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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Coring the Bog, on the site ESCI 270 3 years, 4 months ago
Two class projects kick off the Climate Change course. The first deals with tree-ring dating (dendrochronology, blog post coming soon) of historical structures and then analyzing the tree-rings for their climate […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Welcome to Climate Change (Spring 2017), on the site ESCI 270 3 years, 5 months ago
2016 was one of the warmest years since we have been keeping track of global temperatures over the last 150 years. 2017 will be warm as well; in April we will see carbon dioxide levels break an all-time (since h […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Fern Valley – Round 1, on the site Geomorphology 3 years, 9 months ago
The group at Fern Valley – a bit of a rain during the trip.
Fern Valley is near the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
Peter was able to probe meters down below the glacial moraine materials and into […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Soils at Browns Lake, on the site Geomorphology 3 years, 9 months ago
It is the dry season but even so – we were a bit puzzled why all but one well was dry.
We took a quick march to the lake outlet to recover the transducer.
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Sunday's Excursion, on the site Environmental Geology 3 years, 9 months ago
The group at the Triplett and Van Doren No-Till site.
Coring the Earth.
An air stripping tower at the Wellfield.
An interceptor well at the South Wellfielde.
The support staff coring a Dawn Redwood at Secrest Arboretum.
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Climate Change 2016 (the class) – What We Learned, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 1 month ago
A dedicated, select group of geologists, physicists, archaeologists, political scientists, biologists, english and history majors joined forces to learn a bit about Climate Change in the natural laboratory of […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Final Projects Posting, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 2 months ago
Extracting a Temperature Proxy Record from Larch in Kamchatka
Abbey Martin, Sarah McGrath, Matthew Shearer, Ann Wilkinson, Vincent Hui
The purpose of this study was to analyze larch (Larix cajandery Mayr.) tree […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Welcome to Geology 110 – Environmental Geology, on the site Environmental Geology 4 years, 2 months ago
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Below are some of the photos and materials from last spring’s course. Because of ongoing environmental changes some of these materials are out of date.
Last lecture slides f […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Coring European Larch, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 2 months ago
A pretty reasonable day to work. We had the pleasure of working at Secrest Arboretum last week coring European Larch some planted in 1909 CE. This is the third site collected from Secrest by the Wooster Tree Ring […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, The Barn is Dated, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 2 months ago
Climate Change 2016 has successfully dated the Biggio Barn – ten of the beams were cut in the spring of 1840. The building then was likely constructed shortly after that cut date. A copy of the report […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Coring the Biggio Barn, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 4 months ago
A beautiful day at the Biggio Barn – Nick gives the class the rundown
The barn owner gives the rundown on the history and possible ages of the hand hewn timber frame.
Hong Kong dendrochronologist, Vincent shows […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Coring the Bog, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 4 months ago
Dr. Lowell gives the rundown.
Innovative use of newly machined wrenches –
gives a boost to core through the Anthropogenic layer.Initial description of the 5 meter core – radiocarbon dating will let us know if […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Welcome to Climate Change 2016, on the site ESCI 270 4 years, 5 months ago
Coring Browns Lake
2015 was the warmest year since we have been keeping track of global temperatures over the last 150 years. Right now one of the strongest El Ninos is active in the equatorial Pacific. This […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, The Great Trip, on the site Environmental Geology 4 years, 8 months ago
Starting out at the OARDC after a brief encounter with a glacial erratic, we moved on to the Secrest Arboretum to appreciate the history of growing trees there and the ongoing experiments (including the […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, A View of the Killbuck Aquifer in Millersburg, on the site Geomorphology 4 years, 8 months ago
The high wall of Holmesville Supply sand and gravel gave us a look at what the Wooster Aquifer is made – a sand and gravel Ice Age braided stream (special thanks to Jeremiah for his tour of the mining).
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Fieldwork in Geomorphology, on the site Geomorphology 4 years, 9 months ago
Geomorphology (Geology 300) has been taking advantage of the good weather this Fall traveling in the area. Above the full class stands on a point bar of the Apple Creek. Waves go out to Brian Merritt who […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Environmental Geology – Fall 2015, on the site Environmental Geology 4 years, 9 months ago
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Geomorphology – Fall 2018, on the site Geomorphology 4 years, 9 months ago
Discussing the subsurface flow in a sand and gravel Kame at Browns Lake Bog.
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Welcome to Geomorphology and Environmental Hydrogeology, on the site Geomorphology 5 years, 2 months ago
Class meets in Scovel 116 MWF, Lab will meet in various classrooms and labs.
Initially we will be visiting local field sites in lab (this coming Monday).Below are some scenes of last year’s class.
Surveying […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post, Welcome, on the site Environmental Geology 5 years, 2 months ago
Welcome to Environmental Geology (Geology 110)
The Killbuck Valley in flood.
The Killbuck Valley in corn
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