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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:

  1. to improve understanding of the climatic mechanisms that cause drought across Mexico and how these vary spatially;
  2. to identify past, present and future impacts of, and responses to, drought in Mexico;
  3. 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