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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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Apple Creek & Trout Unlimited

gwiles June 25, 2021 8:19 am

Guest bloggers: Chamari Abercrombie and Ellen Yoon. Good evening Wooster community, today the AMRE Water Team visited Apple Creek with Trout Unlimited to analyze the water quality of Apple Creek. To do so, we looked at macroinvertebrates and collected data … Continue reading →

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Wooster fieldwork resumes at Brown’s Lake Bog on a gorgeous day

Mark Wilson June 17, 2021 2:38 pm

Wayne County, Ohio — It was a perfect day for Wooster Geologists to do some aquatic fieldwork. It was my first day of fieldwork since March 2020 in Utah. This time I wasn’t doing much actual work, though — I … Continue reading →

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Laboratory microphotography in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster (Part 2)

Mark Wilson June 7, 2021 9:25 am

This is the third in a series on laboratory photography in the Department of Earth Sciences at Wooster. In a comment on a Fossil of the Week post last month, Wooster Geologist Alumnus Dr. Bill Reinthal asked if I could … Continue reading →

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Laboratory microphotography in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster (Part 1)

Mark Wilson June 6, 2021 12:02 am

In a comment on a Fossil of the Week post last month, Wooster Geologist Alumnus Dr. Bill Reinthal asked if I could describe how we do our lab photography in the Earth Sciences department. I started what will be a … Continue reading →

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Laboratory macrophotography in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster

Mark Wilson June 3, 2021 12:29 pm

In a comment on a Fossil of the Week post last month, Wooster Geologist Alumnus Dr. Bill Reinthal suggested I describe the processes I use to create images of rocks and fossils for this blog, publications and other outlets. This … Continue reading →

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A diatom study begins at Wooster

Mark Wilson June 1, 2021 6:40 pm

This happy Wooster Geologist is Justine Paul Berina (’22). He and I have started a project with diatoms found in mud cores taken from Brown’s Lake and Brown’s Lake Bog by Dr. Greg Wiles, Nick Weisenberg, various crews from the … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Giant Pliocene scallop from Virginia with bonus sclerobionts

Mark Wilson May 30, 2021 3:31 pm

Yes, the feature “Wooster’s Fossil of the Week” was retired long ago (all entries still available on this blog), but occasionally I will still cover interesting fossils we come across in the lab or field. The title is now a … Continue reading →

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Milestones for two Wooster Geologists

Mark Wilson May 26, 2021 5:43 pm

There was some good news for the College of Wooster Earth Sciences faculty during the otherwise dreary Pandemic Year. The two cheerful Wooster geologists pictured above in the field (today!) reached important points in their professional lives. Dr. Meagen Pollock … Continue reading →

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