Greg Wiles

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 […]

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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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 Because of ongoing environmental changes some of these materials are out of date.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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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).

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 […]

Discussing the subsurface flow in a sand and gravel Kame at Browns Lake Bog.

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 […]

Welcome to Environmental Geology (Geology 110) 

The Killbuck Valley in flood.
The Killbuck Valley in corn

The group at Fern Valley. Gaging Wilkin Run and measuring water levels in wells.

Leo examining the Ice Contact stratified drift of the terminal moraine that in part lies across Fern Valley. This deposit records […]

 
Senior IS day only the dedicated staff members made the trip to Browns Lake to record water levels and install a well.
 

Now that the snow pack measured and described at Wooster Memorial Park is gone do […]

Dr. Lowell and a crew from the University of Cincinnati spent thee days with us on the ice at Browns Lake Bog. The objectives were to take a series of long cores from the ice platform at the bog and, in the big […]

The semester is over – so one last post including the final report to Doug McGlumphy on the dates of his remarkable buildings….see the McGlumphy_report. We thanks Doug for access to his buildings that allowed u […]

Review session is at 8 pm in Scovel 116 on Sunday. Here are the key slides to go with the review sheet (also poster here with links). It has been fun and I think we did some good for moving climate science in Ohio […]