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Russian Birch Climate Reconstruction

gwiles June 9, 2015 9:10 am

Guest blogger – Dan Misinay During the summer of 2014 Dr. Wiles and I.S. student Sarah Fredrick traveled to Kamchatka, Russia. While there, they cored hundreds of birch (Bertula ermanii) and larch (Larix gmelinii) trees to bring back to the … Continue reading →

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Geomorphology at Fern Valley and along the Little Killbuck

gwiles April 12, 2015 7:25 am

The group at Fern Valley. Gaging Wilkin Run and measuring water levels in wells. We are fortunate to be able to monitor the streamflow, climate and geomorphic changes along Wilkin Run. Thanks again to Betty and David Wilkin for donating … Continue reading →

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Days Three and Four – Mojave 2015

gwiles March 11, 2015 11:14 pm

Day three was spent examining the sedimentology, structure and paleontology, and a bit of the wildlife biology at Owl Canyon. We even stopped at the Payless Shoestore in nearby Barstow (Dr. Wilson’s hometown). The wildlife was the desert tortoise. The … Continue reading →

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The First Two Days in the Mojave

gwiles March 10, 2015 6:17 am

  Nine students and five faculty and staff are part of Desert Geology 2015, a week-long fieldtrip to the Mojave Desert. Here the nine students, joined by Cam Matesich (Wooster ’14) gathered at an overlook of Death Valley (Dante’s View). Cam … Continue reading →

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Three Days on Ice

gwiles January 25, 2015 7:44 pm

Dr. Lowell and a crew from the University of Cincinnati spent thee days with us on the ice at Browns Lake Bog. The objectives were to take a series of long cores from the ice platform at the bog and, … 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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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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Extracting High Quality Mud from Cedar Creek Bog

gwiles September 7, 2014 7:03 pm

Tom Lowell and graduate student Stephanie Allard from Cincinnati and Jacklyn Rodriguez from the University of Illinois made the trip to Morrow County to core mud from a bog adjacent to the Cedar Creek Mastodon site. We will be working with … Continue reading →

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BUGGY, WET, and AWESOME

gwiles September 4, 2014 2:02 pm

Guest bloggers: Zach Downes & Wilson Nelson For me, the trip started in Juneau, Alaska.  We arrived in Juneau late with a couple of things to take care of the next day before getting in a small plane and heading … Continue reading →

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