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Wooster Geologists in northern Virginia on a great summer day

Mark Wilson September 6, 2025 11:21 am

Alexandria, Virginia.– Today Wooster Geologists Greg Wiles and Nick Wiesenberg visited Gloria and me in our new home in northern Virginia. It was great to see treasured old friends from the department. After lunch we visited a tree in our … Continue reading →

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Late summer field work in West Virginia (2024 and 2025)

evlyon August 25, 2025 7:08 pm

Coring a lake usually involves… a lake. In this case, Dr. Eva Lyon and colleagues from Ohio University are studying Paleolake Buckeye, which probably last had water in the late Pleistocene, over 15 thousand years ago. To study the paleolake, … Continue reading →

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Better Late than Never: COW Caving Trip, November 2024

evlyon August 18, 2025 5:27 pm

In Fall 2024 Dr. Lyon led a field trip to eastern West Virginia for the Cave Geology class. The class of eight students, with ESCI technician Nick Wiesenberg, explored three different caves and emerged a little bit wetter and muddier … Continue reading →

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Juneau Recap (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 23, 2025 8:46 am

Guest Blogger Keck SEAK25: We bookended our time in Alaska with hiking, tree coring, and fish consumption in Juneau. Starting off strong with a hike to see Herbert Glacier. We were lucky enough to stay at the University of Alaska … Continue reading →

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Angoon Day 3 – Pt. 2: The Climb (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 23, 2025 8:41 am

Guest Bloggers SEAK2025: On our final day in Angoon, half of the team took a boat across the bay to Hood Bay Mountain, where our goal was to find suitable mountain hemlocks to add to our chronology. Mountain hemlocks typically … Continue reading →

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Angoon Day 3 – Pt. 1: Turn Point (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 22, 2025 4:08 pm

Guest Bloggers – SEAK25: On the third and final day in Angoon, we split into two groups. One climbed Hood Bay Mountain to extract high-elevation mountain hemlock cores, the other kayaked to Turn Point, searching for and coring culturally modified … Continue reading →

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Angoon – Day 2 (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 22, 2025 4:00 pm

Guest bloggers SEAK2025: We began Day 2 at Angoon High School, learning about student research focused on the preservation of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs). A CMT is any tree that has been modified by indigenous people for cultural or practical … Continue reading →

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Angoon – Day 1 (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 22, 2025 3:44 pm

Guest bloggers – SEAK25: The SEAK Team traveled to Juneau Alaska from Wooster where they had been learning the basic of tree-ring dating and dendroclimatic analyses, After spending a couple days in Juneau, our Keck SEAK 2025 Team took a … Continue reading →

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Annual Report 2025 – Earth Sciences

gwiles July 21, 2025 12:59 pm

Special thanks to Nat McCoy and Dr. Pollock for their hard work on the Earth Sciences 2024-2025 Annual Report. You can access the report through this link.

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Keck (SEAK25) Week 2: Dendrochronological Methods

gwiles July 7, 2025 2:10 pm

Guest Bloggers SEAK25 (Keck – Southeast Alaska 2025) – Dendrochronological methods are a key part to our research team’s success. While analyzing and drawing conclusions from data is essential, it is equally as important to ensure the proper collection, preparation, … Continue reading →

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