Álvaro Montenegro

Álvaro Montenegro works at the intersection of climate science and archaeology, using ocean and climate models to study how ancient peoples migrated across oceans and how past climate systems (like monsoons and ice sheet melting) behaved. Much of the recent work simulates prehistoric sea voyages—such as early human dispersal into the Pacific, Indonesia, and the Americas—by combining paleoclimate data with boat performance and drift modeling. Other projects examine polar climate processes, like surface melting on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf.

Publication output has been relatively steady over the last decade, fluctuating between 2 and 5 papers per year without a clear upward or downward trend.

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