Patricia Wiberg

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

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.[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

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

  • 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

  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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