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, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Associate Professor, European Union Center
Recent Publications
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
Anders, A., Bettis E. Arthur, III., Grimley, D. A., Stumpf, A. J., & Kumar, P. (2018). Critical zone structure in the glaciated interior lowlands, USA; a conceptual model from the intensively managed landscape critical zone observatory. Paper presented at GSA North-Central 2018 Annual Meeting, Ames, Iowa, United States. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018NC-311598
