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Mark Brenner

Mark Brenner is an environmental scientist who studies interactions among climate, environment and humans.  Trained as a biologist, he is a Professor in the University of Florida Department of Geological Sciences and serves as Director of UF’s Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI).  He has special interests in tropical and subtropical regions, and often collaborates with colleagues across multiple disciplines (e.g., archaeology, botany, geography).  He has taught or teaches courses in Limnology, Paleolimnology, Florida Lake Management, Geology Seminar, Tropical Field Ecology, and Humans and the Environment of the Yucatan Peninsula, the latter two as UF Overseas Study classes in Mexico.  Some of the Mark’s research topics include, among others: 1) human impacts on Florida lakes, 2) historical ecology of the lowland Maya region, 3) Pleistocene/Holocene paleoclimate of the circum-Caribbean region, 4) environmental history of the Bolivian Altiplano, 5) paleoecology of Yunnan Province, China, 5) the history of El Niño events, 6), and 7) late Holocene environmental change in Madagascar.  Mark has conducted limnological/paleolimnological fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Colombia, Haiti, Dominican Republic, China, Cambodia, Madagascar, and Florida. Mark served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Paleolimnology (Springer) from 2007 to 2022.

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