This is a Leverhume Trust Funded Collaborative Academic Network
Mexican Climate Change Network
The aim of the network is to foster dialogue between individuals working on Mexican climate change and to draw on internationally recognised expertise in dendroclimatology, palaeolimnology, climate history and modern climatology, with the following objectives:
- to improve understanding of the climatic mechanisms that cause drought across Mexico and how these vary spatially;
- to identify past, present and future impacts of, and responses to, drought in Mexico;
- to develop a more comprehensive understanding of climate change and its impacts across Mexico on a range of time scales.
The network will facilitate the integration and development of research at the forefront of climate change studies, will develop a greater appreciation of climate change in Mexico on a range of time scales and will establish a research agenda and an academic interchange, enabling future collaborative research in this field.
Boston 2008
Georgina Endfield, David Nash and Cary Mock organised a set of five Climate history sessions at the recent Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston USA, April 2008. See here for abstracts.
Information
Conferences
Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, April, 2008 (Title and abstracts of papers - Members only)
Seminar at Nottingham University by Dr Cary Mock (South Carolina University, USA) visited the School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK on the 11th and 12th October 2007
AGU (American Geophysical Union) conference in Acapulco, Mexico held in May 2007
Endfield, GH and Beer, N (2007) Multidisciplinary Investigations of Climate Change in Mexico: Reports from a Collaborative Academic Network Abstract. This paper was presented by Nick Beer at the above conference
January 2007 workshop 8th-10th January 2007, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
April 2006 workshop Multidisciplinary investigations of climate change in Mexico, University of Nottingham
Sources of information
Bibliographic listing - 03-12-2007
Papers in the download area 24-04-2007
Updated Links page 03-12-2007
A facinating story about the oldest American can be found at http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk/. The discovery of 40,000 year old human footprints in Central Mexico has challenged accepted theories on when and how humans first colonised the Americas.
Climate Change has published a special issue on Climate and Cultural History in the Americas, guest edited by Henry Diaz and Dave Stahle
Diaz, HF and David W. Stahle (2007) Climate and cultural history in the Americas: An overview. Climatic Change, 83, 1-8
Endfield, H, (2007) Archival explorations of climate variability and social
vulnerability in colonial Mexico. Climatic
Change, 83, 9-38
del Rosario Prieto, M. (2007) ENSO signals in South America: rains and floods in the Paraná River region during colonial times Climatic Change, 83, 39-54
García-Herrera, R Gimeno, L Ribera, P, Hernández, E, González, E and Fernández, G (2007) Identification of Caribbean basin hurricanes from Spanish documentary sources Climatic Change, 83, 55-85
Mock, CJ, Mojzisek, J, McWaters, M, Chenoweth, M and David W. Stahle (2007) The winter of 1827–1828 over eastern North America: a season of extraordinary climatic anomalies, societal impacts, and false spring Climatic Change, 83, 87-115
Villanueva-Diaz, J, Stahle, D, Luckman, BH, Cerano-Paredes, J, Therrell, MD, Cleaveland, MK, and Cornejo-Oviedo, E (2007) Winter-spring precipitation reconstructions from tree rings for northeast Mexico Climatic Change, 83, 117-131
Stahle, DW, Fye, FK, Cook, ER, and Griffin, RD (2007) Tree-ring reconstructed megadroughts over North America since a.d. 1300 Climatic Change, 83, 133-149
Mendoza, B, García-Acosta, V, Velasco, V, Jáuregui, E, and Díaz-Sandoval, R (2007) Frequency and duration of historical droughts from the 16th to the 19th centuries in the Mexican Maya lands, Yucatan Peninsula Climatic Change, 83, 151-168
Metcalfe, S and Davies, S (2007) Deciphering recent climate change in central Mexican lake records Climatic Change, 83, 169-186
Benson, L, Petersen, K, and Stein, J (2007) Anasazi (Pre-Columbian Native-American) Migrations During The Middle-12Th and Late-13th Centuries – Were they Drought Induced? Climatic Change, 83, 187-213
Hodell, DA, Brenner, M and Curtis, JH (2007) Climate and cultural history of the Northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico Climatic Change, 83, 215-240
Graham, NE, Hughes, MK, Ammann, CM, Cobb, KM, Hoerling, MP, Kennett, DJ, Kennett, JP, Rein, B, Stott, L, Wigand, PE and Xu, T (2007) Tropical Pacific – mid-latitude teleconnections in medieval times Climatic Change 83, 241-285
For further details please contact:
Dr Georgina Endfield
T: 0115 95 15731
georgina.endfield@nottingham.ac.uk