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Alexander Correa-Metrio
PhD student
Email: acorrea@fit.edu
Research Project
Paleoenvironmental history of the Yucatán Peninsula
Research interests
Baysian statistics, transfer functions, bioclimatic models
My work at the Paleoecology Lab started in September of 2003. Since then I have been involved in several projects including the pollen
database, for which I described more than 600 species, pollen analysis of modern and fossil samples from Amazonian lowlands and the
piedmont, and more recently samples from the Maya lowlands in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Currently I am working on Paleoecology and
Biogeography of the Yucatan Peninsula, which constitutes my PhD dissertation. I have also a great interest in climatic processes of
South America, especially regarding the effect of ENSO in Amazonia.
Publications
Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, D. Ariztegui, D. Anselmetti, A. Gilli, C. Burton and A.D. Muller. in press. The Last Glacial Maximum: Central America. Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and sourounding regions. F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri. Springer, Paris. Get a copy
Urrego, D.H., M.B. Bush, M.R. Silman, A. Correa-Metrio, M.-P. Ledru, F.E. Mayle and B.G. Valencia. in press. Millennial-scale ecological changes in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum. Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and surrounding regions. F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri, Springer, Paris. Get a copy
Hodell, D.A., D. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.J. Guilderson, A.D. Muller, M.B. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar and S. Kutterolf. 2008. An 85-ka record of climate change in lowland Central America. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1152-1165. Get a copy