Why Wooster?
› The Geology Department is housed in Scovel Hall,
one of Wooster’s most attractively renovated buildings. It has a
number of laboratories, including a seismic station, a GIS computer workroom,
and paleomagnetics, dendrochronology, sedimentology, and paleontology
labs. The sophisticated equipment in each lab is available to
all students for geological projects and classroom exercises.
› The Department offers a variety of outdoors
and travel experiences to its students because geology is best
learned in the field. Most advanced courses feature field trips from
halfday excursions in northeast Ohio to three-day trips to the Appalachian
Mountains and elsewhere.
› Many majors take advantage of the department’s
association with the Keck Geology Consortium of eighteen select liberal
arts colleges. The consortium operates summer research
projects throughout
North America as well as in the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East.
› Other students work with faculty members on
summer research projects supported by grants from the National Science
Foundation, the American Chemical Society, and other agencies.
Life After Wooster
Many geology majors continue in graduate programs across the country,
with recent graduates studying at Berkeley, Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins,
Stanford, Vanderbilt, and many other schools. Wooster geology majors often
land jobs in environmental consulting, looking at such issues as cleaning
up groundwater and reclaiming wetlands.
- Stephen Dornbos ’99 is a NASA postdoctoral research fellow
in earth sciences at the University of Southern California with a
specialty in evolutionary paleoecology.
- Andrew Horst ’07 is studying the formation of ocean crust
as a graduate student at Syracuse University. His research has already
taken him to Iceland.
- Joe Dzuban ’99 shows the diverse possibilities for a Wooster
geology major with his recent graduation from film school at the
University of Southern California. He has already produced an award-winning
documentary on the National Spelling Bee.
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