My main academic interest is the relationship of people with their physical environment through time — as expressed in landscapes.\u00a0 Most of my research has been in the tropical lowlands of Mexico; I work with various types of information and undertake frequent ground exploration, but I much prefer to consider landscapes from the open door of a light plane.<\/p>\r\n
Since 1998 I have been a visiting investigator at the Institute of Ecology in Xalapa, the capital of the state of Veracruz in Mexico, while remaining a professor emeritus in the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\r\n
Together with Mexican colleagues I have recently concentrated on an attractive but also ecologically problematic volcanic mountain region known as The Tuxtlas (pictured above), on the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. Link to publications<\/a><\/p>\r\n