Voices | Greg Wiles | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/gwiles/activity/ Activity feed for Greg Wiles. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:35:45 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4d21397cae183bc86c0f5072d42a11a7 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2032 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:19:00 +0000 Voices in the Trees: Update on the Alaska Youth Stewards and The College of Wooster Tree-Ring Lab Collaboration at Five YearsParticipants: […]

]]> d7a0e360ad399c25d5087dbbe60d8053 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2031 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:03:00 +0000 Dating a Cabin from PittsburghDr. Mark Abbott and his graduate students Cole and Adeel visited the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with portions of […]

]]> 8a774e1f2f9c87106da25496040c6c68 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2030 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:08:00 +0000 A New Paper on Deciduous Conifers at Secrest ArboretumImagine a world with larch trees in the uplands and dawn redwoods in the flats, and […]

]]> 0a1934ad9c9dc8f7bdad61ae705a3c2c Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2029 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:36:00 +0000 A New Tree Ring Study from the Kashmir Valley, western HimalayaThe global tree-ring community is racking up the papers investigating the […]

]]> 6b2cfcf47f9738fe68142d4e65a7d340 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2028 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:46:00 +0000 Juneau Recap (SEAK 25)Guest Blogger Keck SEAK25: We bookended our time in Alaska with hiking, tree coring, and fish consumption in […]

]]> d2461adc74b9b46f26a354aa16f0f0f3 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2027 Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:08:00 +0000 Angoon Day 3 – Pt. 1: Turn Point (SEAK 25)Guest Bloggers – SEAK25: On the third and final day in Angoon, we split into two groups. One c […]

]]> 9aea7f06b68ff2704692232db60c9a9f Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2026 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:10:00 +0000 Keck (SEAK25) Week 2: Dendrochronological MethodsDendrochronological methods are a key part to our research team’s success. While a […]

]]> 0c8d0a1581d7d57cd411eb6f6565981e Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2025 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:43:00 +0000 The Southeast Alaska Keck Team of 2025 Begins Work on the Dendrochronology of Red CedarsGuest Blogger: Lynnsey Delio, The Keck Geology […]

]]> e7d4e296dfc0128544c4ddd91c488ef1 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2024 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:10:00 +0000 Investigation of a Ring Width Yellow Cedar (Cupressus nootkatensis) Series as a Record of Coolings Associated with Volcanic EruptionsFigure […]

]]> c68cd5d0daf6985b0808820089e6cbce Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2023 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:31:00 +0000 New Publication from the Wooster Tree Ring LabThe lead author of this work, Fred (Wenshuo) Zhao, photographed in front of the Mendenhall […]

]]> e1c7ce7717800b822d78e89e49b155fc Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2022 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:04:00 +0000 New Paper on Oaks in Ohio – A Nostalgia TourThe College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab faculty, staff and students have teamed up to publish […]

]]> c43d987cedaa6cc5320d425f282e7e7f Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2021 Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:41:00 +0000 Coring Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler)Wooster Memorial Park has been a great resource for The […]

]]> 60af01deeb65ac78a66dd1c31b63ccd8 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2020 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:18:00 +0000 Tree Ring Dating of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, South Point, OhioThe Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church was established in […]

]]> 8df756f931fee03286d2632a8488369c Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2019 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000 Ketchikan to KlawockGuest Bloggers: Mihalis Protopapadakis and Amanda Flory This year the College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab flew to […]

]]> 4a17d673da315c2a8b08655663844a5d Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2015 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 02:07:00 +0000 Alaska Collaboration, Ongoing and Future ProjectsIn addition to the summer work described by Lilly Hinkley and Tyrell Cooper, the Wooster […]

]]> 6f8f971cb451f3f37c4a94a9fc2cf9f4 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2014 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:41:00 +0000 Coring Trees and Flying over Seas, Hoonah, Alaska 2023Guest Bloggers: Lilly Hinkley and Tyrell Cooper Tyrell, Lilly, Nick and Dr. Wiles of […]

]]> 214ab2bcfa3340f810479659ae95f260 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2009 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 18:57:00 +0000 There are two legs to the project this summer. Lilly and Fred are headed back to the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with samples from Kake and Jacob and Jack have arrived. Jack, Jacob, Nick and I will now travel to […]

]]> e4832f4c8066a450ee9297c8d353b245 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2008 Sat, 25 Jun 2022 13:13:00 +0000 Editor’s note: The following is by Caitlyn Denes (’23).
“The Community Climate Change Project sought to document the changes in climate in Wooster, Ohio and surrounding communities. Through the collection, analy […]

]]> 0cb336d5d540b34e7d05ae483620ac99 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=2007 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:25:00 +0000 Cincinnati, Ohio —  This week Professor Wiles, Nick Wiesenberg and I attended the 2022 Joint North-Central and Southeastern meeting of the Geological Society of America in Cincinnati, about a three-hour drive so […]

]]> f11c36ab0b17a8cea737a048d5eeb199 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1955 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:18:55 +0000 We were all there that day in September at Spangler when we saw the evidence of the ice age – the loess the Pleistocene/Holocene unconformity. A special shout out to Nick (far left) who provided the logistics for […]

]]> ef1c5ccca61d4ebc01a1823e29c1e0ba Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1949 Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:37:18 +0000 A mighty oak has fallen. An Oak Grove tree that stood for more than two centuries came down on Monday at The College of Wooster.

No people or property were hurt when the black oak (quercus velutina) fell, […]

]]> 195c043f51ab7a78a639c887e70bb1e7 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1947 Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:32:17 +0000 We had the good fortune to work (remotely) with four TRAYLS groups in Alaska. The TRAYLS (Training Rural Alaskan Youth Leaders & Students) Groups from Southeast Alaska teamed up with Earth Scientist s […]

]]> 6b819c07f02cae79a25b49c1c2a0945f Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1942 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:34:00 +0000 Members of the Wooster Tree Ring Lab had a great opportunity to travel to a seldom-visited part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve – a transect from Wolf Lake to Burroughs Glacier. We were there because t […]

]]> 62e077dcdd7a0ea4c751375be7cf1a60 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1941 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:45:00 +0000 On 20 April 2021 Wooster Memorial Park became part of the Old Growth Forest Network.  The founder and director, Joan Maloof, visited Wooster Memorial Park forest to officially induct the park into the Network. […]

]]> 66f1980d0d560bc7837211114f0b30bd Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1939 Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:10:00 +0000 We had the good fortune this summer to work remotely with the TRAYLS group out of Hoonah, Alaska.
Figure 1. Google Earth map showing the location of the town of Hoonah and the coring sites. Two tree ring sites […]

]]> c2bb9f75ac12b17f26483b38c3940194 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1908 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:11:25 +0000 We had the good fortune this summer to work remotely with the TRAYLS group out of Hoonah, Alaska.
Figure 1. Google Earth map showing the location of the town of Hoonah and the coring sites. Two tree ring sites […]

]]> 971f1bc375ea3d0fb1c89e0dba2729ee Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1940 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:12:00 +0000 By: Mazvita Chikomo, Srushti Chaudhari, Fred Zhao (as part of the AMRE 2020; The College of Wooster, Tree Ring Lab)
The aim of this study was to analyze White oak trees, to see how old they are and, how they are […]

]]> 2fb4deb7885a44b03eab64877666983c Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1855 Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:01:13 +0000 By: Mazvita Chikomo, Srushti Chaudhari, Fred Zhao (as part of the AMRE 2020; The College of Wooster, Tree Ring Lab)
The aim of this study was to analyze White oak trees, to see how old they are and, how they are […]

]]> 809296de259667f0f2ce3bb5009ae654 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1812 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:05:42 +0000 The Wooster Tree Ring Lab has just published a paper with Franklin and Marshall College and The Ohio State University on the climate response of the Dawn Redwood tree. The study site is the beautiful Secrest […]

]]> 2d2bc10379304e85ce760b6991f42b70 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Alaska Cedar https://alaskacedar.voices.wooster.edu/?p=140 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 22:19:11 +0000 The Wooster Tree Ring Lab has just published a paper with Franklin and Marshall College and The Ohio State University on the climate response of the Dawn Redwood tree. The study site is the beautiful Secrest […]

]]> 424bba214e52f8014d234076dd10ab1d Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1779 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 17:46:36 +0000 The fate of Alaska yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis D. Don; Oerst. ex D.P. Little) in a changing climate is a fascinating tale. Our collaborator, Lauren Oakes published a book last year called the Canary […]

]]> 9ceccc8f1a2852ee040fb678a82556c6 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geomorphology http://geomorphology.voices.wooster.edu/?p=931 Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:10:07 +0000 This 40 cm thick matrix- supported diamict surprised the group.

The group looking somewhat surprised.

]]> a62bde7f67a10945920e8e5bf423b0b2 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1746 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:46:30 +0000 Four new studies from the Wooster Tree Ring Lab have recently appeared in Ecology, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biosciences, The Holoceneand Chemosphere.

Brian Buma lead the study published in Ecologythat […]

]]> ae952d3a519ddb765625d59b07c5d55f Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geomorphology http://geomorphology.voices.wooster.edu/?p=913 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:34:08 +0000 The class stands in front of one of the unconformities in Wooster Memorial Park (aka Spangler). There was some discussion if this is a disconformity (yes) or a nonconformity (maybe yes). The lodgment till at […]

]]> 4852bc1af2ded63cd6567e404cc97ce4 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geomorphology http://geomorphology.voices.wooster.edu/?p=876 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:11:18 +0000 Welcome to the course in Geomorphology. This year we will focus on landscapes around Wooster, Ohio beginning with the LIDAR view of sites and then field visits. A focus will be on reconstructing the geomorphic […]

]]> bd3c9105af98b03a8c622c8cd629bea9 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1721 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:40:40 +0000 Tree Corpsvisits the Wooster Tree Ring Lab. Tree Corps is a program run out of the Holden Arboretum designed to provide training to the arboriculture workforce in the Cleveland Area. It is funded by the Cleveland […]

]]> 6155da218c7dea1679d6ed56b972dc0f Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1717 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:57:57 +0000 The Wooster Tree Ring Lab collaborated on a publication describing the recent thermal history of the Lidder Valley, Northwest Himalaya. Dr. Santosh Shah, the lead author, is a multitalented paleoclimatologist at […]

]]> b6327ce5be8db5024f2b5fb229a88ccc Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1711 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:55:36 +0000 Dr. Ben Gaglioti (Lamont-Doherty Tree Ring Laband University of Alaska – Fairbanks) just published an article entitled: Timing and Potential Causes of 19th-Century Glacier Advances in Coastal Alaska Based on […]

]]> f14aa18904f3527e288bd6fa64bab9af Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1692 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 07:13:12 +0000 The Wooster Tree Ring Lab collaborated on a publication describing the recent thermal history of the Lidder Valley, Northwest Himalaya. Dr. Santosh Shah, the lead author, is a multitalented paleoclimatologist at […]

]]> a645c26e38d6965e5426823c141bb273 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geology of Oil and Gas http://thegeologyofoilandgas.voices.wooster.edu/?p=106 Sat, 06 Apr 2019 10:25:29 +0000 Tutorial in The Geology of Oil and Gas
 
 Another successful well – in the process of completion. Flaring the gas during another era of Oil and Gas development.
Who has the oil? – this is what the balance o […]

]]> 6d5603894d64e2ab5fd8312f3184adec Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 http://climatechange.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1445 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 16:28:49 +0000

]]> 9ecd4943f65ecd470025bb21bb303de7 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Environmental Geology http://environmental.voices.wooster.edu/?p=841 Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:34:33 +0000 Welcome to ESCI 110 – Environmental Geology. This is the web syllabus for the Fall 2019 Environmental Geology course at The College of Wooster. Web resources via links, announcements and assignments will be add […]

]]> f2e48020cd7927c6b998184fa85a8a90 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site ESCI 270 http://climatechange.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1367 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:21:19 +0000 This is the first teaching of this course called Paleoclimate. We have a lot to do this semester – we will core a lake, core trees and visit ice cores. The course was formerly Climate Change – you can glance at […]

]]> 0036c98862f850a32cc8cc79cf7c342c Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1678 Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:56:41 +0000 A new article by researchers at the WTRL  describing a bit about the history of tree-ring dating in Ohio is now out in
The Ohio Woodland Journal. A pdf can be found here.
 

]]> b94fee165772e8b5b87518875b01d5e1 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geomorphology http://geomorphology.voices.wooster.edu/?p=874 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:36:22 +0000 Post, photos, and illustrations by Victoria Race

This semester, the Geomorphology class from the College of Wooster Earth Sciences department went to several local field sites to study geomorphological […]

]]> f2cc8d9d1ea5f80518c20355c5eed447 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1676 Sun, 07 Oct 2018 14:27:12 +0000 The Wooster Tree Ring Lab is part of the international tree-ring community, that investigated the global extent and seasonal timing of the rapid increase in atmospheric 14C concentrations from the two largest cos […]

]]> 0dbe664c8422b8aeaf65d7fb375dfc80 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1672 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:51:40 +0000 A recent publication that includes the Wooster Tree Ring Lab was published in Nature Communications. See this press release from Cambridge University who lead the effort. 

]]> 87a082037bad1e2b0651d75fe41f72f9 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1664 Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:45:37 +0000 Results of fieldwork in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve by collaborators from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and University of Alaska – Fairbanks  are described here in this excellent blog. This […]

]]> 4c8d2dd4b556f8899d8b44452fb35bb7 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1647 Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:23:08 +0000 Community Forestry group and Tree Corps – a new program run out of the Holden Arboretum visited the Tree Ring Lab to learn a bit about tree-sampling and the information contained in the tree […]

]]> 6391eab1fa59c48cc46ec699bfb67b10 Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site The College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab https://treering.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1645 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:41:00 +0000 Summer 2018 research in the Tree Ring Lab has come to a close. The group of five students worked on a variety of projects, learning about the climate and history of Ohio and Alaska, and the application of […]

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