Tag Archives: Tree Rings

Juneau Recap (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 23, 2025 8:46 am

Guest Blogger Keck SEAK25: We bookended our time in Alaska with hiking, tree coring, and fish consumption in Juneau. Starting off strong with a hike to see Herbert Glacier. We were lucky enough to stay at the University of Alaska … Continue reading →

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Angoon Day 3 – Pt. 2: The Climb (SEAK 25)

gwiles July 23, 2025 8:41 am

Guest Bloggers SEAK2025: On our final day in Angoon, half of the team took a boat across the bay to Hood Bay Mountain, where our goal was to find suitable mountain hemlocks to add to our chronology. Mountain hemlocks typically … Continue reading →

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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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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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Summer Research in the Tree Ring Lab

gwiles May 31, 2018 1:42 pm

This summer, students through the AMRE program with funding from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation are working in the Wooster Tree Ring Lab doing historical dating. Kendra Devereux, Alexis Lanier, and Juwan Shabazz are working with clients to date local barns, … Continue reading →

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Wooster geologists begin their 2016 Geological Society of America meeting adventure

Mark Wilson September 25, 2016 12:23 pm

DENVER, COLORADO — Seventeen Wooster students have now arrived in Denver for the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. Eleven of them are giving presentations of some sort. We are very proud of each. Dr. Meagen Pollock and … Continue reading →

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23 Hours of Sunlight and 22 Hours of Bugs (Part 2)

gwiles July 5, 2016 2:36 pm

Guest bloggers: Andrew Wayrynen and Jeff Gunderson We take our berry picking very seriously Oh so you thought you got rid of Team Alaska, didn’t you? Yeah well, just as there are as many cedar sites in Juneau as there … Continue reading →

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23 Hours of Sunlight and 22 Hours of Bugs (Part 1)

gwiles June 26, 2016 10:16 pm

Guest bloggers: Andrew Wayrynen and Jeff Gunderson First attempt at collecting wood in Muir Inlet with Dan Lawson  Two College of Wooster geologists in the Alaskan wilderness is always a recipe for success. Thanks to Dr. Wiles and the geo … Continue reading →

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What we learned in Climate Change (Geology 210, Spring 2016)

gwiles May 31, 2016 9:35 am

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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Glacier Bay 2015

gwiles July 30, 2015 11:21 am

Guest Blogger: Dan Misinay This summer Dr. Wiles, Nick, Jesse Wiles, and myself traveled to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. We spent our six days in upper Muir Inlet at Wolf Point. Our purpose this summer was to bridge … Continue reading →

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