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Petroleum Experts Ltd. Donates MOVE Suite to Wooster Once Again!!

sjudge March 6, 2020 11:39 am

Wooster, Ohio — The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce that Petroleum Experts Ltd. recently donated ten licenses of their MOVE suite software package to be used for educational and training purposes.  This is the second year in … Continue reading →

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New Paper: Synoptic Climatology of Rain-on-Snow Events in Alaska

acrawford March 5, 2020 10:30 am

Back in 2018, some internal sophomore research funding through the College of Wooster allowed me to hire Anna Cooke (’20) to begin an investigation into rain-on-snow events in Alaska. Rain-on-snow is exactly what it sounds like: rain falling on top of … Continue reading →

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New paper: “Chemical composition of carbonate hardground cements as reconstructive tools for Phanerozoic pore fluids”

Mark Wilson February 21, 2020 4:07 pm

My friend Paul Taylor and I are junior authors on a paper that has just appeared in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (“G-Cubed”) as an in press accepted manuscript. We’ll be the first to admit that it is a bit … Continue reading →

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Posts from Antarctica: The Season in Numbers

kalley January 27, 2020 7:02 am

Greetings from McMurdo once again! After many delays and a lot of worry about whether we’d have time to complete our science goals, we have returned with lots of great data and plans for future work. If the weather holds, … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Record High

acrawford January 13, 2020 10:07 pm

Like several towns and cities in the midwest and northeast USA, Wooster, OH broke its daily high temperature record for January 11 last Saturday. Below is a graph of some of the data (made a little prettier in powerpoint) from … Continue reading →

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Posts from Antarctica: Logistics Update and Local History

kalley December 10, 2019 10:35 pm

Hello to you all from… still McMurdo. While we’re all frustrated to still be playing the waiting game, a ray of hope appeared last night – a plane flew from McMurdo to WAIS Divide, for the first time in over … Continue reading →

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A course in nonsense

Mark Wilson December 6, 2019 12:09 pm

For many years I’ve offered a First-Year Seminar at Wooster entitled, “Nonsense! (And Why It’s So Popular)”. Today we finished the latest version of the course. The semester went so well I want to celebrate. The class of first-year students … Continue reading →

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Posts from Antarctica: The Ross Island Trail System

kalley December 5, 2019 5:54 pm

Another day, another cancelled flight – the advance team is now hoping to get out tomorrow, December 7th. Erin said she was once delayed 3.5 weeks in McMurdo due to weather; we’re crossing our fingers that our delay is much … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s First Paleoecology Course

Mark Wilson December 5, 2019 11:44 am

This semester we introduced a new course into the Earth Sciences curriculum: Paleoecology (ESCI 215). It is the first new course I’ve developed in many years. It is designed to introduce students to ecological concepts and principles using the fossil … Continue reading →

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Posts from Antarctica: Life at McMurdo Station

kalley December 3, 2019 4:27 am

The latest update is that our advance team is delayed another day, and weather at WAIS Divide is looking iffy for another few days. That makes it fairly likely that the rest of our team could be pushed into next … Continue reading →

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