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Artificial neural networks are increasingly important in society, technology, and science, and they are increasingly large and energy hungry. Indeed, the escalating energy footprint of large-scale computing is a growing economic and societal burden. Must we always use brute force, … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Guest Bloggers – SEAK25: On the third and final day in Angoon, we split into two groups. One climbed Hood Bay Mountain to extract high-elevation mountain hemlock cores, the other kayaked to Turn Point, searching for and coring culturally modified … Continue reading →

Guest bloggers SEAK2025: We began Day 2 at Angoon High School, learning about student research focused on the preservation of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs). A CMT is any tree that has been modified by indigenous people for cultural or practical … Continue reading →

Guest bloggers – SEAK25: The SEAK Team traveled to Juneau Alaska from Wooster where they had been learning the basic of tree-ring dating and dendroclimatic analyses, After spending a couple days in Juneau, our Keck SEAK 2025 Team took a … Continue reading →

Special thanks to Nat McCoy and Dr. Pollock for their hard work on the Earth Sciences 2024-2025 Annual Report. You can access the report through this link.

We are pleased to announce the Earth Sciences Departmental Annual Report for 2024-25. Special thanks to Nat McCoy and Dr. Pollock for their hard work on the document.

Dendrochronological methods are a key part to our research team’s success. While analyzing and drawing conclusions from data is essential, it is equally as important to ensure the proper collection, preparation, and handling of samples and extraction of ring measurements. … Continue reading →

Guest Blogger: Lynnsey Delio, The Keck Geology 2025 team has been working in the Wooster dendrochronology lab for the first week of research. The team cored the oak tree in front of Scovel on day 1 for some practice coring. … Continue reading →