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Investigation of a Ring Width Yellow Cedar (Cupressus nootkatensis) Series as a Record of Coolings Associated with Volcanic Eruptions

gwiles June 7, 2025 4:10 pm

Figure 1. Title page of Amanda’s thesis including one of the key figures. Amanda Flory (class of 2025) completed a thesis that investigated the interplay between the pace of the ocean-atmosphere climate in the Northeast Pacific that is dominated by … Continue reading →

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Browns Lake Study by Grace Neuman

gwiles May 15, 2025 11:30 am

Guest Blogger Grace Neuman: From mossy bogs to forgotten fields, the landscape of Northeastern Ohio holds buried stories. My Independent study, examines how two centuries of post-settlement human activity have altered the region’s ecosystems, and how we can still see … Continue reading →

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New Survey of Biomarkers in Lakes Across A Large Swath of North America

gwiles May 4, 2025 10:21 am

The link to the full publication and supporting data can be found here. HBI Wizard, Aaron Diefendorf (University of Cincinnati) on the forest edge of Browns Lake, Wayne County Ohio. Dr. Diefendorf and Dr. T.V. Lowell and their students (Dietrich, … Continue reading →

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New Publication from the Wooster Tree Ring Lab

gwiles April 26, 2025 10:31 am

The lead author of this work, Fred (Wenshuo) Zhao, photographed in front of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. The logs at his feet, recently exposed by the retreating ice, are the subject of his undergraduate thesis and this publication. … Continue reading →

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From Glacial Lake Craigton to Browns Lake Bog

gwiles April 20, 2025 9:46 am

Last Monday there was a power outage on campus and classes were cancelled, despite this news our afternoon lab period fieldtrip went on as planned. The trip consisted of a field trip led by Nigel Brush (retired from Ashland U. … Continue reading →

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New Paper on Oaks in Ohio – A Nostalgia Tour

gwiles April 12, 2025 11:04 pm

The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab faculty, staff and students have teamed up to publish results of  an analysis of a network of tree-ring sites in Northeast Ohio to ask the question what is driving the changing climate response … Continue reading →

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GSA – Erie 2025

gwiles March 31, 2025 8:48 pm

Wooster Earth Scientists traveled to Erie PA to attend the joint Northeast /North-Central Geological Society of America for a weekend of geology talks, posters and fieldtrips.   Proto here describes the winter signal that they discovered in the tree-ring record … Continue reading →

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Coring Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler)

gwiles March 15, 2025 9:41 pm

Wooster Memorial Park has been a great resource for The College of Wooster Earth Sciences (ESCI), Biology among others. Here the ESCI course in Paleoclimate, under permit from the Friends of Wooster Memorial Park, sampled 20 second growth Eastern Hemlock … Continue reading →

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Browns Lake Bog Revisited – PACLIM25

gwiles March 15, 2025 1:28 pm

Paleoclimate 2025 (PACLIM25) is a class in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster. A goal of the course is to learn about past climates, their relevance to future climates, and to have the class contribute to … Continue reading →

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Tree Ring Dating of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, South Point, Ohio

gwiles February 22, 2025 8:18 pm

The Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1849 and is Ohio’s first Black church and the only surviving antebellum Black church in the state of Ohio. The building is now being restored under the direction of Hardlines Design, Columbus Ohio. … Continue reading →

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