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The geomorphology of Mount Eagle, Virginia, and the Civil War

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 → Continue reading

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Wooster Geologist in northern Virginia

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/s… Continue reading

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New Survey of Biomarkers in Lakes Across A Large Swath of North America

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

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New Publication from the Wooster Tree Ring Lab

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. &#8230… Continue reading

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From Glacial Lake Craigton to Browns Lake Bog

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 … Continue reading

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New Paper on Oaks in Ohio – A Nostalgia Tour

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 read… Continue reading

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Fram2 Over the Poles

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

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2D Kepler Conjecture

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 … Continue reading

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GSA – Erie 2025

Wooster Earth Scientists traveled to Erie PA to attend the joint Northeast /North-Central Geological Society of America for a weekend of geology talks, posters and fieldtrips.   Proto here describes the winter signal that they discovered in the tr… Continue reading

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Coring Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler)

Wooster Memorial Park has been a great resource for The College of Wooster Earth Sciences (ESCI), Biology among others. Here the ESCI course in Paleoclimate, under permit from the Friends of Wooster Memorial Park, sampled 20 second growth Eastern Hemlo… Continue reading

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