Andrew J. Moodie

Andrew J. Moodie

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M Geography. Surface processes and geomorphology.


A complete CV is available here

Manuscripts in preparation and in review

  1. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Dong, T. Y., Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., & Wu, C. (in revision). Abrupt and Transitional Deltaic Avulsions: Distinct Patterns of Stratigraphy due to Channel Connectivity. Geology.

  2. Lundeen, E., & Moodie, A. J. (in press). Quantifying differences between floodplain waterbody connectivity and river-floodplain connectivity in a coastal meandering river. Water Resources Research.

  3. Harris, M., Carlson, B., Moodie, A. J., Dong, T., Vachula, R. S., Struble, W., & Cordova, B. (in review). Sedimentary charcoal records poorly preserve the stratigraphic signal of grassland fire as informed by the 2024 Windy Deuce Fire, Texas Panhandle. Geomorphology.

  4. Ma, H., Dong, T. Y., Shaw, J., Vulis, L. M., Czapiga, M., Tejedor, A., Moodie, A. J., & Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (in preparation). The Growth Rate of Delta Channel Networks. Nature Geoscience.

  5. Shi, Z., & Moodie, A. J. (in preparation). Influence of Nonuniform Shallow Sediment Compaction on Delta Morphodynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

  6. Timko, L., & Moodie, A. J. (in preparation). Morphology and dynamics of interacting sedimentary fans. Geomorphology.

Manuscripts published

  1. Vanderheiden, A., Hales, B., Moodie, A. J., & Güneralp, İ. (2026). ScrollStats: a Python tool for quantifying scroll bar morphology on meandering rivers. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(122), 9736. doi: 10.21105/joss.09736 [link]

  2. Moodie, A. J., Barefoot, E., Hutton, E., Nguyen, C., Wickert, A., & Marr, J. (2026). Short Communication: The need for open-source hardware, software, and data-sharing specifications in geomorphology. Earth Surface Dynamics, 14(1), 85–94. doi: 10.5194/esurf-14-85-2026

  3. Moodie, A. J., & Goudge, T. A. (2025). Fluvial reworking eliminates small craters, but does not meaningfully bias the Mars interbedded-crater record. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130. doi: 10.1029/2023JE008183

  4. Tull, N., Moodie, A. J., & Passalacqua, P. (2024). River-Floodplain Connectivity and Residence Times Controlled by Topographic Bluffs Along a Backwater Transition. Frontiers in Water, 5. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1306481

  5. Hariharan, J., Wright, K., Moodie, A., Tull, N., & Passalacqua, P. (2023). Impacts of human modifications on material transport in deltas. Earth Surface Dynamics, 11(3), 405–427. doi: 10.5194/esurf-11-405-2023

  6. Limaye, A. B., Adler, J. B., Moodie, A. J., Whipple, K. X., & Howard, A. D. (2023). Effect of Standing Water on Formation of Fan-Shaped Sedimentary Deposits at Hypanis Valles, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. doi: 10.1029/2022GL102367

  7. Wu, C., Kim, W., Herring, R., Cardenas, B., Dong, T., Ma, H., Moodie, A. J., Tsai, F. T. C., Li, A., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2023). Pace of meandering and avulsion set river sinuosity near coast on Earth and Mars. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01231-1

  8. Moodie, A., Carlson, B., Foreman, B., Kwang, J., Naito, K., & Nittrouer, J. (2022). SedEdu: software organizing sediment-related educational modules. Journal of Open Source Education, 5(56), 129. doi: 10.21105/jose.00129

  9. Hariharan, J., Passalacqua, P., Xu, Z., Michael, H. A., Steel, E., Chadwick, A., Paola, C., & Moodie, A. J. (2022). Modeling the Dynamic Response of River Deltas to Sea-Level Rise Acceleration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(9). doi: 10.1029/2022JF006762

  10. Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Wang, Y., & Lamb, M. P. (2021). Suspended-sediment induced stratification inferred from concentration and velocity profile measurements in the flooding lower Yellow River, China. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR027192

  11. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Swanson, T. E., Moodie, A. J., Dong, T. Y., Ma, H., Kineke, G. C., Pan, M., & Wang, H. (2021). The effects of engineered diversions and natural avulsions on abandoned lobe development and shoreline stability. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2021GL092438

  12. Moodie, A. J., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2021). Optimized river diversion scenarios promote sustainability of urbanized deltas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(27). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101649118

  13. Moodie, A. J., Hariharan, J., Barefoot, E., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). pyDeltaRCM: a flexible numerical delta model. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(64), 3398. doi: 10.21105/joss.03398

  14. Moodie, A. J., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). When does faulting-induced subsidence drive distributary network reorganization? Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22). doi: 10.1029/2021GL095053

  15. Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Wu, B., Lamb, M. P., Zhang, Y., Mohrig, D., Fu, X., Naito, K., Wang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, G., Hu, C., & Parker, G. (2020). Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911225116

  16. de Leeuw, J., Lamb, M. P., Parker, G., Moodie, A. J., Haught, D., Venditti, J. G., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2020). Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel. Earth Surface Dynamics. doi: 10.5194/esurf-8-485-2020

  17. Lamb, M. P., Leeuw, J. de, Fischer, W., Moodie, A. J., Venditti, J. G., Nittrouer, J. A., Haught, D., & Parker, G. (2020). Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed-material. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0602-5

  18. Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., McElroy, B. J., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., Ma, H., & Moodie, A. J. (2020). Predicting water and sediment partitioning in a delta channel network under varying discharge conditions. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR027199

  19. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Moodie, A. J., Kineke, G. C., Kumpf, L. L., Ma, H., Parsons, D. R., & Wang, H. (2020). Infilling Abandoned Deltaic Distributary Channels Through Landward Sediment Transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(2). doi: 10.1029/2019JF005254

  20. Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., Moodie, A. J., Parker, G., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2019). Origin of a Preferential Avulsion Node on Lowland River Deltas. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(8), 4267–4277. doi: 10.1029/2019GL082491

  21. Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., & Parker, G. (2019). Modeling Deltaic Lobe-Building Cycles and Channel Avulsions for the Yellow River Delta, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(11), 2438–2462. doi: 10.1029/2019JF005220

  22. An, C., Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Naito, K., & Parker, G. (2018). Morphodynamic model of lower Yellow River: flux or entrainment form for sediment mass conservation? Earth Surface Dynamics, 6(4), 989–1010. doi: 10.5194/esurf-6-989-2018

  23. Moodie, A. J., Pazzaglia, F. J., & Berti, C. (2017). Exogenic forcing and autogenic processes on continental divide location and mobility. Basin Research. doi: 10.1111/bre.12256

  24. Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Naito, K., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, Y., Wu, B., & Parker, G. (2017). The exceptional sediment load of fine-grain dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China. Science Advances, 3, 7. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1603114