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The Everglades Are All About Geology
If you’ve ever been to the Everglades or even heard of them, you probably are picturing something like this: Or maybe this: In other words, Everglades National Park exists because it is “important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species” … Continue reading →
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New Impact Crater Discovered Under Greenland
If you’re plugged into science news outlets, you’ve likely seen stories about a very large crater that has been detected underneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland (e.g., at Science News). Here’s the link to the peer-reviewed article in Science Advances, by … Continue reading →
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Wooster Records its Third Wettest Year on Record
If you live in Ohio and have felt wet and miserable the past year, you now have vindication. Based on the long-term record from the OARDC weather station, Wooster has just completed it’s third wettest year on record (i.e., since … Continue reading →
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Using Snow to Predict Sea Ice
One of my active areas of research is trying to find physical links in the Arctic climate system that may help us better predict when seasonal sea ice cover will disappear each summer. Good sea ice predictions are important because … Continue reading →
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Can Heat Flow in Ocean Models Predict Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Retreat?
Note: The following blog post is by Ben Sershen (’19), who worked with Dr. Crawford on a summer research project. Intro: My summer research work aimed to further my Junior I.S. in the fields of oceanography and climatology. My research … Continue reading →
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Summer Research at Wooster: Rain-on-Snow in Alaska
The following post is courtesy of Anna Cooke (’20), who worked with Dr. Alex Crawford through Wooster’s Sophomore Research Program this summer In the heat of Ohio’s summer, it’s been a small bit of relief to turn my attention to … Continue reading →
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Wooster Geologists on Helvellyn
During the last two weeks of May, Dr. Alley and were in the UK. Part of the experience involved complaining about the inadequate width of UK roads, but there was also some undeniably beautiful geology. One such location was Helvellyn, … Continue reading →
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Climate Monday: The xkcd Earth Temperature Timeline
It’s the final week of the semester, so it’s time for a little fun in the world of weather and climate visualizations. One of the toughest things that Geologists have to deal with is conveying a sense of time scales. … Continue reading →
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Climate Monday: “Reanalysis”
There’s two weeks left in the semester, so today on Climate Monday we’re going to take things to the next level and highlight not only visualization, but also analysis of climate data. Most of the big papers in climatology nowadays … Continue reading →
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Climate Monday: Repeat Photography
The semester is winding down, so we only have a few more of these climate visualization posts to go. Today, I want to highlight repeat photography. Taking a picture of the same place several or many years apart can be … Continue reading →
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