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A Blast from the Past: Paleoecology 2025 Visits Cleveland Museum of Natural History

evlyon December 30, 2025 4:15 pm

by Claire Elsie and Allie Toombs, with contributions from other Paleoecology students. On Saturday, November 8th, Dr. Lyon’s paleoecology class visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for inspiration for our own museum project. We explored the exhibits and analyzed … Continue reading →

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A Tradition Continues: Richmond, Indiana – Paleoecology, Fall 2025

evlyon December 12, 2025 3:41 pm

Blog post written by students enrolled in the course, including Madeline Eaton and Lynnsey Delio. On August 30th, Dr. Lyon’s Paleoecology class took a trip down to Richmond, Indiana to collect fossils for their lab project. The class found many … Continue reading →

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Late summer field work in West Virginia (2024 and 2025)

evlyon August 25, 2025 7:08 pm

Coring a lake usually involves… a lake. In this case, Dr. Eva Lyon and colleagues from Ohio University are studying Paleolake Buckeye, which probably last had water in the late Pleistocene, over 15 thousand years ago. To study the paleolake, … Continue reading →

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Better Late than Never: COW Caving Trip, November 2024

evlyon August 18, 2025 5:27 pm

In Fall 2024 Dr. Lyon led a field trip to eastern West Virginia for the Cave Geology class. The class of eight students, with ESCI technician Nick Wiesenberg, explored three different caves and emerged a little bit wetter and muddier … Continue reading →

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