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Jonathan Rothman is a senior sociology major from St. Louis, Missouri. He is a four-year member of the Fighting Scots baseball team, and he also works in the Admissions Office during the academic year. Here is what he had to … Continue reading →

UTAH – Team Utah has been seriously geologizing in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field over the past two days. Here’s a photo-journal of the crew at work.  

UTAH – Team Utah has been seriously geologizing in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field over the past two days. Here’s a photo-journal of the crew at work.  

Yikes.  I don’t even know where to start.  I guess because it’s the first couple days of being back in India, a lot is happening all at once.  So let me start with Tuesday morning….   I woke up and … Continue reading →

(This post is painfully long… I just started writing and this is what came out.  Feel free to skim!)   Sensory overload.  Nostalgia.  Sweat.  Mercifully, fans.  Tea.  Taxis.  Smiles.   This is where I am now, but allow me to … Continue reading →

CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–One of the treats of many small scientific meetings, like the International Bryozoology Association conference I am attending now, is that we can have a variety of short field trips for all participants. Today we packed into two … Continue reading →

ICELAND – Team Iceland is nearly ready to return to the states, but not before we share what we’ve learned with the Icelandic community. Our home-away-from-home, the Hraunbyrgi guesthouse, is also home for the Hafnarfjörður scouts. To celebrate the end of … Continue reading →

UTAH – Field work has officially begun for Team Utah, Version 2.0. The team consists of three Wooster seniors (Kyle Burden ’14, Cam Matesich ’14, Candy Thornton, ’14) and two Wooster sophomores (Adam Silverstein ’16, Michael Williams ’16). Tricia Hall … Continue reading →

CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–This was the last day of our International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field trip through Sicily. We had an excellent time and covered an extraordinary amount of territory on this large Mediterranean island. We started our final day on … Continue reading →

Here’s a type of fossil I’ve never seen: worm burrow casts made entirely of the mineral marcasite. These come from the George Chambers (’79) gift collection, so we know only that they were found in Bolivia. Despite the lack of … Continue reading →