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Coring Odell Lake

gwiles July 9, 2010 10:43 am

The dedicated team of Wooster Geologists, Sarah Appleton, Stephanie Jarvis, and Dr. Greg Wiles met up with the sleep deprived team of Geologists from The University of Cincinnati, Bill Honsaker, Gianna Evans, and Dr. Tom Lowell. The goal of day … Continue reading →

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Scene from the lab

mwilson July 8, 2010 4:43 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–I spent a good part of the day in the paleontology lab of Lisa Park, one of our accomplished Wooster Geology alumni who teaches at the University of Akron.  We took scanning electron microscope images of microconchid specimens I … Continue reading →

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B-WISER

mpollock June 26, 2010 1:20 pm

Campers from the Buckeye Women in Science, Engineering, and Research (B-WISER) science camp visited the Geology Department last Thursday to study the role of lava viscosity in volcanic eruptions. We used corn syrup as our ‘lava’ and experimented with ways … Continue reading →

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The Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Research

mpollock June 21, 2010 1:56 am

To celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the CUR Geosciences Division, our session today started with a lively discussion of what undergraduate research was like 25 years ago. It seems that Princeton had a robust undergraduate research program, but at … Continue reading →

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CUR 2010

mpollock June 19, 2010 11:17 pm

I’m at the 2010 National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research at Weber State in Ogden, Utah. Tonight, the conference kicked off with a talk by Dr. Robert Full (University of California, Berkeley) on “The Value of Interdisciplinary Research-based … Continue reading →

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Safely in the Tel Aviv airport and all’s well

mwilson June 16, 2010 4:03 am

BEN GURION AIRPORT, ISRAEL — It is always a special moment when the rental car is successfully returned (surprisingly undamaged), the luggage with its curious bags of rocks is checked through (“Why do you need to have numbers on all … Continue reading →

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A splash into the Jurassic on our last Negev field day

mwilson June 15, 2010 8:04 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL — Today we traveled northeast of Mitzpe Ramon to Makhtesh Gadol (“The Large Crater”) to look at some Jurassic fossils in the Matmor Formation.  I had to take a few photographs and collect some cool crinoids there, … Continue reading →

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Thraspberry Thrashing

gwiles June 14, 2010 1:01 pm

guest blogger: Stephanie It’s been a full week! On Monday, Justin (the captain) and Tom (captain of another boat who Justin was training for the Capelin) took all of us around to climate stations Dan maintains throughout the park to … Continue reading →

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Last Field Day in the Cretaceous of the Negev

mwilson June 14, 2010 9:37 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL — We spent our last Cretaceous field day in our section of the Zihor and Menuha Formations just south of Makhtesh Ramon.  It is a complicated place because of tectonic activity from the Late Cretaceous on, so … Continue reading →

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An igneous rock for Dr. Pollock

mwilson June 13, 2010 8:56 am
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