Talia Anderson

University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Biography

I am a University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society. I recently completed another postdoctoral fellowship with the NOAA Climate & Global Change Program and was based at the University of California - Los Angeles in the McKinnon Group. My research focuses on climate variability and change in mountain landscapes across different spatial and temporal scales. I use a variety of data types, from models to satellite imagery, to explore climate impacts in both localized areas and large, multi-country regions.

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Interests

Climate variability & change
Extreme events
Agricultural decision-making
Collaborative research

Education

PhD in Geography, 2024

University of Arizona
MA in Geography, 2020

University of Arizona
BSc in Geography, BA in Spanish Studies, 2016

University of Minnesota

Projects

Agricultural Decision-Making and Climate Variability in Guatemala

Agricultural Decision-Making and Climate Variability in Guatemala

Integrating multiple sources of data to better characterize climate change and variability and to make climate information more useful for farmers

Central American Mid-Summer Drought & Rainfall Extremes

Central American Mid-Summer Drought & Rainfall Extremes

Evaluating changes in extreme events and the summer dry period across Central America with high resolution climate data

Western Altiplano Peatland Productivity

Western Altiplano Peatland Productivity

Using NDVI to explore peatland productivity and climate relationships in northern Chile

Upper Lake Mary Lake Level Variability

Upper Lake Mary Lake Level Variability

Evaluating lake level records and their relationships to climate variables

Central American Dendrochronology

Central American Dendrochronology

Building a network of tree-ring chronologies from Guatemala and Honduras

Featured Publications

Talia Anderson, Diego Pons, Matthew Taylor, Antonia Xuruc, Hugo H. Rodríguez Salvatierra, Zack Guido, Jonathan A. Sullivan, Diana Liverman, Kevin J. Anchukaitis (2025). Complexity and mediating factors in farmers' climate perceptions and agricultural adaptation strategies in the Guatemalan Dry Corridor. Climatic Change, 178(139).

Talia Anderson, Karen A. McKinnon, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Diego Pons (2023). How Exceptional Was the 2015–2019 Central American Drought?. Geophysical Research Letters.

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Lydia Jennings, Talia Anderson, Andrew Martinez, Rogena Sterling, Dominique David Chavez, Ibrahim Garba, Maui Hudson, Nanibaa' A. Garrison, Stephanie Russo Carroll (2023). Applying the 'CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance' to ecology and biodiversity research. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Talia Anderson, Duncan A. Christie, Roberto O. Chávez, Matias Olea, Kevin J Anchukaitis (2021). Spatiotemporal peatland productivity and climate relationships across the western South American Altiplano. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences.

Roberto O. Chávez, Duncan A. Christie, Matias Olea, Talia Anderson (2019). A Multiscale Productivity Assessment of High Andean Peatlands across the Chilean Altiplano Using 31 Years of Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing, 11(24).

Talia Anderson, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Diego Pons, Matthew Taylor (2019). Multiscale trends and precipitation extremes in the Central American Midsummer Drought. Environmental Research Letters, 14(12).

Talia Anderson, Daniel Griffin, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Diego Pons, Matthew J. Taylor (2018). Climate Sensitivity and Potential Vulnerability of Guatemalan Fir (Abies guatemalensis) Forests in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Geography, 17(1).

Talia Anderson, Daniel Griffin, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Diego Pons, Matthew J. Taylor (2018). Climate Sensitivity and Potential Vulnerability of Guatemalan Fir (Abies guatemalensis) Forests in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Geography, 17(1).