INSTAAR: Suzanne Anderson

Fellow of INSTAAR; Associate Professor of Geography.

PhD: 1995, University of California, Berkeley.

Suzanne.Anderson@colorado.edu
(303) 492-7071, 492-4794

Specialty: Geomorphology, weathering, hydrology, glaciology.

Research Interests: Field-based mechanistic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that shape the Earth's surface and control chemical denudation rates. Current focuses including studying the effect of glaciers on chemical weathering rates and the global carbon cycle, the linkage between glacier dynamics and subglacial hydrology, glacier outburst floods (jökulhlaups), and catchment-scale hydrology and hydrochemistry. Specializes in collection of detailed field observations to constrain models of geomorphic systems.

Outstanding Awards: NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global Change Research (1991-94), Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (1994), NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship in Earth Sciences (1995-97).

Selected Publications:

Anderson, S.P., Anderson, R.S., Hinckley, E.S., Kelly, P., and Blum, A.E. (2011): Exploring weathering and regolith transport controls on critical zone development with models and natural experiments. Applied Geochemistry.
Riggins, S.G., Anderson, R.S., Anderson, S.P., and Tye, A.M. (2011): Solving a conundrum of a steady-state hillslope with variable soil depths and production rates, Bodmin Moor, UK. Geomorphology, 128: 73-84.
Anderson, RS, and Anderson, SP (2010): Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes. Cambridge University Press, 340 pp.
Anderson, SP, (2007): Biogeochemistry of glacial landscape systems, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35: 375-99.
Bartholomaus, T. C., Anderson, R. S., and Anderson, S. P. (2007): Response of glacial basal motion to transient water storage. Nature Geoscience, 1(1): 33-37. doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.5298
Molnar, P. H., Anderson, R. S., and Anderson, S. P. (2007): Tectonics, fracturing of rock, and erosion. Journal of Geophysical Research—Earth Surface, 112: F03014. doi:10.1029/2005JF000433
Loso, M.G., Anderson, R.S., Anderson, S.P., and Reimer, P.J. (2006): A 1500-year record of temperature and glacial response inferred from varved Iceberg Lake, southcentral Alaska. Quaternary Research 66(1): 12-24.
Anderson, R.S., Walder, J.S., Anderson, S.P., Trabant, D.C, and Fountain, A.G. (2005): The dynamic response of Kennicott Glacier to the Hidden Creek Lake outburst flood, Annals of Glaciology 40: 237-242.
Skidmore, M.L., Anderson, S.P., Sharp, M., Foght, J.M. and Lanoil, B.D., (2005): Subglacial microbial communities and their relationship to water chemistry, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 71(11): 6986-6997.
Anderson, SP (2005): Glaciers show direct linkage between erosion rates and chemical weathering fluxes, Geomorphology 67 (1-2): 147-157.
Anderson, SP, Longacre, SA, and Kraal, ER (2003): Patterns of water chemistry and discharge in the glacier-fed Kennicott River, Alaska: Evidence for subglacial water storage cycles, Chemical Geology, 202 (3-4): 297-312.
Anderson, SP, Walder, JS, Anderson, RS, Kraal, ER, Cunico, M., Fountain, AG, and Trabant, DC. (2003): Integrated hydrologic and hydrochemical observations of Hidden Creek Lake jökulhlaups, Kennicott Glacier, Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(F1), 6003, doi:10.1029/2002JF000004.

See Also:

Suzanne Prestrud Anderson