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Another successful year conducting research for community impact!

The Social Entrepreneurship (SE) program at The College of Wooster once again designed community-based projects that connected talented students seeking experiential learning opportunities with community leaders with real business needs. For more than … Continue reading

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Ten Days in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

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

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Lingulid brachiopod trace fossils from the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation of southwestern Utah

This is a short trace fossil story with two disappointments, one much more than the other. It involves trace fossils made by lingulid brachiopods, a marine invertebrate group with a very long geological history. The earliest appeared in the Cambrian, &… Continue reading

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Alaska Day 5 – Juneau

There are two legs to the project this summer. Lilly and Fred are headed back to the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with samples from Kake and Jacob and Jack have arrived. Jack, Jacob, Nick and I will now travel to … Continue reading → Continue reading

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Alaska Day 4

A view from the porch of the Forest Service cabin out into the Sound. Day 4 started in the intertidal zone at low tide. Identification of the various intertebrates included the limpet above. This large cockle was squirting water through … Continu… Continue reading

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Alaska Day 3

Coring the furthest north stand of Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata). Celebrating another successful core extraction by Siah. Banana slug on the forest floor. Mounting the redcedar cores at the Forest Service cabin. Also examining cores taken in previou… Continue reading

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Alaska_2022

We arrived in Juneau on Sunday flying from Cleveland to Juneau. The goal of the trip is to work with the AYLS youth group of Kake Alaska (formerly known as TRAYLS) coring trees with both the Wooster group of faculty, … Continue reading → Continue reading

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Reflecting on the Earth Sciences Department’s Community Climate Change (CCC) Project

Editor’s note: The following is by Caitlyn Denes (’23). “The Community Climate Change Project sought to document the changes in climate in Wooster, Ohio and surrounding communities. Through the collection, analysis, and interpretation of cl… Continue reading

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GRAVITY and Gravity

In Alfonso Cuarón‘s Oscar-winning 2013 movie GRAVITY, actress Sandra Bullock‘s Dr. Ryan Stone makes an emergency entrance into an abruptly abandoned International Space Station. This month, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristofor… Continue reading

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New paper: Early Neoproterozoic stromatolites from south Liaoning Province, China

I’m pleased to announce the online publication of a new paper from a Chinese-American geological team. I’m the sole American! My role was minor, being mostly useful for literature review and writing. The senior author is my friend Yong-Li Z… Continue reading

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