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The Wooster Tree Ring Lab and Archaeology Day at the Wayne County Historical Society, Wooster Ohio

gwiles October 18, 2026 9:53 am

The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab (WTRL) participated in Archaeology Day. It was a beautiful day exchanging views and data between archaeologists, historians, Wooster Earth Scientists and the public. Continue reading →

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GSA2026 Denver – Student Work

gwiles October 13, 2026 3:17 pm

Four Wooster undergraduate students traveled to the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver for three days of presentations, networking and learning. They reported on preliminary results of their Independent Study thesis work. Adam is looking at … Continue reading →

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Voices in the Trees: Update on the Alaska Youth Stewards and The College of Wooster Tree-Ring Lab Collaboration at Five Years

gwiles March 14, 2026 3:19 pm

Participants: Greg Wiles, Nick Wiesenberg, Ben Gaglioti, Daniel Mann, Gabrielle Sjoberg, Eloise Peabbles, Eric Benedict, Julian Narvaez, Bob Girt, Arianna Lapke, Lilly Hinkley, Amanda Flory, Michail Protopapadakis, Wenshuo Zhao, Tyrell Cooper,  Lynnsey Delio, Isabel Held, Dexter Pakula, Landon Vaughan, Lev … Continue reading →

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New Publication from the Wooster Tree Ring Lab

gwiles April 26, 2025 10:31 am

The lead author of this work, Fred (Wenshuo) Zhao, photographed in front of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. The logs at his feet, recently exposed by the retreating ice, are the subject of his undergraduate thesis and this publication. … Continue reading →

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Browns Lake Bog Revisited – PACLIM25

gwiles March 15, 2025 1:28 pm

Paleoclimate 2025 (PACLIM25) is a class in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster. A goal of the course is to learn about past climates, their relevance to future climates, and to have the class contribute to … Continue reading →

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Ten Days in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

gwiles July 17, 2022 1:56 am

After spending a day in Juneau gearing up, we flew over to Gustavus, Alaska and then got a ride to Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. We then rented kayaks and headed into Glacier Bay. Shortly after … Continue reading →

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Coryphodon and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Emily Randall’s Senior Independent Study thesis

mwilson March 25, 2020 9:08 am

Editor’s Note: Independent Study (IS) at The College of Wooster is a three-course series required of every student before graduation. Earth Sciences students typically begin in the second semester of their junior years with project identification, literature review, and a … Continue reading →

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New Impact Crater Discovered Under Greenland

acrawford November 17, 2018 10:18 am

If you’re plugged into science news outlets, you’ve likely seen stories about a very large crater that has been detected underneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland (e.g., at Science News).  Here’s the link to the peer-reviewed article in Science Advances, by … Continue reading →

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Climate Monday: The xkcd Earth Temperature Timeline

acrawford April 30, 2018 10:49 am

It’s the final week of the semester, so it’s time for a little fun in the world of weather and climate visualizations.  One of the toughest things that Geologists have to deal with is conveying a sense of time scales. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Sponge and clam borings that revealed an ancient climate event (Upper Pleistocene of The Bahamas)

mwilson April 28, 2017 12:01 am

This week’s fossils celebrate the publication today of a paper in Nature Geoscience that has been 20 years in the making. The title is: “Sea-level oscillations during the Last Interglacial highstand recorded by Bahamas coral”, and the senior author is … Continue reading →

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