INSTAAR: Suzanne Anderson

Research Scientist of INSTAAR; Assistant 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, SP, (2007): Biogeochemistry of glacial landscape systems, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35: 375-99.
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, RS, Anderson, SP, MacGregor, KR, Waddington, ED, O'Neel, S, Riihimaki, CA, and Loso, MG (2004): Strong feedbacks between hydrology and sliding of a small alpine glacier, J. Geophys. Res., 109, F03005, doi:10.1029/2004JF000120.
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.
Anderson, SP, Dietrich, WE, and Brimhall, GH, Jr. (2002): Weathering profiles, mass balance analysis, and rates of solute loss: Linkages between weathering and erosion in a small, steep catchment, Geological Society of America Bulletin 114(9): 1143-1158.
Anderson, SP, and Dietrich, WE (2001): Chemical weathering and runoff chemistry in a steep, headwater catchment. Hydrological Processes 15: 1791-1815.
Anderson, SP, Drever, JI, Frost, CD, and Holden, P (2000): Chemical weathering in the foreland of a retreating glacier. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64 (7): 1173-1189.
Anderson, SP, Dietrich, WE, Montgomery, DR, Torres, R, Conrad, ME, and Loague, K (1997): Subsurface flow paths in a steep, unchanneled catchment. Water Resources Research 33 (12): 2637-2653.

See Also:

Suzanne Prestrud Anderson