A Beautiful Day at the South Wellfield

HYDRO25 the class. On a beautiful fall day the class investigated the South Wellfield – the mission was to take water levels from 15 observation wells and sample the groundwater, surface water and water emanating from the airstrippers. Isotopic analyses … Continue reading
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GSA – San Antonio 2025

At the alumni reception – a reunion. Elliot Miller (Wooster) presenting his IS work on geochemical analyses of palagonite and potential applications to Martian exploration. Mary Palmieri (Wooster) investigates the linkages of tree rings and cloudiness in Northeast US. Lynnsey … Continue reading
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My Second Patent

Today, about six years after beginning the relevant research, my colleagues (and fellow inventors) and I have been issued U.S. Patent No. US 12,450,468 B2, “Physics augmented neural networks configured for operating in environments that mix order and chaos”. The … Continue reading
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Fern Valley HYDRO25

Guest bloggers: Ihaja Metz and Cooper Norwell: On  September 29th, 2025 Dr. Wiles’s Hydrology class (along with Dr. Ison’s Field Botany class) took a trip out to Fern Valley, a College of Wooster monitering station on Wilkin run, a stream … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Water – The South Wellfield

Guest bloggers: Luke Woodfill and Francis Nwokonko (HYDRO25) On 9/22/25, Dr. Wiles’ Hydrology class (plus our wonderful ESCI technician Nick Wiesenberg) had the opportunity to tour the Wooster, Ohio Water Treatment Plant. On the way there, we stopped to see … Continue reading
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The boulders of Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.– As a retirement gift in 2024, my thoughtful department and other friends gave Gloria and me a certificate to stay in a beautiful and charming bed & breakfast establishment in Gettysburg. (Shout out to the Brafferton Inn!) They … Continue reading
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Springs Lab (HYDRO25)

Guest bloggers: Adam Wood and Arjan Chahal. On September 8, 2025, the College of Wooster ESCI-28000-01 (Hydro) team visited two artesian wells/springs (Kinney and Wayne County Airport site). Above the group is shown taking notes on the location, the depth … Continue reading
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HYDRO25 – A Walk in the Park (Wooster Memorial Park)

Guest Bloggers: Li Winner and Aaron Walter Dr. Wiles’s 2025 Hydrology class visited Spangler Park this past Monday. The day was sunny and warm. The main objective was to study the geological history and hydrology of the park. Especially with … Continue reading
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Extreme SI Prefixes

In the spring of 2020, on my NC State sabbatical, during the initial lock-down for the worst pandemic of my lifetime, I stayed busy in part by writing a text called g = 2: A Gentle Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. … Continue reading
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HYDRO25 – Macroinvertebrate Survey

Guest bloggers: Phillipp Drappatz and Elliot Miller, the Hydrology class at the College of Wooster performed a macroinvertebrate survey on 8/25/25 on Apple Creek in Wooster. The first lab of the semester was a trip to Grosjean Park in Wooster. … Continue reading
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