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Memoirs of a Glacier

Blog Post By Jennifer Horton Lauren Vargo and I conducted our Senior I.S. field work in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a beautiful park in the small town of Gustavus, Alaska.  GBNPP is a gigantic park that covers a … Continue reading &#… Continue reading

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From the Desert to the Rainforest: Heading to Alaska

(Guest Blogger: Lauren Vargo) From the dessert to the rainforest, several other Wooster geologists, Dr. Greg Wiles, Jenn Horton, and myself, traveled to southeast Alaska. The main goal of the trip was to investigate Adams Inlet in Glacier Bay National … Continue reading

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Urban Gardening in Cleveland: Gaining Steam

Following is an update from Adam Donnelly, a rising junior who is one of three Scots serving urban garden internships in Cleveland, sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship.  Adam is interning with Community Greenhouse Partners, an ambitious initi… Continue reading

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: a long and skinny bryozoan (Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming and South Dakota, USA)

Please say hello to Pierrella larsoni Wilson & Taylor 2012 — a new genus and species of ctenostome bryozoan from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota. I imagine it as a graceful little thing … Continue reading

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Sense of Direction

When I travel internationally, I always face two challenges related to my sense of direction.  First, as family and friends who have traveled with me are all too aware, on a practical level I am very directionally challenged.  I tend … Continue… Continue reading

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Final Field Day

FILLMORE, UTAH – [Guest Bloggers Tricia Hall and Will Cary] We arrived at the field site at 9:30am with the sun already beating down on the lava fields, which are the convenient color of black. Dr. Pollock, Whitney, and Kevin … Continue rea… Continue reading

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A Visit to the Utah Core Research Center

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – On Tuesday, Team Utah visited the Core Research Center at the Utah Geological Survey. The repository includes cores and cuttings from more than 4000 wells, on-site microscope facilities, and a friendly and knowledgeable sta… Continue reading

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Farmer, gardener, whatever, I get to use a pitchfork

“So what’s your job in Cleveland this summer?” “I’m a farmer.” “So…you mean you’re a gardener. Or you drive an hour outside of the city to work on a farm.” “Well, the program I work for … Continue reading

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The Joys of Mobbing

FILLMORE, UTAH – [Guest Bloggers Matt Peppers, Whitney Sims, and Will Cary] With our alarms set for 6:30, we guaranteed that we wouldn’t be up before 7 am. After a hurried lunch packing session, the group headed out to inaugurate … Contin… Continue reading

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2012 Camp Information

The 2012 Wooster music camp is almost here! The printed deadline has passed, but there are still openings available! We’ll be accepting applications for another week or so.  So if you haven’t yet, hop over to the downloads page, grab an… Continue reading

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