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Tag Archives: paleoclimate
Ten Days in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
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
Coryphodon and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Emily Randall’s Senior Independent Study thesis
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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Tagged Eocene, fossils, Independent Study, Paleocene, paleoclimate, paleoecology, Wyoming
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New Impact Crater Discovered Under Greenland
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
Climate Monday: The xkcd Earth Temperature Timeline
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
Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Sponge and clam borings that revealed an ancient climate event (Upper Pleistocene of The Bahamas)
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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Tagged climate change, Fossil of the Week, fossils, ichnology, paleoclimate, Pleistocene, The Bahamas
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Wooster Geologists participate in the historic March For Science on Earth Day, 2017
Wooster, Ohio — It was a chilly day downtown, but several hundred people gathered for the national March For Science. We were one of over 500 local events across the country advocating for science awareness, education and funding. Thank you … Continue reading
What we learned in Climate Change (Geology 210, Spring 2016)
A dedicated group of geologists, physicists, archaeologists, political scientists, biologists, english and history majors joined forces to learn a bit about Climate Change in the natural laboratory of Northeast Ohio. Here they surround a glacial erratic in Secrest Arboretum of … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, glaciation, paleoclimate, Pleistocene, Tree Rings
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Wooster Geologists (and a Wooster Chemist) visit Brown’s Lake Bog
I was privileged today to visit Brown’s Lake Bog, a Nature Conservancy preserve, with Greg Wiles, Nick Wiesenberg, and Kim Carter (Chemistry ’16). Greg and Nick have been here many times with students and colleagues, including some epic sessions of … Continue reading
Three Days on Ice
Dr. Lowell and a crew from the University of Cincinnati spent thee days with us on the ice at Browns Lake Bog. The objectives were to take a series of long cores from the ice platform at the bog and, … Continue reading
Last Fieldtrip for Climate Change
As the weather cools – the Wooster Geology Climate Change class ventured out in the field one more time. For the remainder of the semester we will try to get some work done. Two sites were visited – the Cedar Creek … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, climate change, fossils, Ohio, paleoclimate, sediment
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