Weber A. M., Beaudon, E., Sierra-Hernández, M. R., Davis, M., Kenny, D., Shutkin, T. Y., & Thompson, L. G. (2026). On the influence of mineral dust on glacial albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 131(7). DOI:10.1029/2025JD045574
Veghte, D., Weber, A. M., Beaudon, E., and Thompson, L. G. (2025). In-situ characterization of dust nodules in ice cores from the Tibetan Plateau. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 31(7). DOI:10.1093/mam/ozaf048.966
Weber, A. M. (2025). Algorithms for SEM-EDS mineral dust classification Journal of Open Source Software. 10(107). DOI:10.21105/joss.07533
Weber, A. M., Thompson, L. G., Davis, M., Mosley-Thompson, E., Beaudon, E., Kenny, D., Lin, P.-N., and Sierra-Hernández, M. R. (2023). Drivers of δ18O variability preserved in ice cores from Earth's highest tropical mountain. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 128(19). DOI:10.1029/2023JD039006
Conference poster presentation at Mineralogical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona
Proceedings paper and poster presentation at Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
Conference poster presentation at U.S. Ice Core Community Meeting, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
Conference poster presentation at Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Talk and poster at Interdisciplinary Water Research Symposium hosted by Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Talk and poster at Graduate Climate Conference hosted by the University of Washington and MIT, Virtual Meeting (COVID-19 Pandemic)
Conference poster presentation at Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Berea, Kentucky
2025 - Friends of Orton Hall Ph.D. Research Grant for Ice Core Mineral Dust Analysis ($4,159)
2025 - Wiley Top Viewed Article Recognition for article ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published in 2023.
2024 - Michael Johnson Graduate Student Award – Outstanding PhD Candidate Starting Research
2023 - Distinguised Graduate Teaching Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, School of Earth Sciences
2023 - School of Earth Sciences Orton Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Research and Outreach
2022 - School of Earth Sciences Orton Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Research and Outreach
2021 - Friends of Orton Hall Research Grant for Electron Microscopy ($4,060)
2020 - University Fellowship, Awarded by the Graduate School at The Ohio State University
2020 - Berea College Chemistry Department Class of 1958 Research Excellence Award
2019 - Natural History Research Experience (NHRE) Internship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2019 - KBRIN Summer Research at the University of Louisville (accepted NHRE offer instead)
2019 - 1st Place Poster Presentation in Geology, Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
2019 - 3rd Place Men’s Javelin, NCAA Division III USA South Conference Championships
2016 - Berea College No Tuition-Promise Scholarship ($120,000)
2015 - Cincinnati Mercantile Library Timothy Crane Day Award for Creative Writing
2025 - SNICARv3 [Contributor]. The Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative model (SNICAR). Developed a graphical user interface (GUI) and functions to help users run the model locally in the MATLAB environment. https://github.com/mflanner/SNICARv3
2025 - EDS Classification. MATLAB and Julia algorithms for identifying minerals in SEM-EDS data. The repository also includes functions for reading and visualizng x-ray spectral data and extracting metadata from SEM images. https://github.com/weber1158/eds-classification
2025 - netIntensity.py. A “Jython” script (Python2 implemented in Java) for evaluating the net intensities of common mineral-forming elements from EDS spectra in the NIST software DTSA-II. https://github.com/weber1158/netIntensity.py
2025 - Colordle. A color guessing game inspired by the New York Times game Wordle. https://github.com/weber1158/colordle
2025 - cd2. A MATLAB function for changing the current folder. Calling cd2() opens a dropdown menu for users to choose from a list of favorite folders instead of requiring the user to manually input the full name of the folder path. https://github.com/weber1158/cd2
2025 - PDS. A graphical user interface (GUI) for working with the NCEI Paleo Data Search API in MATLAB. https://github.com/weber1158/pds
2024 - Core Stratigraphy Visualization. Repository of functions for making beautiful representations of ice, sediment, and rock cores. https://github.com/weber1158/core-plot
2024 - MATLAB Particle Size Functions. Repository of particle size functions written in MATLAB for evaluating log-normalized particle concentrations, converting particle diameter sizes from metric units to the phi “φ” scale (and vice-versa), and classifying particle sizes according to the Wentworth Scale. https://github.com/weber1158/MATLAB-particle-size-functions
2024 - Dracula. Implementation of the popular Dracula dark theme in MATLAB, specifically for converting figures into the Dracula theme. https://github.com/weber1158/dracula
2024 - groupedSpacedBoxchart. A modified version of the MATLAB function boxchart that allows the user to create grouped box charts with added spacing between the groups. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/166461
2024 - radialhistogram. A function for visualizing categorical data in polar coordinates in MATLAB. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/157796
2023 - ByrdDIT. The Byrd Data Import Tool: an easy-to-use MATLAB app designed for quickly downloading datasets published by the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center’s ice core paleoclimatology group. https://github.com/weber1158/ByrdDIT
2023 - Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru (5676 m a.s.l.). Objectives included (i) the collection of recently exposed plant material along the margins of the ice cap for carbon dating, (ii) drilling firn cores from the Quelccaya summit, and (iii) collecting snow surface samples for microbial, DNA, and RNA analyses. Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.
2019 - Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA (~4000 m a.s.l.). Rock sampling from the Mt. Princeton batholith (granodiorite) and the San Juan volcanic field (Fish Canyon tuff). Department of Mineral Science, Smithsonian Institution.
Graduate
Advanced Oceanography · Ecohydrology · Elemental Chemical Analysis using ICP-Optical Emission and Mass Spectrometry · Geomorphology · Glaciology · Intro to Geochemistry · Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Earth Sciences · Paleoclimatology · Scanning Electron Microscopy · Seminar in Glaciology and Geomorphology · Seminar in Hyrdoclimatology · Seminar in Stratigraphy (Field course; Guadalupe Mtns., TX) · Stratigraphy and Sedimentation · Weather, Climate, and Global Warming
Undergraduate
Advanced Chromatography · Advanced Spectroscopy · Advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy · Advanced Organic Synthesis · Analytical Chemistry · Biochemistry I & II · Calculus I & II · Cell & Molecular Biology · Inorganic Chemistry · Mineralogy · Organic Chemistry I & II · Physics I & II