Tag Archives: climate change

Climate Monday: Climate Change Hot Spots

acrawford April 2, 2018 7:32 pm

It’s no secret that global warming does not simply mean more warm days and fewer cold ones. Warming is uneven, with some regions (like the Arctic) warming faster than others. Additionally, warming of the atmosphere and oceans has a cascading … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geology at AGU 2017

acrawford December 18, 2017 4:32 pm

Three Wooster Geologists (Dr. Karen Alley, Dr. Alex Crawford, and senior Geology major Cole Jimerson) descended on New Orleans last week to attend the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. With 20 to 25 thousand attendees each year, this … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Sponge and clam borings that revealed an ancient climate event (Upper Pleistocene of The Bahamas)

Mark Wilson April 28, 2017 12:01 am

This week’s fossils celebrate the publication today of a paper in Nature Geoscience that has been 20 years in the making. The title is: “Sea-level oscillations during the Last Interglacial highstand recorded by Bahamas coral”, and the senior author is … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists participate in the historic March For Science on Earth Day, 2017

Mark Wilson April 22, 2017 6:25 pm

Wooster, Ohio — It was a chilly day downtown, but several hundred people gathered for the national March For Science. We were one of over 500 local events across the country advocating for science awareness, education and funding. Thank you … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist at Argonne National Laboratory

Mark Wilson July 16, 2016 12:01 am

Editor’s note: The following post is from guest blogger Clara Deck (’17) about her research experience this summer with an internship at one of the world’s most prominent laboratories. She is working on an important climate change project involving the … Continue reading →

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What we learned in Climate Change (Geology 210, Spring 2016)

gwiles May 31, 2016 9:35 am

A dedicated group of geologists, physicists, archaeologists, political scientists, biologists, english and history majors joined forces to learn a bit about Climate Change in the natural laboratory of Northeast Ohio. Here they surround a glacial erratic in Secrest Arboretum of … Continue reading →

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Last Fieldtrip for Climate Change

gwiles November 13, 2014 11:27 am

As the weather cools – the Wooster Geology Climate Change class ventured out in the field one more time. For the remainder of the semester we will try to get some work done. Two sites were visited – the Cedar Creek … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists return to the Cedar Creek Bog and Excavation Site

Mark Wilson October 25, 2014 5:18 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–Greg Wiles and I got to experience a bit of field archaeology today at the Cedar Creek Mastodon excavation site. Greg’s Climate change class has visited the site and its associated bog twice this semester: once to do some … Continue reading →

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Dating Houses and Reconstructing Climate

gwiles September 22, 2014 8:55 pm

The Wooster Geology Climate Change class spent a beautiful fall day in Stony Creek, Ohio coring beams in three structures of historical significance. They will determine the cut dates (calendar dates when the timber for the houses were felled) for … Continue reading →

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Different Views of the Bog

gwiles September 9, 2014 10:15 am

Dr. Anderson describing the moisture gradient measured from the bog to the crest of the kame where the old growth remnant oak forest resides.   Our Climate Change class visited Browns Lake Bog with the Plant Communities and Ecosystems class … Continue reading →

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