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, Geology
Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Recent Publications
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), [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), [e2021TC006957]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006957
Cullen, C., Anders, A. M., Lai, J., & Druhan, J. L. (2022). Numerical modeling of groundwater-driven stream network evolution in low-relief post-glacial landscapes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47(2), 658-671. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5278
Lai, J., & Anders, A. M. (2021). Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion. Earth Surface Dynamics, 9(4), 845-859. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-845-2021
Lai, J., & Anders, A. M. (2020). Tectonic controls on rates and spatial patterns of glacial erosion through geothermal heat flux. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 543, [116348]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116348