2026 Gail M. Ashley: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	47	3998	3669	1567	1391	156	8517

Overview

Gail M. Ashley is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Recent publications by Gail M. Ashley include a variety of contributions to multiple scientific venues. These papers are:

The Ecological Integrity of Spring Ecosystems: A Global Review, 2021, Elsevier eBooks
Paleo-Critical Zones, windows into the changing life and landscapes during the Quaternary Period, 2020, Quaternary Research
Oxygen Isotopes in Authigenic Clay Minerals: Toward Building a Reliable Salinity Proxy, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
Widespread freshwater carbonate in the Olduvai Basin, a precursor to a major eruption in the East African Rift System, 2020, The Depositional Record
Earth Sciences Are the Model Sciences of the Anthropocene, 2024, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include J. S. Delaney, Lawrence E. Stevens, Anwar A. Aly, Sarah Arpin, and Iva Apostolova.

The venues in which Gail M. Ashley frequently publishes work are:

Elsevier eBooks
Geophysical Research Letters
Quaternary Research
The Depositional Record
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

Best Publications

Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms; a new look at an old problem

Gail M. Ashley

1431
Citations
Processes, Bar Morphology, and Sedimentary Structures on Braided Outwash Fans, Northeastern Gulf of Alaska

Jon C. Boothroyd;Gail M. Ashley

419
Citations
Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Robert J. Blumenschine;Charles R. Peters;Fidelis T. Masao;Ronald J. Clarke

324
Citations
Rhythmic Sedimentation in Glacial Lake Hitchcock, Massachusetts-Connecticut

Gail M. Ashley

277
Citations
Classification of Large-Scale Subaqueous Bedforms: A New Look at an Old Problem-SEPM Bedforms and Bedding Structures

Gail M. Ashley

259
Citations
Deposition of climbing‐ripple beds: a flume simulation

Gail M. Ashley;John B. Southard;Jon C. Boothroyd

253
Citations
Proglacial Lacustrine Environment

Norman D. Smith;Gail Ashley

252
Citations
Interpretation of Polymodal Sediments

Gail M. Ashley

227
Citations
Ecosystem variability and early human habitats in eastern Africa

Clayton R. Magill;Gail M. Ashley;Katherine H. Freeman

186
Citations
Origins of the Ice-contact Stratified Ridges (Eskers) of Ireland

William P. Warren;Gail M. Ashley

183
Citations
First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Enrique Baquedano;Audax Mabulla

180
Citations
Depositional Sequences in Glaciolacustiline Deltas

Thomas C. Gustavson;Gail M. Ashley;Jon C. Boothroyd

163
Citations
Glacial marine sedimentation : paleoclimatic significance

John B. Anderson;Gail M. Ashley

148
Citations
Glacial Sedimentary Environments

Gail M. Ashley;John Shaw;Norman D. Smith

138
Citations
Water, plants, and early human habitats in eastern Africa

Clayton R. Magill;Gail M. Ashley;Katherine H. Freeman

134
Citations
Paleopedology and Paleohydrology of a Volcaniclastic Paleosol Interval: Implications for Early Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Paleoclimate Record, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Gail M. Ashley;Steven G. Driese

123
Citations
Hominin use of springs and wetlands: Paleoclimate and archaeological records from Olduvai Gorge (~ 1.79–1.74 Ma)

Gail M. Ashley;Joanne C. Tactikos;R. Bernhart Owen

110
Citations
Phytoliths infer locally dense and heterogeneous paleovegetation at FLK North and surrounding localities during upper Bed I time, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Doris Barboni;Gail M. Ashley;Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo;Henry T. Bunn

110
Citations
Sedimentation and recent history of a freshwater wetland in a semi‐arid environment: Loboi Swamp, Kenya, East Africa

G. M. Ashley;J. Maitima Mworia;A. M. Muasya;R. B. Owen

110
Citations
Geochemical Signatures of Paleodepositional and Diagenetic Environments: A STEM/AEM Study of Authigenic Clay Minerals from an Arid Rift Basin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Victoria C. Hover;Gail M. Ashley

110
Citations
Orbital rhythms, monsoons, and playa lake response, Olduvai Basin, equatorial East Africa (ca. 1.85–1.74 Ma)

Gail M. Ashley

104
Citations
Sedimentation in Continental Rifts

Robin W. Renaut;Gail M. Ashley

102
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo University of Alcalá

Audax Mabulla University of Dar es Salaam

Henry T. Bunn University of Wisconsin–Madison

Enrique Baquedano University of Alcalá

Travis Rayne Pickering University of Wisconsin–Madison

Steven G. Driese Baylor University

José Yravedra Complutense University of Madrid

Robin W. Renaut University of Saskatchewan

R. Bernhart Owen Hong Kong Baptist University

Katherine H. Freeman Pennsylvania State University

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