Greg Wiles

Climate Change 2017 is pleased to have been asked to date the Tracy House, Apple Creek Ohio. The log house/cabin is now stored in the soon to be Apple Creek Community Center and Library will be reassembled this […]

Climate Change 2017 is pleased to have been asked to date the Tracy House, Apple Creek Ohio. The log house/cabin is now stored in the soon to be Apple Creek Community Center and Library. The house will be […]

Two class projects kick off the Climate Change 2017 course. The first deals with tree-ring dating (dendrochronology, blog post coming soon) of historical structures and then analyzing the tree-rings for their c […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.
 

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.

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 Because of ongoing environmental changes some of these materials are out of date.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).