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Wooster Geology Majors Help with B-WISER

sjudge June 21, 2011 11:22 am

The College’s of Wooster’s B-WISER (Buckeye Women In Science, Engineering, and Research) program for 7th and 8th grade girls descended upon Scovel Hall last week for some fun activities in geology. In an afternoon session with the campers, we divided … Continue reading →

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Finishing our Tour of Yellowstone

sjudge August 20, 2010 11:23 am

After hiking through the Tetons, we continued our tour of Yellowstone by visiting a number of places in the eastern and northern portions of the park. We visited Signal Mountain Summit, which is a great overlook of the glacial outwash … Continue reading →

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Hiking in the Tetons

sjudge August 20, 2010 11:00 am

Due to such great weather, the group decided to go for a 9.6 mile hike (4.8 miles up and up and up and then back down again). We hiked the Lupine Meadows Trail NNW of Moose, Wyoming — in Grand … Continue reading →

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From Bozeman to Yellowstone to Jackson Hole

sjudge August 20, 2010 10:45 am

The Teaching in the Field Workshop left Bozeman for a whirlwind tour of Yellowstone and the Tetons. Our goal was to actually think about teaching in the field — while in the field!! Some of us concentrated on how we … Continue reading →

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Palisade Falls in Hyalite Canyon, Montana

sjudge August 16, 2010 11:24 pm

Today, we ended the indoor classroom portion of the Teaching in the Field Workshop with a lively discussion on the use of technology in the field. Everyone seemed to agree about its usefulness in research; however, there were many different … Continue reading →

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Summer coming to an end…

sjudge August 16, 2010 10:45 pm

Guest Blogger: Jesse Davenport Dear Meagen and Shelley, I hope you both like extremely sheared metamorphic and igneous 2 billion year old rocks because I have about 100 of them coming to Scovel in about a week. But really I … Continue reading →

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Sacagawea Peak in the Bridger Range

sjudge August 15, 2010 11:38 pm

The entire group at the On the Cutting Edge Workshop (Teaching Geoscience in the Field) spent a few hours in the field talking about various teaching strategies. Our field site for this exercise was the Bridger Range, and we climbed … Continue reading →

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Another Wooster Geologist in Montana

sjudge August 15, 2010 11:17 pm

In an earlier blog, Jesse Davenport (2011) described some of this experiences this summer while working on his Keck project in Montana. Jesse is still in SW Montana, although his official last day in the field is August 16. He … Continue reading →

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Now I know why they call it Big Sky country…

sjudge August 9, 2010 11:18 pm

Guest Blogger: Jesse Davenport That is, when you look outside all you see is sky for miles upon miles upon miles upon…well you get the picture. It is extremely beautiful here. In Island Park, Idaho, we are sitting right on … Continue reading →

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Geysers, Mountains, and Dinosaurs…OH MY! (Subtitle: This Summer is Stromato-Tight)

sjudge July 16, 2010 9:42 pm

Guest Blogger: Elizabeth Deering This summer I have been given many amazing opportunities starting with my employment at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Since late May I have been working with 7 other summer staff members giving tours, … Continue reading →

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