Education

• 2005 Ph.D. in Geology, Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona
  
• 2000 M.S. in Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Wyoming
  
• 1996 B.S. in Geology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Publications

Stubbins, B., Leier, A. L., Barbeau, D. L., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Nie, J., Zárate, M. A. and Fidler, M. K., 2023,
Global climate forcing on late Miocene establishment of the Pampean aeolian system in South America: Nature
Communications, v. 14, p. 6899.

White, S., Smoak, E., Leier, A.L., Wilson, A.M., 2023, Small Muddy Paleochannels and Implications for Submarine
Groundwater Discharge near Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Geosciences, v.13,
doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13080232.

Bruner, A., Leier, A.L., Barbeau, D.L. Jr., Pullen, A., Fidler, M.K., Stubbins, B., 2022, Detrital zircon provenance
and transport pathways of Pleistocene-Holocene eolian sediment in the Pampean Plains, Argentina: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, doi.org/10.1130/B36267.1.

Pullen, A., Barbeau, D.L. Jr., Leier, A.L., Abell, J.T., Ward, M., Bruner, A., Fidler, M.K., 2022, A westerly wind
dominated Puna Plateau during deposition of the upper Pleistocene loessic sediments in the subtropical Andes,
South America: Nature Communications, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31118-5.

Corradino, J., Pullen, A., Leier, A., Barbeau, D.L., Scher, H., Weislogel, A., Bruner, A., Leckie, D.A., and Currie,
L., 2022, The ancestral trans-North American Bell River system recorded in late Oligocene to early Miocene
sediments in the Labrador Sea and Canadian Great Plains: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 134, p.130-
144, doi.org/10.1130/B35903.1.

Rubino, E., Leier, A., Cassel, E.J., Archibald, S.B., Foster-Baril, Z., Barbeau, D.L., 2021, Detrital zircon U-Pb ages
and Hf-isotopes from Eocene intermontane basin deposits of the southern Canadian Cordillera: Sedimentary
Geology, v. 422, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.105969.

George, C., Moore, W.S., White, S.M., Smoak, E., Joye, S.B., Leier, A., and Wilson, A.M., 2020, A new mechanism
for submarine groundwater discharge from continental shelves: Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR026866.
Chesley, J.T. and Leier, A.L., 2018, Sandstone body variability in ancient distributive fluvial system deposits, Salt
Wash Member of the Morrison Formation, Utah, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 88, p. 568-582.

Associations

AAPG, AGU, GSA, SEPM, CSPG, IAS, GAC