Karl Wegmann

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Bio

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in General Geology and Natural Hazards, Earth Surface Processes (Geomorphology), and Field Geology (aka Field Camp). Students in my group conduct research around the world, including in Mongolia, Greece, the Pacific Northwest, and of course in North Carolina. Typical student research projects include a combination of field-based studies that are paired with geospatial analysis and modeling.

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Area(s) of Expertise

My research interests include the intersections of the fields of geomorphology, active tectonics, paleoseismology, paleoclimatology, biogeomorphology, and geoarchaeology.

Publications

• A Late Holocene sedimentary record of earthquakes and hydroclimate from Ozette Lake, Washington, USA , QUATERNARY RESEARCH (2025)
• Paleoclimate and landscape evolution in an extreme continental interior – Interplay between aeolian, fluvial, and lacustrine systems in the Basin of the Great Lakes, Western Mongolia , (2025)
• The characteristics and timing of multiphase major landslides along the Blue Ridge Escarpment of the southern Appalachians revealed by combined cosmogenic nuclide dating and Schmidt hammer rebound measurements , GEOMORPHOLOGY (2025)
• The impact of river capture on fluvial terraces and bedrock incision , EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS (2025)
• Using paleolake shorelines to estimate lithospheric strength and response rates: Field observations and flexural isostatic modeling of Lake Khyargas, western Mongolia. , (2025)
• Machine learning-based assessment of regional-scale variation of landslide susceptibility in central Vietnam , PLOS ONE (2024)
• The emerging archaeological record of Mars , NATURE ASTRONOMY (2024)
• 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)

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