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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:

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:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.006.

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: 10.1130/GES00083.1.

Wegmann, K.W., 2006, Digital landslide inventory for the Cowlitz County Urban Corridor, Washington: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Report of Investigation 35, version 1.0, 28 p.

Polenz, M., Wegmann, K.W. and Schasse, H. W., 2004, Geologic map of the Elwha and Angeles Point 7.5-minute quadrangles, Clallam County, Washington: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open File Report 2004-14, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Schasse, H. W., Wegmann, K. W. and Polenz, M., 2004, Geologic map of the Port Angeles and Ediz Hook 7.5-minute quadrangles, Clallam County, Washington: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open File Report 2004-13, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Pazzaglia, F.J., Thackray, G.D., Brandon, M.T., Wegmann, K.W., Gosse, J., McDonald, E., Garcia, A.F., and Prothero, D., 2003, Tectonic geomorphology and the record of Quaternary plate boundary deformation in the Olympic Mountains, in Swanson, T.W., ed., Western Cordillera and adjacent areas: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Field Guide 4, p. 37-67.

Wegmann, K.W. and Pazzaglia, F.J., 2002, Holocene strath terraces, climate change, and active tectonics—The Clearwater River basin, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, no. 6, p. 731-744.

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