Tag Archives: Wooster Earth Sciences

New Paper on an Extreme Low Lake Level in the Great Lakes

gwiles October 31, 2026 10:54 am

It was great to help out Dr. Tim Fisher (University of Toledo) in this effort (the full publication is here). Dr. Fisher was vacationing in Georgian Bay on Lake Huron when he discovered a stump rooted ~0.5 below the historical … Continue reading →

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Browns Lake Bog and Dams Blog

gwiles October 29, 2026 7:39 pm

Guest Bloggers: Eddie, Stephen, Nolan. This Monday, October 26, 2026, the Hydrology team (Figure 1) headed into the field to better understand how groundwater moves through the landscape. The Team stopped at two locations, Shreve Lake and Brown’s Bog. Surveying … Continue reading →

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The Abbey Arboretum and The College of Wooster Campus

gwiles October 24, 2026 3:40 pm

We are thankful of the generous gift to the College of Wooster that made possible the designation of our campus as an arboretum – The Abbey Arboretum. Paul Abbey (Wooster class of ’73) and his wife, Constance Norweb Abbey, have … Continue reading →

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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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Wooster Geologists in northern Virginia on a great summer day

mwilson September 6, 2025 11:21 am

Alexandria, Virginia.– Today Wooster Geologists Greg Wiles and Nick Wiesenberg visited Gloria and me in our new home in northern Virginia. It was great to see treasured old friends from the department. After lunch we visited a tree in our … Continue reading →

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And sometimes it rains.

mwilson July 17, 2024 7:42 pm

Today I took Peter, Lauren and Evie on another afternoon local field trip, this time to Wooster Memorial Park (Spangler). We wanted to repeat the enjoyable exploration we had last week in Lodi Community Park. This time, though, we got … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists begin a new semester

mwilson January 28, 2022 9:20 am

We all hope this is our last pandemic semester. The College of Wooster began all its courses remotely for the first week of the semester, a format we are all very familiar with by now. In the second week we … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist goes virtual

mwilson December 15, 2020 3:53 pm

Wooster, Ohio — We can’t let the eventful year of 2020 to pass without some record in this blog of how these difficult times profoundly affected Wooster’s Department of Earth Sciences. Along with the rest of the American educational system, … Continue reading →

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