Patricia Wiberg is a professor at University of Virginia known for her research on the transport of sediments in aquatic environments.
[1][2] Wiberg is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science who cited her "for distinguished contributions to understanding the causes and consequences of sediment movements in aquatic systems.
[6] While in graduate school, Wiberg and colleagues found evidence in the Brazos River beds in Texas for a tsunami that was at least 1000 feet high which would have occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary.
[7][8] She has also examined the impact of the shape of sediments on eddy correlation flux measurements.
[9] Since 2006, Wiberg has been a co-principal investigator at the National Science Foundation-funded Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research[10][11] where she has been working on water and sediment dynamics.