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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Alaska Day 5 – Juneau, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 1 month, 1 week ago
There are two legs to the project this summer. Lilly and Fred are headed back to the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with samples from Kake and Jacob and Jack have arrived. Jack, Jacob, Nick and I will now travel to […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Reflecting on the Earth Sciences Department’s Community Climate Change (CCC) Project, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Editor’s note: The following is by Caitlyn Denes (’23).
“The Community Climate Change Project sought to document the changes in climate in Wooster, Ohio and surrounding communities. Through the collection, analy […] -
Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Wooster geologists at the Joint North-Central and Southeastern Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Cincinnati, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 4 months, 1 week ago
Cincinnati, Ohio — This week Professor Wiles, Nick Wiesenberg and I attended the 2022 Joint North-Central and Southeastern meeting of the Geological Society of America in Cincinnati, about a three-hour drive so […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Some Things we Learned in the Course of the Paleoclimate Class (and some things that we might pursue), on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 8 months, 1 week ago
We were all there that day in September at Spangler when we saw the evidence of the ice age – the loess the Pleistocene/Holocene unconformity. A special shout out to Nick (far left) who provided the logistics for […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Centuries-old black oak falls on Wooster campus, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 12 months ago
A mighty oak has fallen. An Oak Grove tree that stood for more than two centuries came down on Monday at The College of Wooster.
No people or property were hurt when the black oak (quercus velutina) fell, […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Working Remotely with Youth Groups in Southeast Alaska, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 12 months ago
We had the good fortune to work (remotely) with four TRAYLS groups in Alaska. The TRAYLS (Training Rural Alaskan Youth Leaders & Students) Groups from Southeast Alaska teamed up with Earth Scientist s […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Wolf Lake and the Surrounding Landscape, Glacier Bay, Alaska, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 1 year ago
Members of the Wooster Tree Ring Lab had a great opportunity to travel to a seldom-visited part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve – a transect from Wolf Lake to Burroughs Glacier. We were there because t […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Wooster Memorial Park – Now Part of the Old Growth Forest Network, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 1 year, 3 months ago
On 20 April 2021 Wooster Memorial Park became part of the Old Growth Forest Network. The founder and director, Joan Maloof, visited Wooster Memorial Park forest to officially induct the park into the Network. […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Coring Trees on Chicagof Island, Hoonah, Alaska, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years ago
We had the good fortune this summer to work remotely with the TRAYLS group out of Hoonah, Alaska.
Figure 1. Google Earth map showing the location of the town of Hoonah and the coring sites. Two tree ring sites […] -
Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Tree Rings and Climate, Ear Mountain Hoonah, Alaska, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years ago
We had the good fortune this summer to work remotely with the TRAYLS group out of Hoonah, Alaska.
Figure 1. Google Earth map showing the location of the town of Hoonah and the coring sites. Two tree ring sites […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, AMRE Summer 2020 – Remote Learning and Tree Rings – Part 1. The Oaks at the Kinney Soccer Fields, Wooster, Ohio, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years, 1 month ago
By: Mazvita Chikomo, Srushti Chaudhari, Fred Zhao (as part of the AMRE 2020; The College of Wooster, Tree Ring Lab)
The aim of this study was to analyze White oak trees, to see how old they are and, how they are […] -
Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Climate Analysis of the White Oaks (Quercus alba) At Kinney Field, Wooster, Ohio, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years, 1 month ago
By: Mazvita Chikomo, Srushti Chaudhari, Fred Zhao (as part of the AMRE 2020; The College of Wooster, Tree Ring Lab)
The aim of this study was to analyze White oak trees, to see how old they are and, how they are […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, New Publication on the Climate Response of the Dawn Redwoods, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years, 2 months ago
The Wooster Tree Ring Lab has just published a paper with Franklin and Marshall College and The Ohio State University on the climate response of the Dawn Redwood tree. The study site is the beautiful Secrest […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, New Paper on the Growth and Climate Response of the Dawn Redwoods, Secrest Arboretum, Wooster, on the site Alaska Cedar 2 years, 2 months ago
The Wooster Tree Ring Lab has just published a paper with Franklin and Marshall College and The Ohio State University on the climate response of the Dawn Redwood tree. The study site is the beautiful Secrest […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, New publication on Alaska Yellow Cedar, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years, 9 months ago
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 […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Till in the Delta, on the site Geomorphology 2 years, 10 months ago
This 40 cm thick matrix- supported diamict surprised the group.
The group looking somewhat surprised.
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Four New Publications from the Wooster Tree Ring Lab, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 2 years, 11 months ago
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 […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, First Trip to Spangler, on the site Geomorphology 2 years, 11 months ago
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 […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Welcome to ESCI 370 – Fall 2019, on the site Geomorphology 2 years, 12 months ago
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 […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Tree Corps Visits the Lab, on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab 3 years, 1 month ago
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 […]
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