Position Type
Faculty
Service
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Specialization
Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
Pronouns
She / Her / Hers
Degree(s)
Ph. D., The University of Texas at Austin

Learning & Teaching

Courses
  • EESC 111 Planet Earth
  • EESC 200 Environmental Geology
  • EESC 314 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Research

My work contributes to basic and applied science related to a) the management of natural resources such as water and sediment on vulnerable coastal and fluvial landscapes, and b) reconstructions of past environments on Earth or other planets.

Works

Publications

(*undergraduate student author, **graduate student author, ***post-doctoral scholar author)

  • **Brisson, Sarah, **Jaleigh Q. Pier, **Andrew J. Beard, Anjali M. Fernandes, Andrew M. Bush, 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Niche conservatism and ecological change during a Late Devonian mass extinction event. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2524
  • **Madeline Kollegger, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Anjali M. Fernandes, Arvind Singh, Antoinette Abeyta, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters, Upstream Propagation of Sea-level Signal: Time Lags and the Dynamics of the Fluvial Surface https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL097956
  • Anjali M. Fernandes, Antoinette Abeyta, Robert Mahon, Rowan Martindale, Kristin D. Bergmann, Christopher Jackson, Theodore M. Present, Darryl Reano, Travis Swanson, Kristina Butler, Sarah Brisson, Cari Johnson, David Mohrig, Michael Blum, 2020, The Sedimentary Record, “Enriching Lives within Sedimentary Geology”: Actionable Recommendations for Making SEPM a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive society for All Sedimentary Geologists. DOI: 10.2110/sedred.2020.3.4
  • Anjali M. Fernandes, David Mohrig, James Buttles, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2020, Flow-Substrate Interactions in Degrading and Aggrading Submarine Channels. DOI:10.2110/jsr.2020.31
  • John Martin, Anjali M. Fernandes, Jennifer Pickering, Nick Howes, 2018, Journal of Sedimentary Research, The Signature of Backwater Hydrodynamics in the Stratigraphic Record of a Triassic Continental-Scale River System, Northwest Shelf of Australia. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2018.38
  • Jaap Neinhuis, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, **Krista L. Jankowski, Anjali M. Fernandes, **Molly Keogh, M., 2017, GSA Today Groundwork, A New Subsidence Map for Coastal Louisiana. DOI:10.1130/GSATG337GW.1
  • **Krista L. Jankowski, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Anjali M. Fernandes, 2017, Nature Communications, Assessing the resilience of Louisiana’s Coastal Wetlands to Present-day Rates of Sea-Level Rise. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14792 (2017)
  • Anjali M. Fernandes, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Kyle M. Straub, David Mohrig, 2016, Geology, Connecting the Backwater Hydraulics of Coastal Rivers to Fluvio-deltaic Sedimentology and Stratigraphy. DOI: 10.1130/G37965.1
  • Celine Scheidt., Anjali M. Fernandes, Chris Paola, Jef Caers, 2016, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, Quantifying Natural Delta Variability using a Multi-point Geostatistics Prior Uncertainty Model. DOI: 10.1002/2016JF003922
  • **Andrew J. Beard, Andrew Bush, Anjali M. Fernandes, Patrick Getty, Michael T. Hren, 2016, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis of the Frasnian-Famennian (Upper Devonian) boundary interval in Tioga, north-central Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.001
  • Celine Scheidt, Anjali M. Fernandes, Chris Paola, Jef Caers, 2015, Petroleum Geostatistics, Can Geostatistical Models Represent Nature’s Variability? An Analysis Using Flume Experiments

SUBMITTED/ IN REVIEW

  • **Mohamed M. Fathi, Virginia Smith, Ayman G. Awadallah, Anjali M. Fernandes, Michael T. Hren, Dennis O. Terry, Jr. Constructing Long-Term Hydrographs for Climate-Resilient River Management: A Novel Approach for Studying Centennial to Millennial River Behavior, Water Resources Research

WHITE PAPERS AND PRE-PRINTS

Presentations

(*undergraduate student author, **graduate student author, ***post-doctoral researcher)

  • Anjali M. Fernandes, Virginia B. Smith, Michael T. Hren, Dennis O. Terry Jr., **Mohamed Fathi, **Baylee McGinnis, ***Queenie Chang, *Mia M. Rhodes, *David B. Luffman, *Madelyn A Kurtz. River Response to Environmental Change: Leveraging Earth’s Self-recorded Sedimentary and Biogeochemical Archives to Calibrate Hydrologic and Geomorphic Models, The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • ***Queenie Chang, Anjali M. Fernandes, *David B. Luffman, *Mia Rhodes, *Madelyn A. Kurtz, *Michael T. Hren, *Virginia B. Smith, *Dennis O. Terry Jr., The Evolution of River Landscapes during the Eocene Oligocene Transition in Central North America, The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • David B. Luffman, Anjali M. Fernandes, Queenie Chang, Mia M. Rhodes, Baylee McGinnis, Michael T. Hren, Virginia B. Smith, Dennis O. Terry Jr., Madelyn A. Kurtz. Contextualizing Early Oligocene Fluvial Strata with Hydraulic and Catchment Properties of Contemporary Great Plains Stream, Meeting of The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • *Mia M. Rhodes, Anjali M. Fernandes, ***Queenie Chang, *David B. Luffman, *Madelyn A. Kurtz, Virginia B. Smith, Michael T. Hren, Dennis O. Terry Jr., Reconstructing Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport through Ephemeral Streams during the Oligocene Intensification of the North American Monsoon, Meeting of The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • *Madelyn A. Kurtz, Anjali M. Fernandes, Assessing Impacts of Surface Hydrology and Water Chemistry on the Spatiotemporal Variability in Measurements of Wetland Elevation Change in Coastal Louisiana, The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • **Mohamed M. Fathi, Virginia Smith, Anjali M. Fernandes, Michael T.Hren, Dennis O. Terry Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Long-Term Fluvial Geomorphic Modeling, The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • **Mohamed M. Fathi, Md Abdullah Al Mehedi, Virginia Smith, Anjali M. Fernandes, Michael T.Hren, Dennis O. Terry, Jr. Evaluating Multi-scale Inputs LSTM vs Conceptual Models for Hourly Rainfall-Runoff Simulations, The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
  • Anjali M. Fernandes, Virginia B. Smith, Michael T. Hren, Dennis O. Terry Jr., **Mohamed Fathi, **Baylee McGinnis, ***Queenie Chang, *Mia M. Rhodes, *David B. Luffman, *Madelyn A Kurtz. River Response to Environmental Change: Leveraging Earth’s Self-recorded Sedimentary and Biogeochemical Archives to Calibrate Hydrologic and Geomorphic Models, Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh
  • ***Queenie Chang, Anjali M. Fernandes, *David B. Luffman, *Mia Rhodes, *Madelyn A. Kurtz, Michael T. Hren, Virginia B. Smith, Dennis O. Terry Jr. Fluvial Landscape Evolution during the Eocene Oligocene Transition in Central North America, Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh
  • *David B. Luffman, Anjali M. Fernandes, ***Queenie Chang, *Mia M. Rhodes, **Baylee McGinnis, Michael T. Hren, Virginia B. Smith, Dennis O. Terry Jr., *Madelyn A. Kurtz. Contextualizing Early Oligocene Fluvial Strata with Hydraulic and Catchment Properties of Contemporary Great Plains Streams, Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh
  • *Mia M. Rhodes, Anjali M. Fernandes, ***Queenie Chang, *David B. Luffman, *Madelyn A. Kurtz, Virginia B. Smith, Michael T. Hren, Dennis O. Terry Jr. Paleohydraulic Reconstructions of Ephemeral Streams at the Onset of the Oligocene in North America, Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh
  • *Madelyn A. Kurtz, Anjali M. Fernandes, Assessing Impacts of Surface Hydrology on the Spatiotemporal Variability in Wetland Elevation Dynamics in Coastal Louisiana, , Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh
  • David B. Luffman, Anjali M. Fernandes, Queenie Chang, Mia M. Rhodes, Baylee McGinnis, Michael T. Hren, Virginia B. Smith, Dennis O. Terry Jr., Madelyn A. Kurtz. Contextualizing Early Oligocene Fluvial Strata with Hydraulic and Catchment Properties of Contemporary Great Plains Streams, Denison University Summer Research Symposium
  • *Madelyn A. Kurtz, Anjali M. Fernandes, Assessing Impacts of Surface Hydrology and Water Chemistry on the Spatiotemporal Variability in Measurements of Wetland Elevation Change in Coastal Louisiana, Denison University Summer Research Symposium

Other

Grants & Funding

1. Collaborative Research: RAPID: Characterizing the Sedimentary Archive of the Longest Mississippi River Flood on Record, while Implementing a New Model for Inclusive Undergraduate Geoscience Research

$300,857.00 to PI Fernandes at Denison University (Initial Award: $199,947; Supplemental Award: $100,910; Sub-awards to University of New Mexico-Gallup, Georgia Southern University, University of New Orleans)

National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. Program: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Grant #2005439

2. Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Constraining Paleo-geomorphic Responses to the Eocene-Oligocene Hothouse to Icehouse Transition.

Co-PI with Drs. Virginia Smith, Michael Hren and Dennis Terry

$255,106 to PI Fernandes (transferred to Denison University in 2019)

National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. Program: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Grant #1844176

3. Collaborative Research: From Surface Dynamics to Strata: Quantifying the Signals of Surface Processes in Time and Space.

Co-PI with Drs. Arvind Singh, Jorge Lorenzo Trueba and Antoinette Abeyta

$133,000 to PI Fernandes at Denison University

National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. Program: Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics Grant #1854490

4. Projecting 50 years of relative sea-level rise in coastal Louisiana

Role: Co-PI

Funding period: August 2021 – August 2023

Funding Agency: The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence in Louisiana (LA-COE)

Honors & Awards
  • Student Organization Advisor of the Year (The C. L. Herrick Student Society in Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Student Collaborations

Constraining the Response of North American River Landscapes to Climate Change during the Eocene-Oligocene Transition

  • David B. Luffman (Spring 2022 - Present)
  • Mia M. Rhodes (Summer 2022 - Spring 2023)
  • Sarah E. Heithaus (Summer 2022)
  • Anna R. Grendys, Nay B. Woodley, Thea L. Pederson, Linda S. Contreras, George M. Fox (Spring 2023)

Sources of spatial and temporal variability in elevation change on drowning coastal wetlands, Louisiana

  • Madelyn A. Kurtz (Spring 2022 - present)

Characterizing the Sedimentary Archive of the 2019 Mississippi River Flood

  • Tricia R. Klosterman (Summer 2022)
  • Laura N. Lapham(Summer 2020, Spring 2021 - Spring 2022)
  • Andrea Scroggs(Spring 2021 - Spring 2022)
  • Jack Silverman (Spring 2021 - Spring 2022)
  • Davd B. Luffman (Spring 2021 - Spring 2022)
  • Ariel Russell (Summer 2020)

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