Publications

Peer-reviewed work and abstracts

Grouped by research line, reverse chronological within each. Work under review is labeled as such.

Machine learning and remote sensing

Under review · JGR Machine Learning and Computation

Foerder, A. B., Magocs, B. L., Thomson, B. J., and Bhidya, H. Toward paleoclimate mapping on Mars by detecting and classifying fracture junctions with machine learning.

LPSC 2026 · Abstract 1717 · Poster

Foerder, A. B., Thomson, B. J., Magocs, B. L. (2026) Earth-to-Mars Transfer Learning: A Novel Method for the Automatic Detection of Volatile-Influenced Landforms on Mars. 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract #1717. Bibcode 2026LPICo3160.1717F. PDF

Planetary geochemistry and Mars analogues

Cold Regions Science and Technology · 2025

Burton, Z. F. M., Koeberl, C., Bishop, J. L., Englert, P. A. J., Smith, M. P., Foerder, A. B., and Gibson, E. K. (2025) Controls on cold-climate critical minerals: regolith-hosted REE at three polar desert salt ponds (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica). Cold Regions Science and Technology 239: 104583. doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2025.104583

American Mineralogist · 2024

Foerder, A. B., Englert, P. A. J., Bishop, J. L., Koeberl, C., Burton, Z. F. M., Patel, S., and Gibson, E. K. (2024) Don Juan Basin, Antarctica: A chemically altering environment with martian analog potential. American Mineralogist 109: 682–700. doi:10.2138/am-2022-8779

Master's thesis · University of Hawai'i at Mānoa · 2020

Foerder, A. B. (2020) Chemical Alteration and Soil Provenance of Polar Desert Sediments from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: An Analog for Alteration Processes on Mars.

Conference abstracts

AGU 2023 · Poster

Foerder, A. B., Englert, P. A. J., Bishop, J. L., Szynkiewicz, A. (2023) Sulfate mineralogy and concentrations of Don Juan Basin, Antarctica: A geochemical analog for aqueously altered environments on Mars. AGU Fall Meeting 2023, abstract #1259082. Bibcode 2023AGUFM.P53D2785F.

LPSC 2023 · Abstract 2368 · Poster

Foerder, A. B., Englert, P. A. J., Koeberl, C., Bishop, J. L., Gibson, E. K. (2023) A Gradient of Chemical Alteration in Don Juan Basin, Antarctica, and Applications to Mars. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Record

LPSC 2023 · Abstract 2418 · Poster

Foerder, A. B., Englert, P. A. J., Koeberl, C., Bishop, J. L., Gibson, E. K. (2023) Accounting for Salt Dilution in the Chemical Index of Alteration: Applications to Don Juan Basin, Antarctica, and Mars. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Bibcode 2023LPICo2806.2418F.

GSA Connects · 2021 · Poster

Englert, P. A. J., Bishop, J. L., Foerder, A. B., Bailey, A., Burton, Z. F. M., Patel, S., Koeberl, C., Gibson, E. K. (2021) Weathering and Chemical Alteration in Wright Valley, Antarctica, as an Analog for Alteration on Mars. Geological Society of America Connects, paper 179-11. doi:10.1130/abs/2021AM-364655

LPSC 2020 · Abstract 2298 · Poster

Foerder, A. B., Englert, P. A. J., Bishop, J. L., Koeberl, C., Gibson, E. K. (2020) Rare Earth Element Abundances and Chemical Alteration in Microenvironments of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Bibcode 2020LPI....51.2298F.