Greg Wiles

The fate of Alaska yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis D. Don; Oerst. ex D.P. Little) in a changing climate is a fascinating tale. Our collaborator, Lauren Oakes published a book last year called the Canary […]

This 40 cm thick matrix- supported diamict surprised the group.

The group looking somewhat surprised.

Four new studies from the Wooster Tree Ring Lab have recently appeared in Ecology, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biosciences, The Holoceneand Chemosphere.

Brian Buma lead the study published in Ecologythat […]

The class stands in front of one of the unconformities in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler). There was some discussion if this is a disconformity (yes) or a nonconformity (maybe yes). The lodgment till at […]

Welcome to the course in Geomorphology. This year we will focus on landscapes around Wooster, Ohio beginning with the LIDAR view of sites and then field visits. A focus will be on reconstructing the geomorphic […]

Tree Corpsvisits the Wooster Tree Ring Lab. Tree Corps is a program run out of the Holden Arboretum designed to provide training to the arboriculture workforce in the Cleveland Area. It is funded by the Cleveland […]

The Wooster Tree Ring Lab collaborated on a publication describing the recent thermal history of the Lidder Valley, Northwest Himalaya. Dr. Santosh Shah, the lead author, is a multitalented paleoclimatologist at […]

Dr. Ben Gaglioti (Lamont-Doherty Tree Ring Laband University of Alaska – Fairbanks) just published an article entitled: Timing and Potential Causes of 19th-Century Glacier Advances in Coastal Alaska Based on […]

The Wooster Tree Ring Lab collaborated on a publication describing the recent thermal history of the Lidder Valley, Northwest Himalaya. Dr. Santosh Shah, the lead author, is a multitalented paleoclimatologist at […]

Tutorial in The Geology of Oil and Gas
 
 Another successful well – in the process of completion. Flaring the gas during another era of Oil and Gas development.
Who has the oil? – this is what the balance o […]

Welcome to ESCI 110 – Environmental Geology. This is the web syllabus for the Fall 2019 Environmental Geology course at The College of Wooster. Web resources via links, announcements and assignments will be add […]

This is the first teaching of this course called Paleoclimate. We have a lot to do this semester – we will core a lake, core trees and visit ice cores. The course was formerly Climate Change – you can glance at […]

A new article by researchers at the WTRL  describing a bit about the history of tree-ring dating in Ohio is now out in
The Ohio Woodland Journal. A pdf can be found here.
 

Post, photos, and illustrations by Victoria Race

This semester, the Geomorphology class from the College of Wooster Earth Sciences department went to several local field sites to study geomorphological […]

The Wooster Tree Ring Lab is part of the international tree-ring community, that investigated the global extent and seasonal timing of the rapid increase in atmospheric 14C concentrations from the two largest cos […]

A recent publication that includes the Wooster Tree Ring Lab was published in Nature Communications. See this press release from Cambridge University who lead the effort. 

Results of fieldwork in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve by collaborators from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and University of Alaska – Fairbanks  are described here in this excellent blog. This […]

Community Forestry group and Tree Corps – a new program run out of the Holden Arboretum visited the Tree Ring Lab to learn a bit about tree-sampling and the information contained in the tree […]

Summer 2018 research in the Tree Ring Lab has come to a close. The group of five students worked on a variety of projects, learning about the climate and history of Ohio and Alaska, and the application of […]