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Wooster Earth Scientists traveled to Erie PA to attend the joint Northeast /North-Central Geological Society of America for a weekend of geology talks, posters and fieldtrips.   Proto here describes the winter signal that they discovered in the tree-ring record … Continue reading →

Wooster Memorial Park has been a great resource for The College of Wooster Earth Sciences (ESCI), Biology among others. Here the ESCI course in Paleoclimate, under permit from the Friends of Wooster Memorial Park, sampled 20 second growth Eastern Hemlock … Continue reading →

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 →

Last night’s lunar eclipse, as seen from Earth, looked like a solar eclipse, as seen from Moon. Firefly Aerospace‘s NASA-funded Blue Ghost lunar lander recently became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully land on Moon. Blue Ghost’s mission is designed … Continue reading →

The Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1849 and is Ohio’s first Black church and the only surviving antebellum Black church in the state of Ohio. The building is now being restored under the direction of Hardlines Design, Columbus Ohio. … Continue reading →

The College of Wooster Paleoclimate Class was fortunate to visit, Dr. Lonnie Thompson, director and founder of the Byrd Polar Ice Core Lab during lab. Here Dr. Thompson give the class the rundown of all the “firsts” in tropical and … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, I watched live via Starlink as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test aircraft broke the sound barrier in level flight, the first all-civilian aircraft to do so. This success promises the return of commercial supersonic flight, at least … Continue reading →

One of my favorite trace fossils (fossils that record ancient behavior) is the ichnogenus Arachnostega. It was first formally described and named by Bertling in 1992, which is surprisingly recent for such a common fossil. This week my Estonian colleagues … Continue reading →

Nobody walks in L.A., but as a Caltech grad student in the mid 1980s without a car, I once walked from my dorm room up Mount Wilson and touched the enclosure of the famous 100-inch Hooker telescope where Hubble & … Continue reading →

Dr. Eva Lyon ((photo above on June Lake, CA) Wooster Earth Sciences Professor and Wooster Alum.) has recently published her work “A high-resolution record of Late Holocene drought in the eastern Sierra Nevada (California, USA) from June Lake carbonate geochemistry” … Continue reading →