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Scopus Author ID: 57194503322

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geomorphology

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United States

Biography

Hi Everyone! I'm an early career geoscience researcher and educator.

I study how sediment and water moves through steep mountain ranges, and I teach geology concepts and environmental stewardship to the next generation of learners.

My projects range from (1) addressing the production and transport of sediment through debris-flow prone watersheds of southern California, (2) analyzing how wildfires affect sediment transport and debris flow hazards in steep watersheds, and (3) long-term evolution of landscape morphology and erosion -- with respect to deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste.

My approaches vary from using geochemical techniques to measure long-term erosion rates over geologic timescales (cosmogenic radionuclides, low-temperature thermochronology, landscape evolution modeling) to short term monitoring to address landscape change over human timescales (differencing lidar topography, high resolution surveying with structure-from-motion photogrammetry).

I've recently started a position at the Arizona Geological Survey, where our organization focuses on all of these challenges.

Happy to discuss more if anyone reads these things! I also have a silly website where I try to describe what I do with pictures, animations, and videos.

https://abngeology.wordpress.com/

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Employment (5)

University of Arizona: Tucson, US

2025-01-06 to present | Researcher III (Arizona Geological Survey)
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Alexander Neely

University of Tübingen: Tübingen, Baden Württemberg, DE

2022-06-01 to 2024-06-01 | postdoctoral researcher (Geosciences)
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Alexander Neely

University of California Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA, US

2021-01 to 2022-01 | postdoctoral researcher (Earth Planetary Space Sciences)
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Alexander Neely

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2015-08-21 to 2020 | Graduate student (Geosciences)
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Alexander Neely

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2013 to 2015 (earth sciences)
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Alexander Neely

Education and qualifications (3)

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2015-08-18 to present | Dr. of Geosciences (Candidate) (Department of Geosciences)
Education
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Alexander Neely

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2013-09-26 to 2015-07-11 | Masters of Geosciences (Department of Earth Sciences)
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Alexander Neely

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2009-08-21 to 2013-05-05 | BS (Department of Geosciences)
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Alexander Neely

Professional activities (3)

American Association for the Advancement of Science: DC, DC, US

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Alexander Neely

Geological Society of America: CO, CO, US

2017 to present | professional (Quaternary geology & geomorphology division)
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Alexander Neely

American Geophysical Union: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2013 to present (Earth Planetary Surface Processes)
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Works (19)

'Witness mountains' on scarplands are expected outcomes of drainage capture dynamics

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14132
Contributors: Daniel Peifer; Alexander R. Beer; Christoph Glotzbach; Alexander B. Neely; Thomas Bernard; Mirjam Schaller
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Erosion rate estimation across a large-scale domain from surface analyses, thermochronology and cosmogenic nuclide concentrations: A case study from Germany.

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20146
Contributors: Thomas Bernard; Christoph Glotzbach; Alexander Neely; Daniel Peifer; Alexander Beer; Mirjam Schaller; Yanqing Shi; Todd A. Ehlers
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Spatiotemporal denudation rates of the Swabian Alb escarpment (Southwest Germany) dominated by base-level lowering and lithology

2024-09-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-2729
Contributors: Mirjam Schaller; Daniel Peifer; Alexander B. Neely; Thomas Bernard; Christoph Glotzbach; Alexander R. Beer; Todd A. Ehlers
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Supplementary material to "Spatiotemporal denudation rates of the Swabian Alb escarpment (Southwest Germany) dominated by base-level lowering and lithology"

2024-09-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-2729-supplement
Contributors: Mirjam Schaller; Daniel Peifer; Alexander B. Neely; Thomas Bernard; Christoph Glotzbach; Alexander R. Beer; Todd A. Ehlers
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The grain size of sediments delivered to steep debris‐flow prone channels prior to and following wildfire

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2024-06-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5819
Contributors: Alexander B. Neely; Seulgi Moon; Roman A. DiBiase; Leonard S. Sklar; Marina O. Argueta
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Hillslope Morphology Drives Variability of Detrital 10Be Erosion Rates in Steep Landscapes

Geophysical Research Letters
2023-08-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2023GL104392
Contributors: Roman A. DiBiase; Alexander B. Neely; Kelin X. Whipple; Arjun M. Heimsath; Nathan A. Niemi
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Sediment controls on the transition from debris flow to fluvial channels in steep mountain ranges

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2023-06-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5553
Contributors: Alexander B. Neely; Roman A. DiBiase
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Estimation of erosion rate parameters from neural network inverse modeling of river profile and thermo-geochronology data

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4903
Contributors: Thomas Bernard; Christoph Glotzbach; Daniel Peifer; Al Neely; Todd Ehlers
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Sediment controls on the transition from debris flow to fluvial channels in steep mountain ranges

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-3633
Contributors: Alexander Neely; Roman DiBiase
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McKittrick Canyon Reef Trail strat section, Guadalupe Mtns Nat. Park, TX

opentopography.org
2021 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5069/G99C6VM6
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Alexander Neely

Steep Headwater-Colluvial Channels, Day Creek, San Gabriel Mountains CA, US

opentopography.org
2021 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5069/G9F47MBX
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Alexander Neely

Bedrock cliffs in the San Gabriel and San Jacinto Mountains, California

opentopography.org
2020 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5069/G96H4FKG
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Alexander Neely

Drainage Area, Bedrock Fracture Spacing, and Weathering Controls on Landscape‐Scale Patterns in Surface Sediment Grain Size

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
2020-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2020jf005560
Part of ISSN: 2169-9003
Part of ISSN: 2169-9011
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Alexander Neely
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Drainage area, bedrock fracture spacing, and weathering controls on landscape-scale patterns in surface sediment grain size

2020-06-11 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10502617.2
Contributors: Alexander Banks Neely; Roman Alexander DiBiase
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Drainage area, bedrock fracture spacing, and weathering controls on landscape-scale patterns in surface sediment grain size

2020-03-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10502617.1
Contributors: Alexander Banks Neely; Roman Alexander DiBiase
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Bedrock fracture density controls on hillslope erodibility in steep, rocky landscapes with patchy soil cover, southern California, USA

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.011
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2-s2.0-85068806563
Contributors: Neely, A.B.; DiBiase, R.A.; Corbett, L.B.; Bierman, P.R.; Caffee, M.W.
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Alexander Neely via Scopus - Elsevier
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Quantifying rock strength controls in Guadalupe Mountains, NM/TX

opentopography.org
2019 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5069/G9BK19G8
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Alexander Neely

Fracture density and grain size controls on the relief structure of bedrock landscapes

Geology
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1130/G40006.1
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2-s2.0-85045905818
Contributors: DiBiase, R.A.; Rossi, M.W.; Neely, A.B.
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Alexander Neely via Scopus - Elsevier

An automated knickzone selection algorithm (KZ-Picker) to analyze transient landscapes: Calibration and validation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2017JF004250
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2-s2.0-85020469802
Contributors: Neely, A.B.; Bookhagen, B.; Burbank, D.W.
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Alexander Neely via Scopus - Elsevier

Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Geomorphology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of geophysical research. (1)
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