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The group gearing up to describe and map soils in the old growth stand just east of the College Golf Course. Guest bloggers: Lynnsey, Cate, Evie, Chanel, Lilly and Amanda   Figure 1. Diagram showing the formation of the glacial … Continue re… Continue reading →

Guest bloggers: Grace, Hayden, Vince and Ethan The group working with soils at Browns Lake Bog Preserve. The goal was the dig three soils pits and examine the soil catena from the top of a kame to the base controlling … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Guest bloggers: Damien, Rheo, Elliot and Arron: On September 9th the 2024 Fall Geomorphology Class took a trip to Spangler Gorge in Wooster Memorial Park. Here the students studied how the valley formed around Rathburn Run as well as the … Contin… Continue reading →

Guest bloggers: Amanda Flory and Mihalis Protopapadakis Carnivorous sundews found in Balls Lake muskegs. On our last full day at Prince of Wales Island, we explored the trail around Balls Lake, in Tongass National Forest. The AYS team helped us …… Continue reading →

Guest Bloggers: Mihalis Protopapadakis and Amanda Flory This year the College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab flew to Ketchikan for our 2024 Alaska trip. July 6th and 7th were spent in Ketchikan, where we collected samples from Deer Mountain after … Con… Continue reading →

  Guest Bloggers: Evie Sanford and Peter Rothstein – On June 11, the 2024 Scovel Summer Research Team visited Apple Creek with Trout Unlimited to analyze the water quality through a macroinvertebrate survey. This study was performed because … Continue reading →

In addition to the summer work described by Lilly Hinkley and Tyrell Cooper, the Wooster Tree Ring Lab is collaborating projects with (1) The Tree Ring Lab of the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. This work is part of a … Continue … Continue reading →

Guest Bloggers: Lilly Hinkley and Tyrell Cooper Tyrell, Lilly, Nick and Dr. Wiles of Wooster’s Tree Ring Lab (WTRL) were in Juneau and Hoonah, Alaska working in collaboration with the Alaskan Youth Stewards (AYS) in order to extend our tree &#823… Continue reading →

This is a post outlining some of the work we did in Wooster’s class in Geomorphology. One of the early labs was Browns Lake Bog and the Soil Catena. The landforms in the area are spectacular – here is a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After spending a day in Juneau gearing up, we flew over to Gustavus, Alaska and then got a ride to Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. We then rented kayaks and headed into Glacier Bay. Shortly after … Continue reading → Continue reading →