Research
Ancient Engineered Landscapes
I study reservoirs, canals, dams, terraces, plazas, civic architecture, causeways, settlement systems, and modified terrain as evidence for ancient landscape design. Current and future projects include Laguna Seca, Booth’s River canal coring and dating, GPR and volumetric fill modeling, and lidar-guided settlement analysis.
Environmental Legacies
This work reconstructs long-term environmental change through lake cores, wetland soils, sediment records, vegetation change, fire severity, and landscape degradation. Projects include Laguna Verde, Wamil, Río Azul, and post-fire vegetation regrowth research in southern Belize.
Digital Geospatial Heritage
I develop workflows for accessible and advanced digital documentation, including UAV lidar, airborne lidar, terrestrial laser scanning, mobile lidar, photogrammetry, 3D printing, virtual reality, and digital twins for research, conservation, teaching, and public engagement.
Landscape Legacies
Future work will integrate drone lidar, TLS, hyperspectral and multispectral data, botanical surveys, soils, and ecological records to examine how past human activity shapes modern tropical landscapes.