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It was again my privilege to join my Estonian colleagues on a paper (published today in Palaeoworld) describing sclerobionts (hard-substrate dwelling organisms) from the Lower Paleozoic. This time we record the earliest species of the problematic genus Allonema, finding them … Continue reading →

It was a honor to welcome Dr. Nicolás Young (’05) back to the College to be our 44th Osgood Speaker. Dr. Young hails from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s Cosmo Lab, where he is a Associate Research Scientist. Nicolás is a … Continue reading →

Dr. Mark Abbott and his graduate students Cole and Adeel visited the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with portions of white oak beams from a historic cabin in Pittsburgh. The mission was to tree ring date the outer ring of the … Continue reading →

It was my privilege to join an Estonian-Polish-Chinese-American team interpreting partial soft-tissue preservation of the feeding devices of Silurian cornulitids, which are extinct Paleozoic organisms that constructed small conical, ribbed tubes. Cornulitids are very common sclerobionts (hard-substrate dwellers) in the … Continue reading →

Dr. Lyon’s class along with her TAs and in collaboration with the Wooster Art Museum’s director Dr. Marianne Wardle, significantly upgraded many of the fossil and mineral displays in Scovel Hall this past fall. The classes hard work was revealed … Continue reading →

Imagine a world with larch trees in the uplands and dawn redwoods in the flats, and bald cypress trees in the wetlands. This existed in the Eocene (~40 million years ago) when the world was warmer, the treeline was at … Continue reading →