Faculty & Staff Directory
Anya Hess
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Contact Info
- Name
- Anya V Hess
- Preferred Pronouns
- she/they
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Website
- Office Number
- Exploratory Hall 3417
Affiliations
Departments
- Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences Department (Research Faculty)
Research Areas
- Chemistry
- Climate Dynamics
- Climate Science
- Geology
- Ocean Sciences
- Paleoceanography
- Geochemistry
Education
PhD, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, (2024)
MS, Geology, University of Kansas, (2011)
BS, Geology, Bucknell University (2008)
About
My work focuses on understanding the oceans of the past. I am particularly interested in ocean oxygenation and its drivers, including ocean and atmospheric circulation, upwelling and downwelling areas of the ocean, and biological productivity. I use geochemical tools to do this.
Current Research
As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, I am studying North Pacific ocean circulation during the Pliocene. Please see my website for a complete list of my current research projects.
Selected Publications
Hess, A.V., Rosenthal., Y., Zhou, X., Bu, K., 2025, The I/Ca paleo-oxygenation proxy in planktonic foraminifera: A multispecies core-top calibration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 393, p. 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.01.018.
Hess, A.V., Auderset, A., Rosenthal, Y., Miller, K.G., Zhou, X., Sigman, D.M., and Martínez-García, A., 2023, A well oxygenated eastern tropical Pacific during the warm Miocene. Nature, v. 619, p. 521-525. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06104-6.
Hoogakker, B., Davis, C., Wang, Y., Kusch, S., Nilsson-Kerr, K., Hardisty, D., Jacobel, A., Reyes Macaya, D., Glock, N., Ni, S., Sepúlveda, J., Ren, A., Auderset, A., Hess, A.V., Meissner, K., Cardich, J., Anderson, R., Barras, C., Basak, C., Bradbury, H., Brinkmann, I., Castillo, A., Cook, M., Costa, K., Choquel, C., Diz, P., Donnenfield, J., Elling, F., Erdem, Z., Filipsson, H., Garrido, S., Gottschalk, J., Govindankutty Menon, A., Groeneveld, J., Hallman, C., Hendy, I., Hennekam, R., Lu, W., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Matos, L., Martínez-García, A., Molina, G., Muñoz, P., Moretti, S., Morford, J., Number, S., Radionovskaya, S., Raven, M., Somes, C., Studer, A., Tachikawa, K., Tapia, R., Tetard, M., Vollmer, T., Wu, S., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X.-Y., and Zhou, Y., 2025, Reviews and syntheses: Review of proxies for low-oxygen paleoceanographic reconstructions. EGU Sphere, v. 22, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-863-2025.
Zhou, X., Hess, A.V. (co-first authors), Bu, K., Sagawa, T., and Rosenthal, Y., 2022, Simultaneous determination of I/Ca and other elemental ratios in foraminifera using sector field ICP-MS, Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, v. 23, e2022GC010660. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010660.
Awards
Rutgers Outstanding Doctoral Student Merit and Achievement Award, 2024
Rutgers Richard K. Olsson Award for excellence in research, 2023
Rutgers Louis Bevier Fellowship, 2023
International Ocean Discovery Program Schlanger Fellowship, 2022-2023
Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Johanna M. Resig Fellowship, 2022–2023
Contact Info
- Name
- Anya V Hess
- Preferred Pronouns
- she/they
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Website
- Office Number
- Exploratory Hall 3417