L., Durón Díaz, J. J., Guerra Luna, A., Guerrero Chávez, L., Hernández Jiménez, M. D. L., & Moreno Díaz, M. (2021). Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar. Nature Human Behaviour 5 (11) , 1487-1501 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01218-1
James, L. A., Beach, T. P., & Richter, D. D. (2021). Floodplain and Terrace Legacy Sediment as a Widespread Record of Anthropogenic Geomorphic Change. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3) , 742-755 . https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1835460
Krause, S., Beach, T. P., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Cook, D., Bozarth, S. R., Valdez, F., & Guderjan, T. H. (2021). Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene: Multiproxy reconstruction of environmental change in a Maya agroecosystem. Anthropocene 34 , 100284 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2021.100284
Ledesma, D. T., Scarpetta, S. G., Iii, J. J. J., Meza, A., & Kemp, M. E. (2024). Identification of Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossil lizards from Hall’s Cave (Kerr County, Texas) and a primer on morphological variation in North American lizard skulls. PLOS ONE 19 (8) , e0308714 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308714
Locker, A. J., Valdez, F., Breecker, D. O., Banner, J. L., Loewy, S. L., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Drake, S. M., Hyde, D. M., Trachman, R. M., & Lewis, B. S. (2023). Ancient Maya movement in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, NW Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49 , 104052 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104052
Luzzadder-Beach, S., Beach, T. P., & Dunning, N. P. (2021). Wetland Farming and the Early Anthropocene: Globally Upscaling from the Maya Lowlands with LiDAR and Multiproxy Verification. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3) , 795-807 . https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1820310
Mickler, P. J., Carlson, P., Banner, J. L., Breecker, D. O., Stern, L., & Guilfoyle, A. (2019). Quantifying carbon isotope disequilibrium during in-cave evolution of drip water along discreet flow paths. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 244 , 182-196 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.027
Moroz, M., Jackson, I. S. C., Ramirez, D., & Kemp, M. E. (2021). Divergent morphological responses to millennia of climate change in two species of bats from Hall’s Cave, Texas, USA. PeerJ 9 , e10856 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10856
Muñoz-Salinas, E., Cook, D., Castillo, M., Beach, T., & Luzzadder-Beach, S. (2023). Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 03091333231156506 . https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333231156506
Nordt, L., Breecker, D., & White, J. (2022). Jurassic greenhouse ice-sheet fluctuations sensitive to atmospheric CO2 dynamics. Nature Geoscience 15 (1) , 54-59 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00858-2
Rabinowitz, A. (2019). Communicating in Three Dimensions. Studies in Digital Heritage 3 (1) , 100–116 .
Sekhon, N., Beach, T., Krause, S., & Eshleman, S. (2021). Understanding climate trends in Central America through practical problem-based learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 45 (2) , 298–318 .
Taylor, R., O'Neill, E., Rinne, K. W., Isidori, G., O'Neill, M., & Gorham, R. B. (2020). A Recently Discovered Spring Source of the Aqua Traiana at Vicarello, Lazio. American Journal of Archaeology 124 (4) , 659-693 . https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.4.0659
Valdez, F. (Ed.) Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond. University Press of Colorado. https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/4167-sustainability-and-water-management-in-the-maya-world-and-beyond
Wells, G. H., Dugmore, A. J., Beach, T., Baynes, E. R., Sæmundsson, �., & Luzzadder-Beach, S. (2022). Reconstructing glacial outburst floods (jökulhlaups) from geomorphology: Challenges, solutions, and an enhanced interpretive framework. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 46 (3) , 398-421 . https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333211065001
Wright, S. L., Rayfield, K. M., Singleton, R. R., Hughes, K., Soficaru, A., Creţu, C., Huang, L., Wu, S., Reinberger, K. L., Rabinowitz, A., & Hofman, C. A. (2024). Ancient DNA and paleoproteomic analysis on Roman Imperial-era individuals from Histria, Romania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 56 , 104510 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104510
Zimmer, A., Beach, T., Klein, J. A., & Recharte Bullard, J. The need for stewardship of lands exposed by deglaciation from climate change. WIREs Climate Change n/a (n/a) , e753 . https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.753