Author Archives: gwiles

Great to see that The College of Wooster Earth Sciences Annual Report is now out. Thanks to Nat McCoy (ESCI Administrative Coordinator) and Dr. Meagen Pollock (ESCI Chair) for their hard work in assembling this record of all the activities … Continue reading →

A couple of dudes on Dude Mountain Guest bloggers – Cheyenne Wentz and Anika Knowles: Day 1 (June 23rd): We arrived in Ketchikan and took the ferry across the fjord from the airport to Revillagigedo Island (where the town of … Continue reading →

Advised by: Dr. Wiles Abstract: Reconstructing and understanding historical lake levels provides information about how climate influences lake level fluctuations, which is important for managing Lake Michigan- Huron’s (MH) coasts. This study reconstructs historical MH lake levels using ten ring-width … Continue reading →

Mary Palmieri’s senior IS was one of the first attempts at using tree-rings to reconstruct cloud cover. A double major in Earth Sciences and Statistical and Data Sciences, Mary was advised by Drs. Wiles and Pasteur. Abstract: The climate of the … Continue reading →

It was a honor to welcome Dr. Nicolás Young (’05) back to the College to be our 44th Osgood Speaker. Dr. Young hails from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s Cosmo Lab, where he is a Associate Research Scientist. Nicolás is a … Continue reading →

Dr. Mark Abbott and his graduate students Cole and Adeel visited the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with portions of white oak beams from a historic cabin in Pittsburgh. The mission was to tree ring date the outer ring of the … Continue reading →

Dr. Lyon’s class along with her TAs and in collaboration with the Wooster Art Museum’s director Dr. Marianne Wardle, significantly upgraded many of the fossil and mineral displays in Scovel Hall this past fall. The classes hard work was revealed … Continue reading →

Imagine a world with larch trees in the uplands and dawn redwoods in the flats, and bald cypress trees in the wetlands. This existed in the Eocene (~40 million years ago) when the world was warmer, the treeline was at … Continue reading →

Nigel Brush and colleagues have assembled a record of human history in the Walhonding Valley of Ohio (see map below). Along with Jeffrey Dilyard and others, Brush has worked in the region for decades  examining the history of human occupation … Continue reading →