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Paleoecology class at Wooster finishes the semester in great style

Mark Wilson November 30, 2023 4:42 pm

I was very fortunate this semester to have such a fine class of paleoecologists. This course broadly covers the Earth’s ecological history, so it consists of principles, theories and processes illuminated with case studies, all strung along the thread of … Continue reading →

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An Exciting Trip to Tour Unconventional Oil and Gas Wells

Rebecca Matecha November 10, 2023 4:30 pm

This semester’s Geology of Energy Resources course, which focuses on how fossil fuels form, are extracted, and are used, had the opportunity to visit two unconventional oil and gas wells run by Ascent Resources located in southeastern Ohio this week. … Continue reading →

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A delightful little field trip in Ohio with a Polish-American team

Mark Wilson October 23, 2023 10:21 am

Today was astonishingly beautiful in Ohio: bright blue skies and the peak of fall leaf colors. By happy circumstance, I had three Polish paleontologist friends visiting Wooster after the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh last week. Greg … Continue reading →

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Freshwater sponge and diatom team presents at the annual Geological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh

Mark Wilson October 18, 2023 10:45 pm

This summer Garrett Robertson and Minnie Pozefsky performed superb research on the sponges and diatoms in a core from Brown’s Lake near Shreve, Ohio. Their project is summarized here. Today Garrett presented their work, along with others on the NSF-funded … Continue reading →

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The distinguished paleontologist Dr. Julia Clarke visits Wooster’s Earth Sciences department.

Mark Wilson October 13, 2023 11:54 am

The distinguished paleontologist Dr. Julia Clarke visited our Paleoecology lab in Wooster yesterday. She was there as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. She was wonderful with her several fascinating talks and many interactions with our students. Everybody is happy … Continue reading →

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Work continues on our Ordovician paleoecology project

Mark Wilson October 11, 2023 3:38 pm

The Fall 2023 Paleoecology class is continuing to work on its Upper Ordovician fossil collections from our field trip at the beginning of the semester. Part of the class is shown above sorting their specimens and identifying them as precisely … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist visits Fallingwater, southwestern Pennsylvania

Mark Wilson October 1, 2023 7:29 pm

While on our short Fall Break vacation in Pennsylvania, my wife, daughter and I visited the iconic Fallingwater. It must be one of the best known family houses short of Windsor Castle. Fallingwater is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist at Fort Ligonier, Pennsylvania: Choosing your ground geologically

Mark Wilson September 30, 2023 8:24 pm

This afternoon, the first day of Fall Break at The College of Wooster, my family began a weekend excursion to southern Pennsylvania — our first vacation since the pandemic. We first visited one of my favorite reconstructed frontier outposts: Fort … Continue reading →

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A lovely day to visit the Ordovician seas of Indiana

Mark Wilson August 20, 2023 8:06 pm

This year’s Paleoecology class field trip was to a familiar place: a roadcut outside Richmond, Indiana, exposing the Whitewater Formation in the gorgeous Upper Ordovician System. We call it the catchy name “C/W-148” (N 39.78722°, W 84.90166°). It was a … Continue reading →

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Alaska Collaboration, Ongoing and Future Projects

gwiles August 13, 2023 10:07 pm

In addition to the summer work described by Lilly Hinkley and Tyrell Cooper, the Wooster Tree Ring Lab is collaborating projects with (1) The Tree Ring Lab of the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. This work is part of a … Continue reading →

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