Professor Carey specializes in environmental history and the history of science, with a focus on the modern history of climate change, natural disasters, glaciers, mountaineering, and water. His extensive research in the Andes helped produce his 2010 book, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society. Additonally, in 2013 he co-founded and now co-directs the Transdisciplinary Andean Research Network (TARN). He continues to conduct fieldwork in Peru, where his research focuses on climate change's impacts on society. Chris Ableidinger