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KARL W. WEGMANN

Dr. Karl Wegmann Assistant Professor
2123 Jordan Hall
515-0380
Email: karl_wegmann@ncsu.edu
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B.A., Geology, Whitman College, 1996

M.S., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 1999

Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 2008

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS:
My teaching and research interests include the fields of geomorphology, active tectonics, geodynamics, paleoseimology, paleoclimatology, and biogeomorphology. I approach research problems in a field-based, process-oriented, multidisciplinary manner. My research addresses questions such as:

How do landscapes respond to tectonic and climatic forcing, and are there distinct topographic, erosional, stratigraphic, and bio-genetic signatures of these forces?
How constant in space and time is strain accumulation and release across convergent margins? How do long-term geologic and geomorphic estimates compare to short-term geodetic measurements?
What conspiracy of geologic, seismologic, and climatic factors is important to the initiation of large, deep-seated bedrock landslides? Within a given region is the timing of landslide movement clustered or scattered?

Dr. Wegmann teaches classes in introductory and advanced Geomorphology, Earth Surface Processes, Active Tectonics, and Field Geology.

I am actively recruiting motivated graduate and undergraduate students to work on fluvial and tectonic geomorphology-related thesis research in the Carolinas, Washington State, Italy, Greece, and Mongolia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Gallen, S. F., Wegmann, K. W., Frankel, K. L., Hughes, S., Lewis, R. Q., Lyons, N., Paris, P., Ross, K., Bauer, J. B., and Witt, A. C., 2011, Hillslope response to knickpoint migration in the southern Appalachians: Implications for the evolution of post-orogenic landscapes: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 36, p. 1254-1267; DOI: 1210.1002/esp.2150.

Strasser, T. F., Runnels, C., Wegmann, K., Panagopoulou, E., McCoy, F., Digregorio, C., Karkanas, P., and Thompson, N., 2011, Dating Palaeolithic sites in southwestern Crete, Greece: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 26, no. 5, p. 553-560; DOI: 510.1002/jqs.1482.

Wegmann, K. W., Homburg, J. A., Bohnenstiehl, D. R., Bowman, J. D., Windingstad, J. D., and Huber, E. K., 2010, Geomorphology of the City of Port Angeles Waterfront, Technical Report 10-82: Tucson, Statistical Research, Inc., p. 121.

Frankel, K. L., Wegmann, K. W., Bayasgalan, A., Carson, R. J., Bader, N. E., Adiya, T., Bolor, E., Durfey, C. C., Otgonkhuu, J., Sprajcar, J., Sweeney, K. E., Walker, R. T., Marstellar, T. L., and Gregory, L., 2010, Late Pleistocene slip rate of the Höh Serh–Tsagaan Salaa fault system, Mongolian Altai and intracontinental deformation in central Asia: Geophysical Journal International, v. 183, no. 3, p. 1134-1150; DOI: 1110.1111/j.1365-1246X.2010.04826.x.

Eppes, M. C., McFadden, L. D., Wegmann, K. W., and Scuderi, L. A., 2010, Cracks in desert pavement rocks: Further insights into mechanical weathering by directional insolation: Geomorphology, v. 123, no. 1-2, p. 97-108; DOI: 110.1016/j.geomorph.2010.1007.1003

Wegmann, K. W., and Pazzaglia, F. J., 2009, Late Quaternary fluvial terraces of the Romagna and Marche Apennines, Italy: Climatic, lithologic, and tectonic controls on terrace genesis in an active orogen: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 28, no. 1-2, p. 137-165; DOI: 110.1016/j.quascirev.2008.1010.1006.

Wegmann, K. W., Zurek, B. D., Regalla, C. A., Bilardello, D., Wollenberg, J. L., Kopczynski, S. E., Ziemann, J. M., Haight, S. L., Apgar, J. D., Zhao, C., and Pazzaglia, F. J., 2007, Position of the Snake River watershed divide as an indicator of geodynamic processes in the greater Yellowstone region, western North America: Geosphere, v. 3, no. 4, p. 272-281; DOI: 210.1130/GES00083.00081.

Wegmann, K. W., and Pazzaglia, F. J., 2002, Holocene strath terraces of the Clearwater River basin; insights into terrace genesis and their suitability for determining long-term rates of deformation for the Olympic Mountains, Washington State: Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, 98th annual meeting Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 34, no. 5, p. 80.

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