Publications
13. Bellas‐Manley, A., Kang, K., Becker, T. W., & Nerem, R. S. (2026). 3D variations in viscosity reconcile the strength of the lower mantle inferred from glacial isostatic adjustment and mantle convection. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL120160. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120160 [the paper]

12. 2. Thompson PR, M.J. Widlansky, B. Beckley, A. Bellas-Manley, D.P. Chambers, B.D. Hamlington, S. Jevrejeva, F.W. Landerer, E. Leuliette, M.A. Merrifield, G.T. Mitchum, R.S. Nerem, and W. Sweet, "Sea Level Variability and Change [in State of the Climate 2024]." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106 (8) (August, 2025): S200, https://doi.org/10.1175/2025BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

11. Bellas‐Manley, A., Nerem, R. S., & Hamlington, B. D. (2025). Extrapolation of the satellite altimeter record to understand regional variations in future sea level change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2024JC022094. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC022094 [the paper]

10. Karnauskas, K. B., Nerem, R. S., Fasullo, J. T., Bellas‐Manley, A., Thompson, P. R., Coats, S., et al. (2025). Diagnosing regional sea level change over the altimeter era. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2024JC022100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC022100 [the paper]

9. Loomis, B. D., Sabaka, T. J., Rachlin, K. E., Croteau, M. J., Lemoine, F. G., Nerem, R. S., & Bellas‐Manley, A. (2025). Optimized J2 recovery for multi‐decadal geophysical studies. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL114472. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114472 [the paper]

8. Hamlington, B.D., Bellas-Manley, A., Willis, J.K. et al. (2024), The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades. Nature Commun Earth Environ 5, 601. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01761-5 [the paper]

7. Rodell, M., Barnoud, A., Robertson, F.R., Richard P. Allan, A. Bellas-Manley, M. G. Bosilovich, D. Chambers, F. Landerer, B. Loomis, R. S. Nerem, M. M. O’Neill, D. Wiese & S. I. Seneviratne (2024), An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change. Surv Geophys. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-024-09860-w [the paper]

6. Bellas-Manley, A., & Royden, L. (2024). Basal mantle flow over LLSVPs explains differences in Pacific and Indo-Atlantic hotspot motions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB027636. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027636 [the paper]

5. Bellas, A., S.J. Zhong, & A.B. Watts (2022), Reconciling lithospheric rheology between laboratory experiments, field observations, and different tectonic settings, Geophysical Journal International, 228, 857–875. [the paper] [the talk]

4. Bellas, A., & S.J. Zhong (2021), Effects of a weak lower crust on the flexure of continental lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 126, 10, e2021JB022678. [the paper] [the talk]

3. Bellas, A., & S.J. Zhong (2021), Seismic strain rate and flexure at the Hawaiian Islands constrain the frictional coefficient, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009547. [the paper]

2. Bellas, A., S.J. Zhong, & A.B. Watts (2020), Constraints on the rheology of the lithosphere from flexure of the Pacific plate at the Hawaiian Islands, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, 2, e2019GC008819. [the paper]

1. Bellas, A., S.J. Zhong, D. Bercovici & E. Mulyukova (2018), Dynamic weakening with grain-damage and implications for slab detachment, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 285, 76–90. [the paper]