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Congratulations on being admitted into The College of Wooster’s Class of 2019! Instead of writing a blog this year, we are focusing our efforts on social media. We have been and will continue to use Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to … Continue reading →

This week we continue with fossils from the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of the Mesaoria Plain in central Cyprus. These fossils are from a Keck Geology Consortium project in 1996 with Steve Dornbos (’97). Above we have one of the most distinctive … Continue reading →

One of the very best paleontological sites I had the pleasure of collecting was on the hot Mesaoria Plain near the center of the island of Cyprus. It was the summer of 1996 and Steve Dornbos (’97) and I were … Continue reading →

As winter closes in on Ohio, I start dreaming about past field trips in warm places. This week’s fossil takes me back to fieldwork in Alabama and Mississippi during May of 2010. Paul Taylor (The Natural History Museum, London) and … Continue reading →

LEEDS, ENGLAND–It was my good fortune to attend this week the 58th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association in Leeds, Yorkshire, this week. I very much enjoy these meetings because of the high quality of the talks and posters, the … Continue reading →

Every year we highlight at least one of the fossils found and studied by Wooster’s Invertebrate Paleontology class as part of their field and laboratory exercises. This year it is this nice slab of trace fossils collected by Curtis Davies … Continue reading →

I still remember the first time I sit in an American classroom – the students called the professor by her first name, students speak in the classroom directly without any signal (raising their hands), one student challenge the other student’s idea… … Continue reading →

We are pleased to introduce to the world four new species of Jurassic cyclostome bryozoans. In a paper that has just appeared in the Bulletin of Geosciences, Steph Bosch (’14), Paul Taylor and I describe the first tropical Jurassic bryozoan … Continue reading →

   

MLK Planning Committee Members Co-Chairs: Heather Fitz Gibbon (Provost’s Office/Soc/Anthro) and Nancy Grace (CDGE/English)  MarTeze Hammonds (CDGE/Dean of Students Office) Ashley Reid (Physical Education) Sharon Lynn (EPC/Biology) Meagen Pollock (EPC/Geology) Sibrina Collins (Chemistry) Marcia Beasley (Human Resources) Anne Ober (Longbrake … Continue reading →