A local geological field trip on a midsummer’s day: Return to the Lower Carboniferous of Lodi, Ohio

Wooster, Ohio– This afternoon three industrious summer research students and I took advantage of the brilliant weather to drive 30 minutes north of town to Lodi Community Park in Medina County, Ohio. We wanted to take a break from lab … Continue reading
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Ketchikan to Klawock

Guest Bloggers: Mihalis Protopapadakis and Amanda Flory This year the College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab flew to Ketchikan for our 2024 Alaska trip. July 6th and 7th were spent in Ketchikan, where we collected samples from Deer Mountain after … Continue reading
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Sabbatical trip to Europe – Part 1

Since about 2018, I was interested in the work of Julian Hirniak, who published an article on periodic chemical systems in 1908 (and a follow-up in 1911), before Alfred Lotka’s famous theoretical 1910 paper and William Bray’s experimental work in … Continue reading
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The Longest Flight

As a kid, pouring over the Guinness Book of World Records, I was struck by the longest flight; instead of lasting hours, as I would have guessed, it lasted more than two months! Nearly 66 years later, it remains one … Continue reading
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Where Are the Stars?

When viewing space photography, such as Apollo or International Space Station photos, people often ask, “Where are the stars?” Typically such photos properly expose the relatively bright lunar or space station surfaces and consequently underexpose the stars, rendering space as … Continue reading
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Two Environmental Geoscience majors featured in Wooster Magazine

We are proud of all our graduating seniors. When their Senior Independent Study projects are described outside the department, we highlight their excellent work for a larger audience. Corey Knauf (shown above) and Athena Tharenos (shown below) were both featured … Continue reading
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Buggin’ Out at Apple Creek

  Guest Bloggers: Evie Sanford and Peter Rothstein – On June 11, the 2024 Scovel Summer Research Team visited Apple Creek with Trout Unlimited to analyze the water quality through a macroinvertebrate survey. This study was performed because macroinvertebrates are … Continue reading
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James Parkinson, Paleontologist

Ann Arbor, Michigan — This morning I gave a talk at the North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) about the extensive contributions that the English physician James Parkinson (1755-1824) made to the rapidly growing field of paleontology in the early 19th … Continue reading
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Bertrand’s Postulate

When searching for prime numbers, the next prime number is no larger than twice the current number. Postulated by Joseph Bertrand, first proved by Pafnuty Chebyshev, I present an elementary proof based on one by the teenage Paul Erdős. Erdős … Continue reading
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Aero thermo dynamics

Up early this morning to watch the spectacular fourth integrated flight test of SpaceX’s Superheavy Starship, the largest rocket ever built. Each IFT has greatly improved on the previous one, and the fourth was no exception. For the first time, … Continue reading
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