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Minerals Outreach – Cornerstone Elementary

Geology Club members Lashawna, Kelly, Bridget and Phil worked with two third grade classes at Cornerstone Elementary School to sharpen up the students mineral and rock identification skills. Mrs. Gaut goes over the ground rules for the mineral and rock … Continue reading

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Environmental Geology Fieldtrip – Soils/Geologic History and Groundwater

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Processing the Lake Core (and Tree Cores)

Earlier posts from the Climate Change class showed the students coring trees and a lake for the various analysis described below. The goals are to examine climate in Ohio since the last Ice Age as recorded in lake sediments and … Continue reading

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Coring Round Lake – A Record of Post Glacial Change

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Climate Change Class at Secrest Arboretum

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A Day on Pleasant Island

The Woo crew in front of one of the larger cedars we found. Today we took a skiff over to Pleasant Island to core some older cedars. Our guide and captain for the day was Wayne, an archeologist in the … Continue reading

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Cedar Adventure to Excursion Ridge

Kelly and Colin standing on one of the lower ridges near Excursion Ridge. Today we hiked up Excursion Ridge to collect yellow-cedar samples for Colin’s I.S. On the trek up to the cedar stand, we hiked up the road and … Continue reading

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News from the North

After arriving in Juneau, we went on a quick tour of the town before grabbing a bite to eat and setting up camp across the lake from Mendenhall Glacier. A constant misting rain provided a fitting welcome to Alaska. The … Continue reading

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Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle

Wooster geologists Terry Workman and Greg Wiles are joined by Alena Giesche (Middlebury College), Jessa Moser and Tom Lowell (U. Cincinnati) on Alaska’ Kenai Peninsula undertaking paleoclimate research. We are coring lakes in collaboration with The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge … Continue reading

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Tree Ring Dating of Revolutionary War (and some later) Buildings in PA and OH

This summer the Wooster Tree Ring Lab is funded by the College of Wooster’s Center for Entrepreneurship to date buildings of historical interest using tree rings. The crew in this endeavor is shown above and includes – Dr. Greg Wiles, … Continue reading

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