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Guest Blogger Grace Neuman: From mossy bogs to forgotten fields, the landscape of Northeastern Ohio holds buried stories. My Independent study, examines how two centuries of post-settlement human activity have altered the region’s ecosystems, and how we can still see … Continue reading →

As a child, I was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke‘s 1956 science fiction novel The City and the Stars to search for patterns in prime numbers. Chapter 6 begins: Jeserac sat motionless within a whirlpool of numbers. The first thousand … Continue reading →

Alexandria, Virginia — This is my second post about my new home in the Mid Atlantic. I retired from The College of Wooster in August of 2024, and just three weeks ago my wife and I moved from Wooster, Ohio, … Continue reading →

Alexandria, Virginia —Last August I retired from The College of Wooster after 43 years of service. It was difficult to detach from the wonderful Earth Sciences department after planting such deep roots in this extraordinary community of teacher/scholars. Then two … Continue reading →

The link to the full publication and supporting data can be found here. HBI Wizard, Aaron Diefendorf (University of Cincinnati) on the forest edge of Browns Lake, Wayne County Ohio. Dr. Diefendorf and Dr. T.V. Lowell and their students (Dietrich, … Continue reading →

The lead author of this work, Fred (Wenshuo) Zhao, photographed in front of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. The logs at his feet, recently exposed by the retreating ice, are the subject of his undergraduate thesis and this publication. … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →