Laboratory Photo Gallery
The first half of the Wooster Tree Ring Lab, contains our largest Nikon Boom
microscope, 2 Apple computers, along with a 24 inch
Velmex measuring table (.001mm precision), a quick chek display, dual gooseneck
fiber-optic lights, and a storage of processed logs.
The backwall of the WTRL consists of the 2nd measuring station with 2 Apple
Mac's. This backwall also houses a Mac Powerbook G4,
field notebooks from Alaska, relavent publications, and wood samples from Alaska.
This wall is filled with glacier killed logs from Columbia Bay
in Southcentral, Alaska. This plethora of log samples
is one of the reasons for the Tree-Ring Annex (pictured below)
This lab is mainly used for lake sediment cores, but has been
encroached upon by logs that have no place to go.
We call this lab the Tree-Ring Annex, this lab holds 20,000 year old logs from
Sharonville, Ohio, as well as our
samples collected from historical structures around Northeast Ohio. On the other
side of the lab (pictured below) is
our third measuring station.
This is the third measuring station, it is outfitted with a
24 inch velmex table, a Nikon boom microscope, fiber optic lights,
and 2 apple macintosh computers. In the foreground are samples collected from
a tornado that ripped through Wooster
in November 2004. These samples were from a local elementary school that had
an old growth oak grove.
The two shelving units (left and center) house cores that have been processed.
In front of the shelves is a large toolbox we use to haul
our historical structure dating tools, this toolbox includes 2 drills, a reciprocating
saw, batteries, 5 dry wood borers, and other accessories
for collecting samples. In the background is one of our storage closests that
contains our increment borers, sandpaper for the stationary belt sanders,
and a fraction of our camping gear we use for Alaska.
Our Preparation/Saw Room, This is shared with the rest of the
Geology Dept. (a Rototap is in the left corner) as a saw room.
It houses a bandsaw; a table saw; 2 rock saws; 2 chainsaws (which were put out
for visual affect); A large, high speed, stationary belt sander;
and a low speed smaller stationary belt sander; along with our workbench and
dust collector.
The Wooster Tree Ring Lab · The College of Wooster · Wooster, Ohio 44691· Phone: (330) 263-2298 · Fax: (330) 263-2249 · Email: Gwiles@wooster.edu
