Greg Wiles

The Wooster Geology Climate Change class spent a beautiful fall day in Stony Creek, Ohio coring beams in three structures of historical significance. They will determine the cut dates (calendar dates when the […]

 Picking seeds from a critical layer of mud – the seeds will be sent out for radiocarbon analysis.

An important step was photographing the cores.

Some of the smear slides required a petrologic scope to see […]

Dr. Anderson describing the moisture gradient measured from the bog to the crest of the kame where the old growth remnant oak forest resides.
 

Our Climate Change class visited Browns Lake Bog with the Plant Com […]

Tom Lowell and graduate student Stephanie Allard from Cincinnati and Jacqueline Rodriguez from the University of Illinois made the trip to Morrow County to core mud from a bog adjacent to the Cedar Creek Mastodon […]

Saturday is the Coring of the Cedar Creek Mastodon Site with Dr. Lowell (University of Cincinnati) and Jacklyn Rodriguez (University of Illinois). Tom Lowell truly is the Core Boss and is remarkable when it comes […]

Above graphic taken from a 2006 report by Lowell and others coring lakes in northern Minnesota. Dr. Lowell is on the right without a coat. Henry Loope is in the middle (Henry sent us 20,000 year old LGM wood from […]

Wooster’s Climate Change class is starting the semester by  coring a bog adjacent to a recent Mastodon find in Morrow County, Ohio. The Mastodon work and related excavation is being led by Nigel Brush, Un […]

2013 was tied for the fourth warmest year since we have been keeping track of global temperatures over the last 150 years. This course is an exploration of climate basics, paleoclimatology and contemporary […]

Monday we will meet in Lean Lecture Hall at 8 AM with Gidon Bromberg, who will be giving the forum talk Monday evening – Water and Middle East Peace – Challenges and Opportunities (7:30 PM).

Along the li […]

The Geology of Oil and Gas is an overview of petroleum geology, the oil industry, and its geopolitics. This course is 0.25 credits and will meet in Scovel 116 each Friday afternoon between 2:30 and 3:50. […]

Review will be Sunday 11 Dec. in Scovel 116 at 9pm. Here is the review topics. Kit here is the Final Exam.

The 2011 Climate change class set out on an epic adventure to reconstruct the climate of the College of W […]

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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]