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Coring Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler)

gwiles March 15, 2025 9:41 pm

Wooster Memorial Park has been a great resource for The College of Wooster Earth Sciences (ESCI), Biology among others. Here the ESCI course in Paleoclimate, under permit from the Friends of Wooster Memorial Park, sampled 20 second growth Eastern Hemlock … Continue reading →

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Browns Lake Bog Revisited – PACLIM25

gwiles March 15, 2025 1:28 pm

Paleoclimate 2025 (PACLIM25) is a class in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster. A goal of the course is to learn about past climates, their relevance to future climates, and to have the class contribute to … Continue reading →

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Tree Ring Dating of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, South Point, Ohio

gwiles February 22, 2025 8:18 pm

The Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1849 and is Ohio’s first Black church and the only surviving antebellum Black church in the state of Ohio. The building is now being restored under the direction of Hardlines Design, Columbus Ohio. … Continue reading →

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Trip to Byrd Polar Ice Core Lab

gwiles February 13, 2025 2:43 pm

The College of Wooster Paleoclimate Class was fortunate to visit, Dr. Lonnie Thompson, director and founder of the Byrd Polar Ice Core Lab during lab. Here Dr. Thompson give the class the rundown of all the “firsts” in tropical and … Continue reading →

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A new paper on a tiny cryptic trace fossil from the Silurian of Sweden and Estonia

Mark Wilson January 18, 2025 1:30 am

One of my favorite trace fossils (fossils that record ancient behavior) is the ichnogenus Arachnostega. It was first formally described and named by Bertling in 1992, which is surprisingly recent for such a common fossil. This week my Estonian colleagues … Continue reading →

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New Paper on Climate Change Published By Wooster Geology Professor – Eva Lyon

gwiles January 7, 2025 2:14 pm

Dr. Eva Lyon ((photo above on June Lake, CA) Wooster Earth Sciences Professor and Wooster Alum.) has recently published her work “A high-resolution record of Late Holocene drought in the eastern Sierra Nevada (California, USA) from June Lake carbonate geochemistry” … Continue reading →

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Rittman Lake and the Overrunning Sequence

gwiles December 6, 2024 10:01 am

The group posing in front of some generations of draglines at the Zollinger Pit in Rittman. Many thanks to the operators for giving us permission to spend a spectacular afternoon at the site. Figure 1. Map showing some the the … Continue reading →

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A Delta in the Little Killbuck Valley (Wooster Memorial Park)

gwiles December 5, 2024 4:31 pm

The Geomorphology (GEOM24) class posing along the Little Killbuck River Valley. Looming in the background is the delta built into Lake Killbuck during immediate post-glacial times about 14,000 years ago. The sediments are so well exposed, in part, due to … Continue reading →

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Geomorphology (GEOM24) – Soils on the Golf Course

gwiles December 4, 2024 4:38 pm

The group gearing up to describe and map soils in the old growth stand just east of the College Golf Course. Guest bloggers: Lynnsey, Cate, Evie, Chanel, Lilly and Amanda   Figure 1. Diagram showing the formation of the glacial … Continue reading →

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Geomorphology (GEM24) Part 3 – Browns Lake for Soils

gwiles December 4, 2024 3:55 pm

Guest bloggers: Grace, Hayden, Vince and Ethan The group working with soils at Browns Lake Bog Preserve. The goal was the dig three soils pits and examine the soil catena from the top of a kame to the base controlling … Continue reading →

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