Mark A. Wilson

Department Chair; Lewis M. and Marian Senter Nixon Professor of Natural Sciences; Professor

Department/Affiliation: Geology
Phone: 330-263-2247
Office Address: 120 Scovel
Office Hours: See my office door for weekly appointment schedule.
Email: mwilson@wooster.edu
Web Site: Mark Wilson

Degrees

B.A., Wooster 1978
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1982

Courses Taught

GEOL 100: History of Life
GEOL 250: Invertebrate Paleontology
Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
Geology Confronts Creationism
First Year Seminar: Nonsense (And Why It's So Popular)

I.S. Projects

Robert McConnell (2010): "Paleoenvironmental analysis of the Silurian Jaani Formation on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia"
Palmer Shonk (2010): "Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Late Silurian (Pridoli) Aigu Beds of Saaremaa Island, Estonia"
Elyssa Belding (2009): "Jurassic Paleocommunities and Paleoecology in the Matmor Formation (Callovian) of Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Israel"
Heather Hunt (2009): "Paleocommunities and Paleoenvironments of the Logan Formation (Mississippian, Osagean) of Northeastern Ohio"
John Sime (2009): "The Taphonomy and Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous Shell-hosted Cryptic Community (Western Interior Basin, USA)"
Andy Milligan (2008): "Rapid calcite seafloor cementation in cystoid tests (Ordovician, Estonia): A test of the calcite sea model"
Meredith Sharpe (2008): "Window into the past: What equatorial marine fossils indicate about the Jurassic of Israel"
Sophie Lehmann (2008): "Shallow marine paleocommunities and paleoenvironments of the Middle Jurassic within Hamakhtesh Hagadol of Israel's Negev Desert"

Awards & Professional Memberships

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Publications

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Teaching Philosophy

“The best geologist is the one who has seen the most rocks.” (Ernst Cloos, 1898-1974)

Notes

A member of the faculty since 1981, Wilson studies the evolution and paleoecology of encrusting and bioeroding invertebrates, as well as the origin and diagenesis of carbonate rocks (especially hardgrounds), calcite sea dynamics, and Pleistocene sealevel change.