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Guest Bloggers – SEAK25: On the third and final day in Angoon, we split into two groups. One climbed Hood Bay Mountain to extract high-elevation mountain hemlock cores, the other kayaked to Turn Point, searching for and coring culturally modified… Continue reading →

Guest bloggers SEAK2025: We began Day 2 at Angoon High School, learning about student research focused on the preservation of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs). A CMT is any tree that has been modified by indigenous people for cultural or practical &#82… Continue reading →

Guest bloggers – SEAK25: The SEAK Team traveled to Juneau Alaska from Wooster where they had been learning the basic of tree-ring dating and dendroclimatic analyses, After spending a couple days in Juneau, our Keck SEAK 2025 Team took a … C… Continue reading →

Special thanks to Nat McCoy and Dr. Pollock for their hard work on the Earth Sciences 2024-2025 Annual Report. You can access the report through this link. Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce the Earth Sciences Departmental Annual Report for 2024-25. Special thanks to Nat McCoy and Dr. Pollock for their hard work on the document. Continue reading →

Dendrochronological methods are a key part to our research team’s success. While analyzing and drawing conclusions from data is essential, it is equally as important to ensure the proper collection, preparation, and handling of samples and extraction o… Continue reading →

Guest Blogger: Lynnsey Delio, The Keck Geology 2025 team has been working in the Wooster dendrochronology lab for the first week of research. The team cored the oak tree in front of Scovel on day 1 for some practice coring. … Continue reading &#8… Continue reading →

Figure 1. Title page of Amanda’s thesis including one of the key figures. Amanda Flory (class of 2025) completed a thesis that investigated the interplay between the pace of the ocean-atmosphere climate in the Northeast Pacific that is dominated … Continue reading →

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 w… 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, &#823… Continue reading →