Contact Information
Research Interests
I study interactions between climate, erosion and tectonics with a focus on orographic precipitation and anthropogenic influences on landscape evolution. Active areas of research include: 1) measurement and modeling of climatological precipitation patterns at scales from 1km – 100km, 2) characterization of erosion rates in areas of spatially variable precipitation, 3) analysis of sediment sources and fluxes in agricultural landscapes, and, 3) numerical landscape evolution modeling. Field areas include the Olympic Mountains of Washington State, the Western Ghats of India, the Swiss Alps, and the Midwestern United States.
Education
- Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Courses Taught
- GEOL 107: Physical Geology
- GEOL 401: Geomorphology
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Recent Publications
Rhoads, B. L., Anders, A. M., Banerjee, P., Grimley, D. A., Stumpf, A., & Blair, N. E. (2024). Sensitivity of a meandering lowland river to intensive landscape management: Lateral migration rates before and after watershed-scale agricultural development. Anthropocene, 45, Article 100429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2024.100429
Kumar, P., Anders, A., Bauer, E., Blair, N. E., Cain, M., Dere, A., Druhan, J., Filley, T., Giannopoulos, C., Goodwell, A. E., Grimley, D., Karwan, D., Keefer, L. L., Kim, J., Marini, L., Muste, M., Papanicolaou, A. N. T., Rhoads, B. L., Rodriguez, L. C. H., ... Zhou, S. (2023). Emergent role of critical interfaces in the dynamics of intensively managed landscapes. Earth-Science Reviews, 244, Article 104543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104543
Margason, A. A., Anders, A. M., Conrick, R. J. C., & Roe, G. H. (2023). Spatially coherent variability in modern orographic precipitation produces asymmetric paleo-glacier extents in flowline models: Olympic Mountains, USA. Earth Surface Dynamics, 11(5), 849-863. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-849-2023
An, C., Fang, H., Zhang, L., Su, X., Fu, X., Huang, H. Q., Parker, G., Hassan, M. A., Meghani, N. A., Anders, A. M., & Wang, G. (2022). Poyang and Dongting Lakes, Yangtze River: Tributary lakes blocked by main-stem aggradation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(30), Article e2101384119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101384119
Anders, A. M., Lai, J., & Marshak, S. (2022). Development of Foreland Intracratonic Plateaus (Ozark Plateau and Appalachian Plateaus): A Consequence of Topographic Inversion Due To Erosion of Adjacent Fold-Thrust Belts. Tectonics, 41(4), Article e2021TC006957. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006957