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
Recent Publications
Anders, A. M., & Rhoads, B. L. (2025). Impacts of geographic variability and geologic history on the distribution of post-settlement alluvium (PSA) across the upper Midwest, USA. Catena, 254, Article 108939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108939
Meghani, N. A., & Anders, A. M. (2025). Timescales of Drainage Network Evolution Revealed: Spatiotemporal Variability in Drainage Density in the Post-Glacial Central Lowlands, USA. American Journal of Science, 325, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.2475/001c.129219
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