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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 12 years, 6 months ago
Late September of the year 2011, the leaves were only beginning don their autumnal coats. The weather was crisp and clear, the last vestiges of summer still clinging to the liberal land of Higher Education. U […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 12 years, 6 months ago
Our class trudged up the staircase with no railings, to a level with gaps in the floorboards here and there. A few of us ventured on a wobbly ladder all the way upstairs into the attic. Who knows how old this […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 12 years, 8 months ago
(photo taken in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve June 2010, left to right – Stephanie Jarvis (Wooster ’11), Dan Lawson of CCREL (US Army) and Debbie Prinkey (Wooster ’01))2010 was tied for the second w […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geomorphology 13 years, 4 months ago
Welcome to the Geomorphology (Geology 300) class web page for Spring 2015. Please check this Syllabus weekly for announcements, readings, assignments and links specific to weekly topics covered in class, labs a […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 13 years, 6 months ago
Tree Exhibit – Draft Concepts and Ideas
Review Documents: Final Topics and the final review powerpoint (as a pdf).
On a beautiful Monday afternoon the class ventured south to the lake district of Holmes County […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 13 years, 7 months ago
On Monday, September 27th, Wooster’s Climate Change class hit the road for Kidron, Ohio’s Sonnenberg Village.
The settlement is a rejuvenation project aimed to relocate and reconstruct over a dozen 19th cen […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 13 years, 8 months ago
Odell Lake, located in Holmes County, Ohio, was cored this summer by The College of Wooster and the University of Cincinnati geology departments.
Geophysical techniques were used to map the depth and […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 13 years, 8 months ago
Climate Change: Core Sample Lab, 9-12-10
Core samples and mud everywhere! At first glance, looking at feet and feet of mud samples from Odell Lake didn’t seem like the most fun activity. Little did we know we c […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 13 years, 8 months ago
Last week Derek and I lined up all of the sections of lake core “E” in order to identify any transitions that we wanted to investigate. After opening up each of the 5 thrusts and laying them end-to-end, we deci […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 13 years, 8 months ago
For the past two lab periods, Eliza and I have been working on gathering magnetic susceptibility readings from the Odell cores. Magnetic susceptibility is a measure of the concentration of iron oxides in the s […]
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Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Environmental Geology 13 years, 8 months ago
Extruding another meter of mud for analysis of environmental change.