Exploring the Silurian at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm: Last day of work for the Wooster Geology Estonia Team

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN–No paleontological expedition is complete until it includes time in the collections of a museum. No single sampling trip like ours can describe the full diversity of a fossil site, no matter how many days we spend scouring the … Continue reading
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Monday’s Photos Now Available

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Wooster Geologists in Sweden

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN–I had not realized how much water is in the city of Stockholm. Almost a third of the city’s area is water because the center is built on 14 islands connected by bridges and ferries. “The Venice of the … Continue reading
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Case of the Mondays

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Sunday’s Photos are now available.

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Wooster Music Camp on Facebook

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2011 Rosters now available

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A Day in Tallinn, Estonia

TALLINN, ESTONIA–Like our Wooster Geology colleagues in Iceland, we also have a nearly-final day in a city. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, the medieval town square of which is shown above. We started here briefly at the airport, and … Continue reading
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Nature for people

Sara Falkoff ’11 got her dream job, working for the Udall Foundation’s Parks in Focus program to take inner-city children into outdoor places. Here’s her update: “Next week I will be bringing 12 middle-schoolers from the Boys and Girls Clubs … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Ancient shrimp burrows (Middle Jurassic of Israel)

This week we have a trace fossil, the burrow Thalassinoides. It is represented by one of my favorite images, reproduced above, showing a very large Thalassinoides suevicus in the Zohar Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of Makhtesh Qatan in the Negev … Continue reading
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