Patricia Wiberg is a professor at

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known for her research on the transport of sediments in aquatic environments.

Education and career

Wiberg has a B.A. in mathematics from

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(1976), and an M.S. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1987) from the

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. Wiberg is a fellow of the

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, and a fellow of the

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who cited her "for distinguished contributions to understanding the causes and consequences of sediment movements in aquatic systems."

Research

Wiberg studies coastal environments with a focus on how disturbances such as storms, sea-level rise, and temperature change coastal areas Through her integration of data and models, she examines changes in salt marshes in the context of environmental changes. While in graduate school, Wiberg and colleagues found evidence in the

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beds in Texas for a tsunami that was at least 1000 feet high which would have occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. She has also examined the impact of the shape of sediments on eddy correlation flux measurements. Since 2006, Wiberg has been a co-principal investigator at the National Science Foundation-funded

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where she has been working on water and sediment dynamics.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

* Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2017) *Fellow,

(2020)

References

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