Alexander Getraer

I study geomorphology and how landscapes respond to and record climate change. As an undergraduate, I investigated climate signatures encoded in the geometry of branching rivers. My PhD research, co-advised by Marisa Palucis and Justin Strauss, focuses on quantifying sediment transport and delivery in rapidly warming Arctic watersheds. I am interested in how feedbacks between climate, ecology, and surface processes control periglacial landscape stability, and in how the influence of past conditions and processes persist in the morphology and hydrology of post-glacial landscapes.