Karl Wegmann
Area(s) of Expertise
- Geomorphology of Rocky Coasts
- Active Tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Sediment Dynamics of the Cascadia Margin
- Coastal Geoarchaeology
Research Summary
My research focuses on the use of landforms and Earth surface processes to understand the Neogene (last 5 million year) history of coastal margins in tectonically active environments. Along the coastal zone of Washington state, I am investigating the potential coupling between seismic events and upland sediment production via earthquake-triggered landslides. From the Greek island of Crete, I am studying terrestrial and marine sedimentary basin formation above the retreating Hellenic subduction zone. And in both places, I collaborate with archaeologists to improve our understanding of coastal-zone occupation by pre-historic peoples.
Publications
- A geospatial and archaeological investigation of an African-American cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA , ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION (2023)
- Back from the past? Assessment of nitrogen removal ability of buried historic wetland soils before and after a 1-year incubation on a restored floodplain , RESTORATION ECOLOGY (2023)
- Curvature Weighted Decimation: A Novel, Curvature-Based Approach to Improved Lidar Point Decimation of Terrain Surfaces , Geomatics (2023)
- Planetary geoarchaeology as a new frontier in archaeological science: Evaluating site formation processes on Earth's Moon , GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (2023)
- The case for a lunar anthropocene , NATURE GEOSCIENCE (2023)
- A Morphometric Investigation of Large-Scale Crustal Shortening on Mars , JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS (2022)
- CLUMPED ISOTOPE CONSTRAINTS ON WARMING AND PRECIPITATION SEASONALITY IN MONGOLIA FOLLOWING ALTAI UPLIFT , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE (2022)
- Channel head response to anthropogenic landscape modification: A case study from the North Carolina Piedmont, USA, with implications for water quality , Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2022)
- Contrasting late Miocene to present weathering regimes across the Khangay Mountains, Mongolia , Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X (2022)
- Decoupling between fluvial aggradation-incision dynamics and paleo-denudation rates during the last glacial cycle, Crete, Greece , (2022)