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Anja Scheffers is a researcher affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The focus of their work primarily resides within subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research encompasses a range of topics including geological formations and processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, coastal and marine dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, coastal and marine management, and environmental and social impact assessments.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Scheffers include:

  • Megaboulder Movement by Superstorms: A Geomorphological Approach (2020), Journal of Coastal Research
  • Learning from experience: what the emerging global marine assessment community can learn from the social processes of other global environmental assessments (2021), Anthropocene Coasts
  • Owning humankind: fossils, humans and archaeological remains (2020), Heliyon
  • Progress in Tsunami Science: Toward an Improved Integration of Hydrodynamical Modeling and Geomorphic Field Evidence (2022), Geosciences

Anja Scheffers has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, among them:

  • Dieter Kelletat
  • Wibke Erdmann
  • Max Engel
  • Simon Matthias May
  • Helmut Brückner

Their work has been published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Coastal Research
  • Anthropocene Coasts
  • Heliyon
  • Geosciences

Best Publications

  • Sedimentologic and geomorphologic tsunami imprints worldwide—a review

    Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat

  • Beach ridge systems – archives for Holocene coastal events?:

    Anja Scheffers;Max Engel;Sander Scheffers;Peter Squire

  • Late Holocene tsunami traces on the western and southern coastlines of the Peloponnesus (Greece)

    Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat;Andreas Vött;Simon Matthias May

  • Tsunami imprints on the Leeward Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire) and their relation to other coastal problems

    Anja Scheffers

  • Tsunami deposits on the coastline of west Crete (Greece)

    Anja Scheffers;Sanders Scheffers

  • Tsunami relics in the coastal landscape west of Lisbon, Portugal

    Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat

  • Documentation of the Impact of Hurricane Ivan on the Coastline of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)

    Anja Scheffers;Sander Scheffers

  • Boulder Transport by Waves: Progress in Physical Modelling

    Reinhold Benner;Tony Browne;Helmut Brückner;Dieter Kelletat

  • Field Signatures of the SE-Asian Mega-Tsunami along the West Coast of Thailand Compared to Holocene Paleo-Tsunami from the Atlantic Region

    Dieter Kelletat;Sander R. Scheffers;Anja Scheffers

  • Paleo-Tsunami Relics on the Southern and Central Antillean Island Arc

    Anja Scheffers;Sander Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat

  • Wave‐Emplaced Coarse Debris and Megaclasts in Ireland and Scotland: Boulder Transport in a High‐Energy Littoral Environment

    Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat;Sander Scheffers

  • Tsunamis, hurricanes, the demise of coral reefs and shifts in prehistoric human populations in the Caribbean

    Sander R. Scheffers;Jay Haviser;Tony Browne;Anja Scheffers

  • Paleotsunamis in the Caribbean: field evidences and datings from Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire

    Anja Scheffers

  • The Holocene paleo-tsunami history of West Australia

    Sander Scheffers;Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat;Edward A Bryant

  • Coastal boulder deposits in Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, western Ireland

    Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat;Simon Haslett;Sander Scheffers

  • Holocene tsunami deposits on the Bahaman Islands of Long Island and Eleuthera

    Dieter Kelletat;Anja Scheffers;Sander Scheffers

  • Electron spin resonance and radiocarbon dating of coral deposited by Holocene tsunami events on Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba (Netherlands Antilles)

    Ulrich Radtke;Gerhard Schellmann;Anja Scheffers;Dieter Kelletat

  • OSL dating of tsunami deposits from Phra Thong Island, Thailand

    Dominik Brill;Nicole Klasen;Helmut Brückner;Kruawun Jankaew

  • Holocene sea levels along the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand

    Anja Scheffers;Anja Scheffers;Dominik Brill;Dieter Kelletat;Helmut Brückner

  • Local inundation distances and regional tsunami recurrence in the Indian Ocean inferred from luminescence dating of sandy deposits in Thailand

    D. Brill;N. Klasen;K. Jankaew;H. Brückner

  • Economic Value of Beaches

    William B. Stronge;Henry F. Diaz;Henry Bokuniewicz;Douglas L. Inman

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Brückner
Helmut Brückner University of Cologne
Frank Schäbitz
Frank Schäbitz University of Cologne
Volker Wennrich
Volker Wennrich University of Cologne
Ulrich Radtke
Ulrich Radtke University of Duisburg-Essen
Sebastian C. A. Ferse
Sebastian C. A. Ferse University of Bremen
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Giuseppe Mastronuzzi
Giuseppe Mastronuzzi University of Bari Aldo Moro
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith British Antarctic Survey
Quan Hua
Quan Hua Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Bernd Kromer
Bernd Kromer Heidelberg University

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