PhD, 2008: Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California.
BSc, 2003: Mathematics/Geology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
2009-2011: Physical Scientist, United States Geological Survey Alaska Science Center,, Anchorage, Alaska.
2011-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
2014-2019: Contract Scientist, United States Geological Survey, Lakewood, Colorado.
2020-2021: Contract Scientist, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
2013-2021: Contract Scientist, USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2022-present: Research Associate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA.
Ashley is a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan at Canmore. Ashley’s research has focused in four broad areas: (i) geophysical numerical analysis; (ii) large-scale hydrology simulation; (iii) glacier-process modeling; and (iv) tropical land-atmosphere interactions. Ashley has published her work leading international journals, including Journal of Geophysical Research, Water Resources Research, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Van Beusekom Ashley E., Viger Roland J., 2018: A physically based daily simulation of the glacier-dominated hydrology of the Copper River Basin Alaska. Water Resources Research https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022625
Spiteri, R. J., VanBeusekom, A. E., Klenk, K., Zolfaghari, R., Trim, S. J., Knoben, W. J. M., Ireson, A. M., Clark M. P., 2024: Accurate and efficient numerical simulation of land models using SUMMA with SUNDIALS. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004256
About CAPE: We bring together observations, models, and data science to improve understanding and prediction of hydrological processes across scales from hillslopes to continents.
Land and Water Acknowledgement: We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on Treaty 7 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis, Tsuut'ina, Stoney, and Blackfoot. We thank these nations for their care and stewardship over this land and water, and we pay respect to the ancestors of these places.