From Glacial Lake Craigton to Browns Lake Bog

Last Monday there was a power outage on campus and classes were cancelled, despite this news our afternoon lab period fieldtrip went on as planned. The trip consisted of a field trip led by Nigel Brush (retired from Ashland U. … Continue reading
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New Paper on Oaks in Ohio – A Nostalgia Tour

The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab faculty, staff and students have teamed up to publish results of  an analysis of a network of tree-ring sites in Northeast Ohio to ask the question what is driving the changing climate response … Continue reading
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Fram2 Over the Poles

Historically, astronauts have launched roughly eastward to exploit Earth’s spin, whose equator moves at nearly 1000 mph with respect to its center. But last week the Fram2 SpaceX Dragon crew became the first humans to orbit Earth over its poles. … Continue reading
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2D Kepler Conjecture

Johannes Kepler asserted in 1611 that no packing of identical balls has density greater than the hexagonal close-packed “cannonball” packing of oranges at a grocery store’s fruit stand. But the gulf between intuition and proof was so large that the … Continue reading
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GSA – Erie 2025

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
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Coring Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler)

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
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Browns Lake Bog Revisited – PACLIM25

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
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Blue Ghost Eclipse

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
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Tree Ring Dating of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, South Point, Ohio

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
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Trip to Byrd Polar Ice Core Lab

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
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