Dr Anja Scheffers DSc(Duisburg-Essen) PhD(Duisburg-Essen) Anja's main area of research is coastal evolution, including sea-level change, and marine physical natural hazards. Her research specialises in using sedimentary signatures to decipher long-term records of environmental change from the natural environment. She undertakes research in examining the long-term history (spanning the past 6000 years) of natural hazards such as tropical cyclone storm inundations tsunamis and coastal erosion, and the implications of this work for coastal management and state and local government policies and Acts relating to coastal development in temperate to tropical regions. Long-term records are a critical component of hazard risk assessment because they display the full variability (frequency and magnitude) of the hazard. Post-event surveys of extreme hazard events are also an important aspect of her research. Beside the emphasis on coastal environments she focuses on environmental change in high mountain areas (landslides) and glacial environments where she has extensive experience within the European Alps, the high Andes of South America and Western Greenland. For further information about any of these publications please contact the author.
Journal articles
Die entwicklung der tsunamiforschung nach der katastrophe vom 26. Dezember 2004 (with Dieter Kelletat and M Engel), Geographische Rundschau (2009)
The Indian Ocean Tsunami or Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami of December 26, 2004, is said to be...
Severe storms drive holocene island evolution and coral reef biodiversity of the Houtman Abrolhos Archipelago, WA (with Sander R. Scheffers and Dieter Kelletat), IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (2009)
The unique setting of Houtman Abrolhos island allows for a precise storm chronology and influence...
Tsunamis, hurricanes, the demise of coral reefs and shifts in prehistoric human populations in the Caribbean (with Sander R. Scheffers, Jay Haviser, and Tony Browne), Quaternary International (2009)
A review of extreme natural events and their impact on coral reefs and prehistoric human...
Wave-emplaced coarse debris and megaclasts in Ireland and Scotland: boulder transport in a high-energy littoral environment (with Sander R. Scheffers, Dieter Kelletat, and Tony Browne), Journal of Geology (2009)
Many coastlines of the world, particularly those at higher latitudes and those located in tropical...
Late Holocene tsunami traces on the western and southern coastlines of the Peloponnesus (Greece) (with Dieter Kelletat, Andreas Vött, Simon Matthias May, and Sander Scheffers), Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2008)
Greece, in particular the western and southern parts close to the subduction zone of the...
Books
Tsunamis, hurricanes and neotectonics as driving mechanisms in coastal evolution (Proceedings of the Bonaire Field Symposium, March 2-6, 2006. A contribution to IGCP 495) (with Dieter Kelletat), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2006)
Using field oberservations and remote sensing data from the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 impact at...
Book chapters
Caribbean coasts, Panama to Belize (with Tony Browne), Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms (2010)
Hipaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) (with Tony Browne), Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms (2010)
Conference publications
Cliff recession and boulder transport along the west coasts of the British Isles (with Dieter Kelletat), Ergebnisse aktueller Küstenforschung - Beiträge der 26. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Geographie der Meere und Küsten", 25.-27. April 2008 in Marburg. 2009 (2008)
Reading the chapter of extreme wave events in nearshore geo-bio-archives of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles): initial results (with M Engel, H Brückner, Dieter Kelletat, F Schäbitz, Andreas Vött, M Wille, and T Willershäuser), Ergebnisse aktueller Küstenforschung - Beiträge der 26. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Geographie der Meere und Küsten", 25.-27. April 2008 in Marburg. 2009 (2008)
Coastal transformation during and after the coseismic uplift 365 AD in western Crete, Greece, Tsunamis, hurricanes and neotectonics as driving mechanisms in coastal evolution (Proceedings of the Bonaire Field Symposium, March 2-6, 2006. A contribution to IGCP 495) (2006)
Recent advances in paleo-tsunami field research in the intra-Americas-Sea (Barbados, St. Martin and Anguilla) (with Dieter Kelletat), Caribbean Tsunami Hazard: Proceedings of the National Science Foundation Caribbean Tsunami Workshop (2006)
Ripple marks in coarse tsunami deposits, Tsunamis, hurricanes and neotectonics as driving mechanisms in coastal evolution (Proceedings of the Bonaire Field Symposium, March 2-6, 2006. A contribution to IGCP 495) (2006)
Ripple marks from waves or currents are usually known as minor and mostly short living...