Site-Wide Activity

We spent a beautiful Fall morning at the Cedar Creek Mastodon site with Dr. Wilson, Dr. Brush (U. Ashland), Dr. Kardulias and other experts examining the sediments and mastodon remains. See Dr. Wilson’s post for […]

Above is the reconstructed temperatures from the Greenland Ice Core. Now that we have radiocarbon ages from our sediment core we can put it into the larger context of the Northern Hemisphere temperature history. […]

Cedar Creek Mastodon Site – Radiocarbon Analysis (courtesy of Beta Analytic Inc.)

 
Wood sample extracted by Emily, Sarah and Tom. Accelerator mass spectrometer dating of the sample yielded the age below.
What […]

The Wooster Geology Climate Change class spent a beautiful fall day in Stony Creek, Ohio coring beams in three structures of historical significance. They will determine the cut dates (calendar dates when the […]

 Picking seeds from a critical layer of mud – the seeds will be sent out for radiocarbon analysis.

An important step was photographing the cores.

Some of the smear slides required a petrologic scope to see […]

About a month ago, I returned from my eighth research trip to the lovely and interesting islands of Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to my own work on frog ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation, I had four […]

Dr. Anderson describing the moisture gradient measured from the bog to the crest of the kame where the old growth remnant oak forest resides.
 

Our Climate Change class visited Browns Lake Bog with the Plant Com […]

Tom Lowell and graduate student Stephanie Allard from Cincinnati and Jacqueline Rodriguez from the University of Illinois made the trip to Morrow County to core mud from a bog adjacent to the Cedar Creek Mastodon […]

Saturday is the Coring of the Cedar Creek Mastodon Site with Dr. Lowell (University of Cincinnati) and Jacklyn Rodriguez (University of Illinois). Tom Lowell truly is the Core Boss and is remarkable when it comes […]

Above graphic taken from a 2006 report by Lowell and others coring lakes in northern Minnesota. Dr. Lowell is on the right without a coat. Henry Loope is in the middle (Henry sent us 20,000 year old LGM wood from […]

Wooster’s Climate Change class is starting the semester by  coring a bog adjacent to a recent Mastodon find in Morrow County, Ohio. The Mastodon work and related excavation is being led by Nigel Brush, Un […]

2013 was tied for the fourth warmest year since we have been keeping track of global temperatures over the last 150 years. This course is an exploration of climate basics, paleoclimatology and contemporary […]

In May, I spent three days in lovely Tulsa, Oklahoma attending the 6th Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders (http://plethodontids2014.weebly.com). These salamanders are the most diverse group of […]

High Intermediate I, Chinese 301, Spring, 2026中高年级中文第一学期 每周一，三，五上午11点到11点50 教室: Kauke 243 教员：王汝杰； 办公室Kauke 203

This week a new paper appeared in the journal Ethology based on work that my students and I have been conducting on the Tobago glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium orientale). In this paper, Sara Green (current Wooster […]

In December 2013, the Ohio Biological Survey published a massive tome on the amphibians of Ohio. This volume (899 pages!) covers all 40 species of frogs and salamanders to be found in the state. There are also […]

Recently, my collaborators and I published a paper that described a new species of parrot snake from Tobago (click here for a preview). This new snake was named Leptophis haileyi in honor of Dr. Adrian Hailey of […]

Beginning Chinese I, Fall 2026 Classroom: Kauke 244 Time: MTWF 12:00–12:50 Office hour：Tuesday 11 in Kauke 203

Chinese 202 中级中文第二学期2026年春季： 时间地点：每周一、三、五，1:00-1:50；Kauke，136 老师：王汝杰，Kauke 203； 每周一、三、五11点到12点； 语言助教：陈品彤， Kauke Commons, 每周ㄧ、三 2点到3点；

Three rising Wooster seniors got their boots dirty (and wet) doing field work in Trinidad and Tobago this past summer. Zak Bradley (’14) sampled seventeen streams in Tobago and northern Trinidad catching oodles o […]