User:Awickert

Welcome to my page! I'm not very active these days, but feel free to leave me a message, especially if you want a hand with an Earth-science-type article. And if I don't reply... then the Wikipedia message was likely filtered in my email notifications, so Google search my name and send me an email directly ; )

Andy Wickert (talk) 19:15, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

About me

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Minnesota and at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory. I research rivers, glaciers, sea-level, and water resources in the past and present (research group page), and in particular work to understand the mechanics and rates of their response to various drivers, including climate and land-use change. I also lead Northern Widget LLC, an open-source technology company that incorporates modern technology to build high-quality field instrumentation at affordable prices.

Some links

• User:Awickert/Sandbox
• Template:Fact
• Wikipedia:UTM
• Wikipedia:Citation templates
• WP:AIV

Current Project

[Life!]

To-Do list

• Sed transport clean-up and split into sub-articles
• Exner equation: revise, fully cite, get better permissions than "Fair Use" for the image, get an assessment
• Look at Manning formula, Hack's law, Playfair's Law, WP university stuff
• Bar (river morphology) and shoal
• Tensor
• Create article on concordia diagram
• Pole shift hypothesis: define, fork off to change in obliquity and TPW, and general education of relationship to mass media / entertainment
• Figure out where to put Wave-formed ripple
• Landscape evolution model: expand, maybe try for a DYK because I don't know how that works. Run CHILD and make an animation / figure with GT's permission.
• Create articles and a main page for the Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy of the Upper Midwestern United States
• Flexural isostasy stuff: make some animations with my model once I publish something on it that is good enough to cite
• River needs to move into this century in terms of the geomorphology
• Would be nice to make geology a featured article; seems very hard, but WP should have core articles be featured. Will I ever get to it?
• Make something that ties together glacial-hydro-isostatic adjustment, geoid changes, and sea level, in a way that is understandable, especially with current interest and concerns in the Holocene and climate change.
• Maybe do a 1D model run of a glacier to make illustrations of its response to climate
• Mantle wedge - Expand and link to
• Flux melting
• Reference and link to slab (geology)
• Fix my goofs in Playfair's Law
• Write Colorado River Extensional Corridor
• Flat-slab subduction: yes, I opened that box
• Merges:
  • Merge Bench (geology), Terrace (geology), and Marine terrace
  • Corrasion = old term. Merge with abrasion (geology)
  • Merge Cosmogenic radionuclide dating and Surface exposure dating
• Look at Stream power law

Images to incorporate into articles

• File:Teton fault block.jpg
• File:Catskill Magnafacies.svg
• File:Geology of UK - Section from Snowdon to Harwich.jpg
• File:Uklon_vrasy.png
• File:Formation of passive margins.png
• File:PMfinal.png
• File:Lyell Principles frontispiece.jpg
• File:Brittle Ductile.gif
• File:Brittle Ductile.gif

Articles Started

Articles Significantly Edited (i.e., I wrote most of the content but didn't start them)

(trying to get to be not horribly out of date)

Images Uploaded

• [Image:PaolaExnerEqnRock.jpg]
• ..several more at Wikimedia Commons...

Userboxes, etc.

Projects This user is a participant in WikiProject Geology. This user is a participant in WikiProject Minnesota. This user participates in WikiProject Archaeology. This user is a member of WikiProject Lego. This user participates in WikiProject History of Science. Wiki Project Science This user participates in WikiProject Physics. This user is a participant in the WikiProject Glaciers. This user participates in the Solar System task force. This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas. This user is a participant in WikiProject Rivers. This user contributes to vital articles on Wikipedia. This user is a participant in WikiProject Venezuela This user is part of the Welcoming Committee.

Science This user is a geoscientist or is specializing in geoscience. This user is interested in rivers and fluvial processes. This user is interested in the natural sciences. This user realizes that the Earth isn't an oblate spheroid, but rather a close approximation of one. This user is fascinated by glaciers. ∂ 2 Ψ ∂ t 2 = ∇ 2 Ψ {\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\frac {\partial ^{2}\Psi }{\partial t^{2}}}=\nabla ^{2}\Psi } This user is interested in mathematical physics. This user has a keen interest in physics. This user is interested in planetary geology. AD This user prefers BC and AD for dates; CE is just a euphemism that hides the etymology.

History and Archaeology This user is interested in the Middle Ages This user is interested in ancient civilizations. This user is interested in Pre-Islamic Arab civilizations. This user is interested in the Ancient Near East This user is interested in Carthage. This user is an amateur Archaeologist.

Education This user attends or attended MIT. This user is a student or alumnus of the University of Colorado.

Location This user is from the Twin Cities. This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Minnesota. This user lives in the U.S. State of Colorado. This user lives in or is from the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Sports This user prefers nordic skiing to downhill. MIN This user is a fan of the Minnesota Twins MIN This user is a fan of the Minnesota Wild

Miscellaneous This user contributes using Ubuntu. This user is awed by the Earthrise photo from Apollo 8. A, B, and A and B This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing. "…"! US vs. UK This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! + This user, like every other sane person, wants to be paid more. This user is a child at heart. He might have grown older, but he'll never grow up. In an emergency, this user may be slapped with a trout. This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.