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American hydrologist
Patricia Wiberg is a professor at
University of Virginia known for her research on the transport of sediments in aquatic environments.
Education and career
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 .
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[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."
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[4]
Research
Wiberg studies coastal environments with a focus on how disturbances such as storms, sea-level rise, and temperature change coastal areas
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[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 .
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[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
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[11] where she has been working on water and sediment dynamics.
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Selected publications
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
References
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"Patricia L. Wiberg • Faculty Directory" . facultydirectory.virginia.edu . Retrieved 2021-07-16 .
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"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
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"AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science" . www.aaas.org . Retrieved 2021-07-16 .
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"Accolades: Prestigious Science Organization Recognizes 4 More Professors as Fellows" . UVA Today . 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2021-07-16 .
^ Wiberg, Patricia (2000).
"A perfect storm:formation and potential for preservation of storm beds on the continental shelf" (PDF) . 13 .
^ 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 .
^ Ap (1988-08-02).
"Texas Deposit Yields Signs of Big Meteorite" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-07-16 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
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"Long-Term Drivers, State Change and Disturbance on the Virginia Coast Reserve: LTER V; NSF Award 0621014" .
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"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 .
^ Vaughn, Carol.
"Sea level rise and storms: How a Va. Shore center is helping researchers study impacts" . The Daily Times . Retrieved 2021-07-17 .
^ 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 .
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"Wiberg" . Honors Program . Retrieved 2021-07-16 .
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