Adolfo Ivan Batun-Alpuche is a native Maya from Cozumel, México. He is an archaeology professor at Universidad de Oriente in Valladolid, Yucatan, and Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current research is with a team of archaeologists exploring the livelihood of the Maya living before and after the Spanish invasion. Large archaeological sites such as Chichen Itza, Coba, Ekbalam, and Culuba are areas where Batún has been exploring the relationship between contemporary Maya communities and their biocultural resources, archaeological sites, cenotes, animals, plants and changing patterns due to modern climate change.