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Professors Greg Wiles and Meagen Pollock earn a field experience grant from the Keck Geology Consortium

Mark Wilson February 26, 2017 3:33 pm

Wooster, Ohio — Two Wooster Geology Professors, Meagen Pollock and Greg Wiles, have a exciting new grant from the Keck Geology Consortium to fund a five-week research program for first-year and sophomore students interested in the Earth Sciences. The experience … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geology’s 2016 Annual Report

Mark Wilson August 23, 2016 1:40 pm

Thanks to the hard work, skills and dedication of Administrative Coordinator Patrice Reeder, our 2016 annual report is now available.

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Construction of the new Life Sciences building begins, and the geologists welcome our new biologist labmates

Mark Wilson May 24, 2016 3:47 pm

Wooster, Ohio — The College of Wooster community will soon say goodbye to Mateer Hall (above), which has housed the Biology Department for decades. It will be demolished next month to make way for the new Ruth Williams Hall of … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist Visits Spangler Park

Mark Wilson May 9, 2016 1:01 pm

Editor’s note: The following entry was written by Chloe Wallace (’17), a student in this year’s Sedimentology & Stratigraphy course. One of our writing assignments was to write a blog post about our recent field trip to Spangler Park (also … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists in the 2016 Wooster Senior Research Symposium

Mark Wilson April 29, 2016 3:21 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–A dozen Wooster Geologists participated today in the annual Wooster Senior Research Symposium: A Celebration of Independent Study! All did superb presentations that were very well received. The geology portion began in the morning with talks from Team Utah … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists begin a new academic year

Mark Wilson September 5, 2015 2:54 pm

The Wooster Geology Department has started the 2015-2016 school year during beautiful late summer weather. Above is the traditional first-of-the-year image of the Geology Club. Everybody is happy to be a geologist. Here are 12 of our senior geology majors … Continue reading →

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Team Utah 2015

mpollock August 6, 2015 3:25 pm

Guest bloggers: Julia Franceschi and Mary Reinthal What do you get when you have zero cloud coverage, 90-degree heat, and a desert? Aside from the start of a bad joke, you get a snippet of the College of Wooster geology’s … Continue reading →

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Inspiring young female scientists through B-WISER

mpollock July 6, 2015 6:05 pm

Wooster, OH – [Guest bloggers Chloe Wallace and Mary Reinthal] When thinking about geology, people tend to think first about rocks. We do love our rocks, preferably pillow basalts, but when Wooster’s campus hosted hundreds of young women science enthusiasts, … Continue reading →

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For Our Wooster Family

mpollock March 13, 2015 12:18 am

Here’s a photo of a peaceful sunrise at the Desert Studies Center to let our WOODS friends know that our thoughts are with them.  

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A molded brachiopod from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio

Mark Wilson February 20, 2015 1:10 am

We haven’t had a local fossil featured on this blog for awhile. Above is an external mold of the spiriferinid brachiopod Syringothyris typa Winchell, 1863, from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous, Osagean, about 345 million years old) of southeastern Wooster, … Continue reading →

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