Tag Archives: dendrochronology

Coring Trees and Flying over Seas, Hoonah, Alaska 2023

gwiles July 18, 2023 3:41 pm

Guest Bloggers: Lilly Hinkley and Tyrell Cooper Tyrell, Lilly, Nick and Dr. Wiles of Wooster’s Tree Ring Lab (WTRL) were in Juneau and Hoonah, Alaska working in collaboration with the Alaskan Youth Stewards (AYS) in order to extend our tree … Continue reading →

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Concluding 2018 summer research in the Tree Ring Lab

gwiles July 27, 2018 11:41 am

Summer 2018 research in the Tree Ring Lab has come to a close. The group of five students worked on a variety of projects, learning about the climate and history of Ohio and Alaska, and the application of different dendrochronological … Continue reading →

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Russian Birch Climate Reconstruction- Part 2

gwiles June 12, 2015 3:59 pm

Guest blogger- Clara Deck This summer, I am working with Dan Misinay to continue a dendrochronology project focused on Kamchatka, Russia. We have been working with birch tree cores (Bertula ermanii) collected from the region by Dr. Wiles and I.S. … Continue reading →

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Dating Houses and Reconstructing Climate

gwiles September 22, 2014 8:55 pm

The Wooster Geology Climate Change class spent a beautiful fall day in Stony Creek, Ohio coring beams in three structures of historical significance. They will determine the cut dates (calendar dates when the timber for the houses were felled) for … Continue reading →

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Checking in from the Far East

gwiles August 14, 2013 7:19 pm

We are currently finishing our first leg of field research on Sakhalin Island, Fareast Russia, and today we are traveling to Vladivostok to stage the next two weeks of sampling climate-sensitive trees. This is  collaborative Wooster project funded by NSF … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in the Far East of Russia — and on Russian TV!

Mark Wilson August 14, 2013 10:08 am

Dr. Greg Wiles, the Ross K. Shoolroy Chair of Natural Resources at Wooster, is currently on an adventurous dendrochronology research trip to the Far East of Russia, including Sakhalin Island. He will have much more to say about it on … Continue reading →

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Lauren Vargo (’13) starts off the Wooster Geologists in the 2013 Senior Research Symposium at The College of Wooster

Mark Wilson April 26, 2013 10:39 am

WOOSTER, OHIO–The College of Wooster has an annual celebration of Independent Study after all the theses are done and (most) of the oral examinations. It is much fun as our students present their research to the community, which often includes … Continue reading →

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One of the many diverse results of being a geology major: the adventures of Will Driscoll (’05) in evolutionary ecology

Mark Wilson March 6, 2013 10:38 am

WOOSTER, OHIO–Yesterday Greg Wiles and I attended a Biology Department Seminar given by our former student Will Driscoll (Geology ’05). Will was in all our standard departmental courses and did his Independent Study project with Dr. Wiles in dendrochronology. Yet … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists on Camera — Spotlight on Dendrochronology

Mark Wilson November 16, 2012 11:49 am

WOOSTER, OHIO–Greg Wiles and members of his crack dendrochronology team from our tree-ring laboratory are being filmed today for a PBS program called “Our Ohio“. It is great fun watching the TV crew setting up their equipment, and our faculty, … Continue reading →

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Busy Wooster geology labs this summer

Mark Wilson August 1, 2012 6:59 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–This has been a particularly active summer in Scovel Hall, home of Wooster’s Geology Department. All our fieldwork eventually results in labwork, so our student geologists have been spending quality time with rocksaws, microscopes, computers and x-ray analytical equipment. … Continue reading →

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