Tag Archives: Wooster

Memories of warmer days…

mpollock December 2, 2010 7:09 pm

Now that the semester is winding down and the cold weather has set in, I find my mind wandering back to the beginning of the academic year. It seems like it was years ago, not months, that our Mineralogy class … Continue reading →

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Trays of trilobites, buckets of belemnites ….

Mark Wilson November 26, 2010 9:20 am

WOOSTER, OHIO — Last weekend we picked up another load of rocks, minerals and fossils donated by the family of one of our loyal alumni. We will be sorting through them for months getting them ready for displays and our … Continue reading →

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An Afternoon of Rocks and Minerals at Cornerstone Elementary

gwiles November 16, 2010 9:20 pm

Tuesday we had the pleasure to work with Mrs. Gaut’s and Ms Long’s (standing) third grade classes. Wooster Geology seniors Stephanie Jarvis and LaShawna Weeks taught 32 well-prepared students mineral and rock identification. LaShawna shows the group the fine art … Continue reading →

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GeoJeopardy!

Mark Wilson November 11, 2010 7:01 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO — Dr. Meagen Pollock had a great idea: a geology Jeopardy game to liven up a Geology Club meeting … and to encourage the retention of all that knowledge we’re serving up daily. She used a software package … Continue reading →

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Putting donated fossils to work

Mark Wilson November 5, 2010 10:52 am

WOOSTER, OHIO — Last month we began integrating a large collection of rocks, minerals and fossils into our teaching program in the Department of Geology. These specimens were donated by an Ohio family who lovingly gathered them over decades. They … Continue reading →

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It is not just fossils in a paleontology lab

Mark Wilson November 4, 2010 2:50 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO — To understand ancient life a paleontology student must also know a considerable amount about modern life. In our Invertebrate Paleontology course this means that students study, for example, modern clams to provide a context for the fossil … Continue reading →

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Another GSA presentation from a Wooster Geologist: Long-term tree ring records from Glacier Bay National Park

Mark Wilson November 3, 2010 6:25 pm

(by Stephanie Jarvis, ’11) Professor Greg Wiles, the Ross K. Shoolroy Chair of Natural Resources at Wooster, finished off the series of Wooster presentations at this year’s Geological Society of America Annual Meeting with his talk: “Multi-millenial-scale tree ring records … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geology Alumni Gather at the 2010 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

Mark Wilson November 1, 2010 11:09 pm

DENVER, COLORADO — It has been a tradition for decades that Wooster Geology alumni, faculty and students meet one evening during the annual GSA conference. This year we had forty people come by; a good number of them are pictured … Continue reading →

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George Davis (Wooster ’64) receives a prestigious award from the Geological Society of America

Mark Wilson October 31, 2010 6:06 pm

DENVER, COLORADO — George H. Davis, structural geologist extraordinaire and a 1964 geology graduate from Wooster, will receive the Structural Geology and Tectonics Career Contribution Award from the Geological Society of America at this annual meeting. This honor is given … Continue reading →

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Tree Rings and the Huna Tlingit People: A Wooster Student Geologist Talk

Mark Wilson October 31, 2010 2:19 pm

DENVER, COLORADO — The Wooster Geologists are very proud today of our own Sarah Appleton, who just gave a professional talk at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting this morning.  Her topic was sorting out a historical mystery about … Continue reading →

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