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Projects designed, Team Jurassic Utah begins fieldwork

mwilson May 18, 2018 5:18 am

Santa Clara, Utah — Galen Schwartzberg (’19) and Ethan Killian (’19) now have their specific Senior Independent Study topics, and so today we began to collect data and specimens. This is always a special time because students have so many … Continue reading →

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Team Jurassic Utah on the Ranch

mwilson May 17, 2018 5:17 am

Santa Clara, Utah — We were fortunate today to work on the land of Eagle Mountain Ranch just north of Gunlock, Utah. The owners, Hyrum and Gail Smith, met us in the morning in their gorgeous ranch home (shown most … Continue reading →

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Team Jurassic Utah sets to work

mwilson May 16, 2018 5:16 am

Santa Clara, Utah — Team Jurassic Utah had its first day in the field, and it was excellent. As you might recall from this blog, last month I visited southwestern Utah alone to scout out locations for this crew, and … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in Southwestern Utah (April 2018)

mwilson April 21, 2018 4:20 am

St. George, Utah — I visited southwestern Utah for a week to prepare for an Independent Study expedition next month to study the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic). I wanted to update locality information I had collected in the 1990s (ancient … Continue reading →

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New article: Paleoecology of an Upper Ordovician submarine cave-dwelling bryozoan fauna and its exposed equivalents in northern Kentucky, USA

mwilson April 20, 2018 11:26 am

I’m happy to link to an article on Ordovician bryozoans that has just appeared in the Journal of Paleontology: Paleoecology of an Upper Ordovician submarine cave-dwelling bryozoan fauna and its exposed equivalents in northern Kentucky, USA It is work Caroline … Continue reading →

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Delightful fossils in the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation on my last field day

mwilson April 19, 2018 4:19 am

St. George, Utah — Today I met Jerry Harris, Professor of Geology at Dixie State University in St. George. He was very friendly, generous and knowledgeable, guiding me to two fantastic Carmel outcrops I would not have approached on my … Continue reading →

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Another day in the shallow Jurassic seas of southwestern Utah

mwilson April 18, 2018 4:18 am

St. George, Utah — Back to the Gunlock region for me to revisit old Carmel Formation research sites to check for access issues and new exposures. This trip has also given me a chance to update my images of the … Continue reading →

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Another geological scouting day in southwestern Utah

mwilson April 17, 2018 4:17 am

Kanab, Utah — My day began with a visit to the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, where I met Andrew R.C. Milner, the Site Paleontologist and Curator. This museum is built over an extraordinary set of dinosaur … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist returns to the Jurassic of southwestern Utah

mwilson April 16, 2018 4:16 am

St. George, Utah — This week I’m exploring the wonderful Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation exposed in southwestern Utah. It is a rare bit of solo fieldwork I’m doing to prepare for a Wooster Independent Study expedition here with students and … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Paleontologist visits the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

mwilson April 5, 2018 11:01 pm

Washington, DC — I have the privilege this semester of being on a research leave from teaching, so I thought I’d report on one of my activities. Without classroom responsibilities I can travel for research opportunities, especially now as the … Continue reading →

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