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Author Archives: mpollock
Barbecue, Baseball, and Bluegrass
Chapel Hill, NC – Whenever we visit a field site or external lab for research, we see it as an opportunity to explore the local culture, in true liberal arts fashion. Our recent visit to UNC Chapel Hill’s Isotope Lab … Continue reading
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Tagged barbecue, baseball, bluegrass, Chapel Hill, culture, UNC
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Isotope analysis by TIMS is FUN
Chapel Hill, NC – Wooster Geologists have been hard at work preparing samples for isotope analysis. Now that sample preparation is complete, the next step is to analyze them on the thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS). In the TIMS, a sample … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, BC, British Columbia, Chapel Hill, isotope, Nd, Pb, pillow lava, Sr, subglacial, UNC, undergraduate research
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An evening with Hutton, Lyell, and Darwin at the Davison Rare Book Room
Middletown, CT – The Wooster Geologists at the Keck Consortium were treated to a visit to the Davison Rare Book Room. The Special Collections Librarian set out an impressive array of historical texts with geological significance. We were even permitted to touch the books … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwin, Geologia, Hutton, Lyell, Special Collections and Archives, Wesleyan University
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Extracting a single element from a rock
Chapel Hill, NC – As you know, Ben Kumpf (’18) and I are working in the Isotope Geochemistry lab at UNC Chapel Hill. We are measuring isotopes of strontium (Sr), lead (Pb) and neodymium (Nd) in basaltic pillow lavas from northern … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, British Columbia, geochemistry, isotope, Nd, Pb, pillow lava, Sr, UNC Chapel Hill, undergraduate research
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What is a clean lab?
Chapel Hill, NC – Ben Kumpf (’18) and I are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to use their lab facilities for isotope analysis. We’re working with small amounts of sample and the instrument has a high degree of … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, BC, British Columbia, clean lab, isotope, pillow lava, subglacial, UNC Chapel Hill, undergraduate research
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Let the summer research commence!
Chapel Hill, NC – As the College of Wooster Commencement ceremony was just finishing, our rising seniors were starting their summer research. Ben Kumpf (’18) and I are visiting the labs in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of North … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, British Columbia, isotope, Nd, Pb, pillow lava, Sr, UNC Chapel Hill, undergraduate research
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The 30th Annual Keck Symposium and the Importance of Presentation in the Undergraduate Research Experience
Middletown, CT – Wesleyan University recently hosted the 30th annual Keck Symposium. The Keck Symposium is one of the key features that separates Keck projects from other types of undergraduate research experiences. Most other REU programs are confined to the summer, but … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, glaciovolcanic, Iceland, Keck, Keck Geology Consortium, oral, pillow lava, poster, presentation, REU, subglacial, undergraduate research
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Expanding Horizons by Mapping the Seafloor
Wooster, OH – Last weekend, The College of Wooster hosted the Expanding Your Horizons conference. About 240 fifth- and sixth-grade girls participated in hands-on science workshops on computer science, math, geology, chemistry, biology, physics, and neuroscience. This year, I went back to my roots … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin, basalt, Expanding your horizons, lava, mapping, outreach, seafloor, sonar
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How thick was the ice?
AMHERST, MA – Our Keck project studying the construction of a glaciovolcanic ridge in southwest Iceland is in full swing and our students are hard at work on their research. You may remember that we traveled to Iceland this summer to … Continue reading
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Tagged amherst, degassing, FTIR, glaciovolcanic, H2O, Iceland, Keck, pillow, pillow lava, probe, ridge, tindar, UMass
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Last Wooster Geologist Presentation at #GSA2016
Denver, CO – The honor of the last presentation at #GSA2016 goes to Amineh AlBashaireh (’18), who has a poster on her summer work at Black Mountain in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Wooster Geologists, on another successful GSA meeting!