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Patricia Wiberg

Patricia Wiberg is a professor at University of Virginia known for her research on the transport of sediments in aquatic environments.

Patricia Louise Wiberg
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia
ThesisMechanics of bedload sediment transport (1987)

Education and career

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Wiberg has a B.A. in mathematics from Brown University (1976), and an M.S. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Washington.[1][2] Wiberg is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science who cited her "for distinguished contributions to understanding the causes and consequences of sediment movements in aquatic systems."[3][4]

Research

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Wiberg studies coastal environments with a focus on how disturbances such as storms, sea-level rise, and temperature change coastal areas[4][5] Through her integration of data and models, she examines changes in salt marshes in the context of environmental changes.[6] While in graduate school, Wiberg and colleagues found evidence in the Brazos River beds in Texas for a tsunami that was at least 1000 feet high which would have occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary.[7][8] She has also examined the impact of the shape of sediments on eddy correlation flux measurements.[9] Since 2006, Wiberg has been a co-principal investigator at the National Science Foundation-funded Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research[10][11] where she has been working on water and sediment dynamics.[12][13]

Selected publications

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  • Hornberger, George M.; Wiberg, Patricia L.; Raffensperger, Jeff P.; D'Odorico, Paolo (2014). Elements of Physical Hydrology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421413730.
  • Bourgeois, J.; Hansen, T. A.; Wiberg, P. L.; Kauffman, E. G. (1988-07-29). "A Tsunami Deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Texas". Science. 241 (4865): 567–570. doi:10.1126/science.241.4865.567. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17774578. S2CID 7447635.
  • Wiberg, Patricia L.; Harris, Courtney K. (1994). "Ripple geometry in wave-dominated environments". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 99 (C1): 775–789. doi:10.1029/93JC02726. ISSN 2156-2202.
  • Wiberg, Patricia L.; Smith, J. Dungan (1987). "Calculations of the critical shear stress for motion of uniform and heterogeneous sediments". Water Resources Research. 23 (8): 1471–1480. doi:10.1029/WR023i008p01471. ISSN 1944-7973.
  • Wiberg, Patricia L.; Fagherazzi, Sergio; Kirwan, Matthew L. (3 January 2020). "Improving Predictions of Salt Marsh Evolution Through Better Integration of Data and Models". Annual Review of Marine Science. 12 (1): 389–413. doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-010610. ISSN 1941-1405. PMID 31283424. S2CID 195845288.

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Patricia L. Wiberg • Faculty Directory". facultydirectory.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  2. ^ "Front Matter", Numerical Methods in the Hydrological Sciences, Special Publications, American Geophysical Union (AGU), pp. i–ix, 2005, doi:10.1002/9781118709528.fmatter, ISBN 978-1-118-70952-8, retrieved 2021-07-16
  3. ^ a b "AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  4. ^ a b "Accolades: Prestigious Science Organization Recognizes 4 More Professors as Fellows". UVA Today. 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  5. ^ Wiberg, Patricia (2000). "A perfect storm:formation and potential for preservation of storm beds on the continental shelf" (PDF). 13. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Wiberg, Patricia L.; Fagherazzi, Sergio; Kirwan, Matthew L. (2020-01-03). "Improving Predictions of Salt Marsh Evolution Through Better Integration of Data and Models". Annual Review of Marine Science. 12 (1): 389–413. doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-010610. ISSN 1941-1405. PMID 31283424. S2CID 195845288.
  7. ^ Ap (1988-08-02). "Texas Deposit Yields Signs of Big Meteorite". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  8. ^ Bourgeois, J.; Hansen, T. A.; Wiberg, P. L.; Kauffman, E. G. (1988-07-29). "A Tsunami Deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Texas". Science. 241 (4865): 567–570. doi:10.1126/science.241.4865.567. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17774578. S2CID 7447635.
  9. ^ Berg, Peter; Røy, Hans; Wiberg, Patricia L. (2007). "Eddy correlation flux measurements: The sediment surface area that contributes to the flux". Limnology and Oceanography. 52 (4): 1672–1684. doi:10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1672. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-CE3A-7. ISSN 1939-5590. S2CID 15078295.
  10. ^ "Long-Term Drivers, State Change and Disturbance on the Virginia Coast Reserve: LTER V; NSF Award 0621014".
  11. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1832221 - LTER: Climate drivers, dynamics, and consequences of ecosystem state change in coastal barrier systems". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
  12. ^ Vaughn, Carol. "Sea level rise and storms: How a Va. Shore center is helping researchers study impacts". The Daily Times. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
  13. ^ Nardin, William; Larsen, Laurel; Fagherazzi, Sergio; Wiberg, Patricia (2018-10-15). "Tradeoffs among hydrodynamics, sediment fluxes and vegetation community in the Virginia Coast Reserve, USA". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 210: 98–108. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2018.06.009. ISSN 0272-7714. S2CID 134759262.
  14. ^ "Wiberg". Honors Program. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
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