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“Perfer et obdura,  dolor hic tibi proderit olim;” “Be patient and strong, someday this pain will be useful to you;” -Ovid, Amores, Book III, Elegy XI   Before I left for my trip I got this quote tattooed on my rib … Continue reading →

Not all of our featured fossils are particularly beautiful, or even entire, but they are interesting in some way. Above is the broken cross-section of a rostroconch mollusk known as Hippocardia Brown, 1843. It was found somewhere in Ohio by … Continue reading →

This month is the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s November 1915 discovery of the gravitational field equations of General Relativity, in which test masses move along the straightest possible paths (called geodesics) in spacetime curved by the density and flux … Continue reading →

In the summer of 2009 I had a field adventure in Russia. It was an extraordinary time. I learned considerable amounts of Russian geology and paleontology, of course, and was immersed in the Russian geological culture. Along the way I … Continue reading →

Sometimes it is a Fossil of the Week simply because it is new to me. The brachiopods above are abundant in a thin layer of shells within the Lewiston Member of the Rochester Shale (Silurian, Wenlockian) in western New York … Continue reading →

This is my second week in Krakow and my last week in Europe. Right now, to be honest, I’ve very shaken up. Today is a Polish National Holiday. That means that the most proud of all the Nationalists are out. … Continue reading →

Always lead with your most interesting image. The fossil here is the thin orange slab of siltstone underneath my magnificent Komodo Dragon model. Here is the slab itself. On the far right and the far left you can see two … Continue reading →

I wrote this paper as an assignment for my Situated Feminisms course. I felt that it would give insight as to what work I’m doing and what I’m learning in Europe. So, enjoy!   The most prominent aspect of my … Continue reading →

This complex rock was collected decades ago in Adams County, Ohio, by the late Professor Frank L. Koucky of The College of Wooster. He was at the time studying a strange geological feature in that part of the state known … Continue reading →

Congratulations Nicolás (now a researcher in the Cosmogenic Nuclide Group at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ) – Read more about Nicolás’ work and his award here.