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
Mexico Climate Change Network workshops
Second workshop meeting, 8th-10th January
2007, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
See the gallery area for post workshop field trip photographs.
Schedule of presentations
Sunday 7th: evening, (8pm approx): dinner at the Hacienda San Pedro Nohpat, Merida.
(all meetings in salon at Hacienda unless otherwise stated).
Monday 8th January
9.30 am. Introduction and welcome. Purpose of network/ second meeting.
Presentations
10.00am � 12.00am
Palaeoclimatology
David Hodell (University of Florida): Preliminary results of speleothem paleoclimatology in Yucatan, Mexico
Mark Brenner (University of Florida): Overview of the Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Program
Break
Sarah Metcalfe (University of Nottingham): Exploiting high resolution lake sediment records: an update from Juanacatl�n
Lorenzo V�zquez-Selem (UNAM): The glacial record of Mexico: state of knowledge and perspectives
Discussion
1pm Lunch
2.00pm- 4.00 pm
Climate and human histories
Matthew Therrell (University of Virginia): Records of drought and famine in Mexico
Georgina Hope Endfield (University of Nottingham): Chiaroscuro, climate and crisis in colonial Mexico: from the 1690s to the 1820s.
Break
Isabel Fernandez Tejedo (University of Nottingham): From climate change to water exhaustion in the Lerma-Chapala Basin
Rodolfo �Acu�a-Soto (UNAM): Epidemic disease and climate change in colonial Mexico
Discussion
Tuesday 9th January
9.00 a.m -10.30 am
Climate change in Northern Mexico
Mr Nicholas Beer (John Moores University, Liverpool): A review of Holocene palaeoclimate in Baja California, with an update from Babisuri Cave, Isla Espiritu Santo, Baja California Sur.
Tereza Cavasoz (CICESE, Ensenada): Observed trends of extreme events in Northwestern Mexico
Break
10.30am - 12.00am
Dendroclimatology and rainfall reconstruction
Dave Stahle (University of Arkansas): A 2000-year reconstruction of July precipitation in the northern sector of the North American Monsoon System.
Jos� Villanueva-Diaz (INIFAP): Winter-spring precipitation response of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in north-central Mexico.
Discussion
1pm Lunch
Tuesday 2.00pm-4.00pm
Contemporary/ future climate change: processes and perspectives
J Mat�as M�ndez (UNAM) Large scales circulations that result in drought over North America
Ernesto Caetano (UNAM) The role of tropical cyclones in Atlantic precipitation regime over North America
Break
V�ctor Maga�a (UNAM) The water cycle under climate change - an integrated perspective
Ben Brown (El Paso): New climates for Old. What I have learnt since I left school
Discussion
Wednesday 10th January
9.30 am:
Network futures roundtable
Consideration of sessions: AAG/AGU/ other.
Themes
Edited volumes/ special journal issues. Holocene proposal
Faculty/ student exchanges?
PM: Visit to the archaeological site of Oxkintok and then onto the cave at Calcehtok to watch the bat "exodus" at sunset.
Return to Hacienda in the evening.
Thursday 11th- Friday 12th January
Possible overnight fieldtrip for those able to come
Close
First Network Workshop April 2006, University of Nottingham
Multidisciplinary investigations of climate change in Mexico
The School of Geography hosted a workshop on 'Multidisciplinary investigations of climate change in Mexico', April 3rd-7th 2006.
The workshop represented the first in a series organised in the UK, USA and
Mexico and funded by a Leverhulme Trust Collaborative Academic Network grant
awarded to the School (led by Georgina Endfield (Nottingham), Victor Maga�a,
(Mexico City) and Dave Stahle, (Arkansas)). The workshops are designed to foster
dialogue, research links and collaboration between academics working in the
field of climatic change in Mexico. A number of internationally renowned scholars
from the USA (Arkansas), Mexico (Mexico City and Durango) and the UK (Aberystwyth,
UEA) will be attending the first workshop.
For further details please contact:
Dr Georgina Endfield
T: 0115 95 15731
georgina.endfield@nottingham.ac.uk
Workshop Schedule
Monday 3rd
5.30pm Buffet and Reception at the University Staff Club, University of Nottingham Campus
Tuesday 4th
NB All meetings unless otherwise stated will take place in Seminar Room C38, Sir Clive Granger Building (Economics and Geography)
9.30 am:
Introduction to the Mexico Climate Change Network; participant introductions;
plan for the first workshop and future prospects
11.00am: tea/ coffee and biscuits
11.30-1.00pm
Sarah Davies �Late Holocene records of human-environment interactions in
west-central Mexico�
Sarah Metcalfe and Matthew Jones �Holocene climatic change in west-central Mexico: interpreting a
high resolution record from the Laguna de Juanacatlan�
1pm Lunch
2.00pm- 3.30pm
Angela Lamb �Isotope-based palaeoclimate reconstructions from Lake Texcoco,
Basin of Mexico, at the site of Tepexpan man�.
Nick Beer � Palaeoenvironment and archaeology of shell middens in Baja California Sur, Mexico�.
3.30pm: Tea/ coffee and biscuits
4.00pm -5.30pm
Georgina Endfield �Archival explorations of climate variability and
weather events in colonial Mexico: lessons and stories from the past�
Isabel Fernandez Tejedo �Estrategias para el control del agua en Oaxaca colonial"
Close for the day. Evening meal for delegates in City Centre
Wednesday 5th
9.30 am- 11.00am
David Stahle �Tree-ring and paleoclimate research in Mexico."
Jose Villanueva Diaz �Historical Hydroclimate Varibility in Mexico from Tree Rings".
11am: Tea/ coffee and biscuits
11.30-1.00pm
Matthew Therrell "Tree RIng Records of Extreme Climate in Mexican History"
Rodolfo Acu�a-Soto �Drought and Epidemic Diseases in Central Mexico�.
1pm Lunch
2 pm- 3.30pm
Victor Maga�a, �Climate change in Mexico�
Ernesto Caetano �Climate variability in Mexico�
3.30 pm: Tea/ coffee and biscuits
4.00pm -5.30pm:
Juan Mathias Mendez �Meteorological drought analysis of Mexico�
Marco Flores �Regional or Local? An assessment of Mexican climatology using instrumental data�
Close for the day.
Choice of venue for evening meal
Thursday 6th
10.00-11.00am Network strategy meeting; forthcoming workshops/ structure/ outcomes
11.00 Coffee/ tea/ biscuits
12.30 � leave for fieldtrip to Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
(transport and packed lunch provided)
Directions
to University Park Campus
From London
From Gatwick you need to travel to London King's Cross
rail station via the "Gatwick Express" train. From there you
need to travel to London St Pancras station where trains leave for Nottingham
at least once an hour. It is estimated that the journey from Gatwick to
Nottingham takes 3 hours. You can book your rail tickets with http://www.midlandmainline.com
From London Heathrow travel to London Paddington and
then onto London St Pancreas. You can plan your journey using http://www.nationalrail.co.uk
From East Midlands Airport (approximately 10 miles)
You can take Trent and Barton Bus 5b, or the Nottingham
City Bus Runway 5. Buses leave from outside the Airport Arrivals hall.
You can also walk to the taxi rank on the terminal forecourt and take
a direct taxi to the University. The cost of a single/one way journey
is approximately £20. Taxis are normally available 24 hours.
From M1 Motorway:
Leave the M1 motorway at Junction 25 to join the A52 to Nottingham.
Turn right at The Priory roundabout (about 4 miles from M1), then left
at next roundabout to enter the University's West Entrance.
From Nottingham (approximately 3 miles)
By Bus: From Broadmarsh bus station (about 250 metres walk from the railway
station), catch one of the following Trent and Barton buses:
North and West Entrances to the University: Rainbow 5a
East, South and West Entrances: Rainbow 5, 5b, 18, 32
The following Nottingham City Transport services also pass near or through
the campus and can be picked up from stops near the Market Square in the
City Centre. The location in brackets pin points where they stop near
the University.
13/13c (University Boulevard)
33 (University Boulevard)
34 (Portland Hill in the Campus)
35/35A (Derby Road)
36 (Derby Road)
The 52 does not go from the City Centre but does pass through Clifton, QMC,
University and then Beeston.
By Taxi:
There are taxi ranks throughout the City Centre and immediately
adjacent to the main railway and bus stations. The journey to the campus
takes about 15 minutes.
From Beeston (approximately 1.5 miles)
The Rainbow 5 and 5a Trent and Barton services run from Beeston Bus Station
(about 10 minutes walk from the railway station along Station Road) past
the South and North entrances to the University, as well as passing QMC.
Nottingham City Transport service 13 has a stop in Queen's Road, about
5 minutes walk from the Beeston railway station, turning right out of
Station Road.
Maps
Map
of the University Park campus
Map of School of Geography,Building
layout Clive Granger Building Floor - A
Meet the team |
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Georgina Endfield
Reader, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK.
Principal investigator Mexican Climate Change Network
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Sarah Davies
Lecturer, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, UK
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David Stahle
Distinguished Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville USA
Principal investigator Mexican Climate Change Network
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Sarah Metcalfe
Professor of Earth and Environmental Dynamics, School of Geography, University
of Nottingham, UK
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Victor Magaña Rueda
Professor of Atmospheric Science and head of department of General Meterology.
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico, Mexico City Mexico
Principal investigator Mexican Climate Change Network
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Sarah O'Hara
Professor of Geography, School of Geography, University of Nottingham,
UK
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Annabel Gear
Mexican Climate Change Network Facilitator, based in the School of Geography,
University of Nottingham, UK
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José Villanueva
Diaz
Professor, INIFAP Cenid-Raspa, Durango, Mexico
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Mark Brenner
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of
Florida, USA
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Rodolfo Acuña Soto
Professor of Historical Epidemiology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Mexico City, Mexico |
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Angela Lamb
Isotope Geochemist
NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth,
Nottingham, UK
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Other network members |
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Juan Mathias Mendez
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico, Mexico City Mexico
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Marco Antonio Salas Flores
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia |
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Dr Ernesto Caetano
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico, Mexico City Mexico |
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Dr Matthew Therrell
University of Virginia Center for Regional Environmental Studies |
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Dr. María Adela Monreal Gómez
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
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Dr. David Salas de León
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Dr. Ma. Luisa Machain Castillo
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
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Professor Tereza Cavazos from the Departamento de Oceanografía
Física, CICESE, Ensenada, B.C. México. |
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Dr. Lorenzo Vázquez-Selem, Instituto de Geografía,
Universidad Nacional utónoma de México, Mexico City |
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Dr. Virginia García Acosta, Directora General del CIESAS,
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social, Mexico City |
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Nicholas Beer, Archaeologist/ Palaeoecologist,
Research Centre in Evolutionary
Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University |
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Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is an assistant
professor of international relations at Boston University, a Senior Researcher
at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University,
and an adjunct fellow at Research and Information Systems for Developing
Countries in Delhi, India. He is a specialist on trade, environment, and
development policy. His recent books are The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment
and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley; Putting Development
First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs; and Free Trade
and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. He is currently working
on the Handbook of Trade and Environment. |
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Socorro Lozano García
Departamento de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F. CP. 04510,
MEXICO. tel. (52) 55 5622 4305 ext. 176. fax: (52) 55 5008 8432. e-mail:
mslozano@servidor.unam.mx
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Cary Mock is an Associate
Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He has research
interests in historical climate reconstruction and impacts, Quaternary paleoclimate
reconstruction and data/model comparisons, and synoptic climatology. Email
mockcj@sc.edu, tel (803) 777-1211 (office), fax (803) 777-4972, Department of Geography, Undergraduate Program Director, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208, U.S.A.
http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/facStaff/mock.html |
WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS
The network is pleased to be able to welcome two new members:
Dr Christopher Scott Assistant Professor, Geography & Regional Development and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona (cascott@email.arizona.edu). Chris's research interests are in water resources, aquifer management, US-Mexico transboundary waters, wastewater and effluent.
The network would also like to welcome Dr. Stephanie Buechler, a sociologist working on climate and water in Mexico.
Contact Us
You can contact on the following email address Georgina Endfield, or by phone on 0115 9515731
Postal address:
School of Geography,
The University of Nottingham,
University Park,
Nottingham,
NG7 2RD
UK
Tel. + 44 (0) 115 9515731 (Georgina Endfield)
Fax + 44 (0) 115 9515249
Other links
JISCMAIL: If you would like to contact everyone in the network please click
here.
Click on join or leave jiscmail, then enter your email
address and name. Finally, click on join "Mexico-climate change group."