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Author Archives: Mark Wilson
A new book chapter for a new year: Evolutionary history of colonial organisms as hosts and parasites
My Estonian colleague and friend Olev Vinn and I have a chapter in the new book The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism. Ours is chapter four on the evolutionary history of colonial organisms as hosts and parasites. One of … Continue readin… Continue reading
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Wooster’s Department of Earth Sciences 2020-2021 Annual Report!
Our Administrative Coordinator Patrice Reeder has assembled another magnificent annual report for our department. Once again the Covid Pandemic made this task all the more complex. The cover shows one of our remote courses during the eventful year. We&… Continue reading
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On encountering a nest of fraudulent geology papers
This is a different kind of post! This semester I stumbled into an enormous collection of phony research papers published in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. I became fascinated with the brazen nature of this fraud, and its large scale. … Cont… Continue reading
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New paper: Introducing the taphonomic process of ooimmuration
I’m pleased to announce the publication of an article describing how fossils can be preserved within carbonate ooids, and what the implications are for this new aspect of taphonomy (the study of fossil preservation) we call ooimmuration. The team… Continue reading
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Two Wooster Geologists Honored Today
It is inspiring to see two Wooster Geologists in the news today for national honors! Professor Shelley Judge has been named as this year’s NCAA Div. III Faculty Athletics Representative of the Year by the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association. … Continue reading
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Wooster fieldwork resumes at Brown’s Lake Bog on a gorgeous day
Wayne County, Ohio — It was a perfect day for Wooster Geologists to do some aquatic fieldwork. It was my first day of fieldwork since March 2020 in Utah. This time I wasn’t doing much actual work, though — I … Continue reading &… Continue reading
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Laboratory microphotography in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster (Part 2)
This is the third in a series on laboratory photography in the Department of Earth Sciences at Wooster. In a comment on a Fossil of the Week post last month, Wooster Geologist Alumnus Dr. Bill Reinthal asked if I could … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Laboratory microphotography in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster (Part 1)
In a comment on a Fossil of the Week post last month, Wooster Geologist Alumnus Dr. Bill Reinthal asked if I could describe how we do our lab photography in the Earth Sciences department. I started what will be a … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Laboratory macrophotography in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster
In a comment on a Fossil of the Week post last month, Wooster Geologist Alumnus Dr. Bill Reinthal suggested I describe the processes I use to create images of rocks and fossils for this blog, publications and other outlets. This … Continue readin… Continue reading
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A diatom study begins at Wooster
This happy Wooster Geologist is Justine Paul Berina (’22). He and I have started a project with diatoms found in mud cores taken from Brown’s Lake and Brown’s Lake Bog by Dr. Greg Wiles, Nick Weisenberg, various crews from the …… Continue reading
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