Americanist Geographers. Australia, fieldwork in collaboration with David Helgren, evaluating the impact of livestock introduction to New South Wales (1999, 2003). Cyprus, studying environmental history and geoarchaeology (2004). Other fieldwork includes French coastal reclamation in Nova Scotia (1999), and geoarchaeology of Celtic hillforts in northern Portugal (2010-11). Courses Developed and Students At the University of Wisconsin (1960-66), Butzer regularly offered a course on Pleistocene environments, including what is now called geoarchaeology, in addition to introductory physical geography, and graduate seminars in climatology and coastal geomorphology. At the University of Chicago (1966-84), he taught advanced courses in physical geography, applied geomorphology, and environmental archaeology, as well as graduate seminars in settlement archaeology and geography. At the ETH-Zurich (1981-82), he introduced a new program in human geography, which continued to be implemented after his departure. At the University of Texas (since 1984), he offered graduate courses in geoarchaeology and environmental history; cultural ecology; historical geography; and landscape, society, and meaning. In 2005 he received an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award of the University of Texas. He has had 30 Ph.D.’s (9 of them women) and 16 M.A.’s (7 women), at Wisconsin, Chicago, and Texas. Honors 2009: Melvin G. Marcus Distinguished Career Award - Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Busk Medal of the Royal Geographical Society Fryxell Medal of the Society of American Archaeology 1986: Archaeological Geology Award 1991 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology 2002: Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award 1996: member, National Academy of Sciences Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Selected publications 1964 Environment and Archaeology: An Ecological Approach to Prehistory. 1976 Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology. 1978 Dimensions of Human Geography: Essays on Some Familiar and Neglected Themes. 1982 Archaeology as Human Ecology: Method and Theory for a Contextual Approach. 1988 "Cattle and Sheep from Old to New Spain: Historical Antecedents," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78: 29-56. 1993 "The Classical Tradition of Agronomic Science: Perspectives on Carolingian Agriculture and Agronomy," In: P.L. Butzer and D. Lohrmann (eds.), Science in Western and eastern Civilization in Carolingian Times'', pp. 539–596. References External links Karl W. Butzer, Raymond C. Dickson Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts B. L. Turner II, "Karl W. Butzer", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) 1934 births 2016 deaths McGill University Faculty of Science alumni University of Bonn alumni University