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Wooster Geologists begin a new semester

Mark Wilson January 28, 2022 9:20 am

We all hope this is our last pandemic semester. The College of Wooster began all its courses remotely for the first week of the semester, a format we are all very familiar with by now. In the second week we … Continue reading →

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A new book chapter for a new year: Evolutionary history of colonial organisms as hosts and parasites

Mark Wilson January 1, 2022 2:02 pm

My Estonian colleague and friend Olev Vinn and I have a chapter in the new book The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism. Ours is chapter four on the evolutionary history of colonial organisms as hosts and parasites. One of … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Department of Earth Sciences 2020-2021 Annual Report!

Mark Wilson December 3, 2021 2:58 pm

Our Administrative Coordinator Patrice Reeder has assembled another magnificent annual report for our department. Once again the Covid Pandemic made this task all the more complex. The cover shows one of our remote courses during the eventful year. We’re back … Continue reading →

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Petroleum Experts Ltd. Donates MOVE Suite to Wooster Earth Sciences Once Again

sjudge November 29, 2021 12:52 pm

Wooster, Ohio — The Department of Earth Sciences again 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 marks the fourth year … Continue reading →

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On encountering a nest of fraudulent geology papers

Mark Wilson November 15, 2021 12:46 pm

This is a different kind of post! This semester I stumbled into an enormous collection of phony research papers published in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. I became fascinated with the brazen nature of this fraud, and its large scale. … Continue reading →

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New paper: Introducing the taphonomic process of ooimmuration

Mark Wilson November 1, 2021 12:10 am

I’m pleased to announce the publication of an article describing how fossils can be preserved within carbonate ooids, and what the implications are for this new aspect of taphonomy (the study of fossil preservation) we call ooimmuration. The team of … Continue reading →

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Cambrian bryozoans? Not yet! [Update in October 2021: Now there ARE Cambrian bryozoans!]

Mark Wilson October 27, 2021 7:35 pm

Editor’s Note: The post below was written in December 2012 about a purported bryozoan found in Cambrian rocks. This would have been a major find because bryozoans, a major fossilized phylum, were notably missing from the Cambrian record, despite molecular … Continue reading →

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Two Wooster Geologists Honored Today

Mark Wilson October 7, 2021 8:44 pm

It is inspiring to see two Wooster Geologists in the news today for national honors! Professor Shelley Judge has been named as this year’s NCAA Div. III Faculty Athletics Representative of the Year by the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association. Read … Continue reading →

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Remote Summer Sampling in Southeast Alaska

gwiles August 20, 2021 7:08 pm

  We had the good fortune to work (remotely) with four TRAYLS groups in Alaska. The TRAYLS (Training Rural Alaskan Youth Leaders & Students) Groups from Southeast Alaska teamed up with Earth Scientist students  Ricky Papay (’22), Wenshuo Zhao (‘23) and Lucie Fiala (‘23) … Continue reading →

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Wolf Lake and the Surrounding Landscape, Glacier Bay, Alaska

gwiles August 12, 2021 10:34 am

Members of the Wooster Tree Ring Lab had a great opportunity to travel to a seldom-visited part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve – a transect from Wolf Lake to Burroughs Glacier. We were there because there is 2500 … Continue reading →

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