Andrew Wickert

Andrew Wickert

McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Faculty, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory
Associate, Institute on the Environment

Aeolian erosion and deposition

Wind can bring in new sediments and can scour and erode bedrock and loose material, affecting the mass balance of hillslopes.

Learning Goals

  • Understand how source and sink terms work in differential equations
  • Know how aeolian processes can affect mass balance on hillslopes

Podcast

This is a quick review of hillslope processes: where we’ve come from, and where we’re going.

Videos

Background: Loessic landscapes

This video includes some background on landscapes formed in wind-blown sediment while perhaps slightly overdoing the “China is amazing” theme. In a mostly cute way.

Aeolian processes and hillslope mass balance

Note: I say and write “venefact” when I mean “ventifact”! It turns out that this is something that I’ve only ever heard in lectures myself, and I heard it wrong. Replace that word in your mind.

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