Tag Archives: Wooster Geology

Updating The College of Wooster Oak Tree Ring Record

gwiles September 25, 2026 11:54 am

Guest blogger: Adam Wood The Modern Climate Change course in the fall of 2026 (MCC26) took on the task of updating the campus oak ring-width tree ring chronology. It was last cored over a decade agoand is one of he … Continue reading →

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Wooster Memorial Park Field Trip – Hydrology Lab Fall – 2026

gwiles September 11, 2026 3:19 pm

Guest bloggers: Amrin Sazia, Amelia Crowley, Keiryn Keener and Maddie Ostapchenko. Figure 1. Our Hydrology class during the field trip at Wooster Memorial Park (Buried valley). On the 7th September 2026, our Hydrology class visited Wooster Memorial Park to look … Continue reading →

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The 2025-2026 Earth Sciences Annual Report is Out

gwiles July 1, 2026 4:21 pm

Great to see that The College of Wooster Earth Sciences Annual Report is now out. Thanks to Nat McCoy (ESCI Administrative Coordinator) and Dr. Meagen Pollock (ESCI Chair) for their hard work in assembling this record of all the activities … Continue reading →

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ESCI Senior Independent Studies 2026 – Mary Palmieri

gwiles May 6, 2026 2:20 pm

Mary Palmieri’s senior IS was one of the first attempts at using tree-rings to reconstruct cloud cover. A double major in Earth Sciences and Statistical and Data Sciences, Mary was advised by Drs. Wiles and Pasteur. Abstract: The climate of the … 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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Geochemistry Adventure in a Flooded Killbuck Marsh

Rebecca Matecha April 4, 2024 12:30 pm

On Wednesday Dr. Matecha’s Geochemistry class took a trip out to Killbuck Marsh to collect water samples for a research project. This week saw Ohio and Wooster especially inundated with heavy rain, which led to some very interesting conditions for … Continue reading →

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Milestones for two Wooster Geologists

mwilson May 26, 2021 5:43 pm

There was some good news for the College of Wooster Earth Sciences faculty during the otherwise dreary Pandemic Year. The two cheerful Wooster geologists pictured above in the field (today!) reached important points in their professional lives. Dr. Meagen Pollock … 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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Thirty-third annual report of the Wooster Earth Sciences Department now available

mwilson September 9, 2019 11:16 am

Thank you to Patrice Reeder for her epic work on this report, from its design and art to content. Click away and enjoy!

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