- Following a presentation in September 2000, Dr.
Mark Wilson's page on "The
New Creationists" has been updated with new links to
resources on the Creation/Evolution issue.
- The recent Alaskan
fieldwork of Dr.
Greg Wiles and his students Aaron
Shear and Kirk
Lapham is described in this news story from the College.
Their work with tree rings and paleoclimate may help solve important
questions about modern climate change. Russ
Kohrs and his work in the local Johnson
Woods is also featured.
- Steve
Dornbos ('97) has an article in the September
2000 issue of Geology describing the results of his
graduate work at USC on the evolutionary paleoecology of helicoplacoids
(ancient echinoderms) and what they can tell us about Cambrian
substrates. The full text is currently available online at this
GSA website. Steve is also a co-author on the related lead article
in GSA
Today (September 2000).
- Jonathan Miller ('85) has an igneous
petrology article currently available online in the August
2000 issue of the GSA Bulletin. The article starts on
page 1264.
- The 2000
Geology Annual Report is now available online.
- Dr.
Lori Bettison-Varga is featured in this story
in The Chronicle of Higher Education on women in science.
- Dr. Mark Wilson's bioerosion
research was the subject of this recent story
in The Daily Record.
- Check out our newly renovated Wooster
Seismic Station pages, which now include data files, a map
of the quickly-growing Ohio Seismic Network, and links to other
seismic stations. It is the subject of this front-page
story in The Daily Record. Dr.
Robert Varga is our seismic station administrator.
- We are very pleased to announce that Dr.
Robert Varga has been named the new Shoolroy Chair of Natural
Resources at The College of Wooster.
- We have recently added a new set of webpages dedicated to
patterns and processes of bioerosion.
This new addition joins our "soft
rock" project pages and the new pages for our paleomagnetism
program.
- All Wooster Geology faculty participated in the CUR
2000 meeting held at the College this June. Dr.
Lori Bettison-Varga was one of the meeting organizers. CUR
stands for the Council on Undergraduate
Research.
- Wooster Geology faculty and students made presentations at
the North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America
meeting in Indianapolis this April. Here is the College news
release. The abstracts may be read here.
- Megan Mandernach ('99), now in graduate school at the University
of Wisconsin, has recently been awarded a prestigious Graduate
Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations
Megan!
- Lisa
Park ('88), now an assistant professor at the University
of Akron, has been named a Paleontological Society Distinguished
Lecturer for 2001-2003. Congratulations Lisa!
- The Spring 2000 Sedimentology
& Stratigraphy class completed a set of "Posters
on the Web" on carbonate
hardground petrology. This project is similar to that produced
by the Invertebrate
Paleontology class on Ordovician
fossils of eastern Indiana.
- Dr.
Greg Wiles and Ryan McAllister ('00)
are featured in a story about their summer geological work in
Alaska.
This article was published in the Wooster Daily Record.
- Dr. Wiles is also featured in this Wooster Daily Record
front-page story on a College
tree he recently cored.
- Read about a presentation by Dr. Robert Varga on his adventurous
geological expedition last year down to the bottom of the sea
in the ALVIN
- In 1999, Dr. Mark Wilson directed the "
Keck Ohio" Project, and Dr.
Lori Bettison-Varga and Dr.
Robert Varga co-directed the "Keck Colorado" Project,
both activities of the Keck Geology Consortium.
- Wooster student Allison
Cornett ('00), from Kendalville, Indiana, received a $4,500
grant to do research at an interglacial site in the Bahamas this
summer. The scholarship was awarded by the Council
on Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Science and Mathematics,
and you can read more here.
Her advisor is Dr.
Mark Wilson.
- Links to national and world news stories about geology are
posted weekly on most of our Geology
Course Pages.
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