Earlham College Geology

10/01/2025

Check out what our Watershed Science class is up to! This work is part of a Wayne County Soil & Water Conservation District 205j grant to monitor the East Fork Whitewater River watershed for a year and then write a Watershed Management Plan. (Thanks to Morgan Ball for making the video & everyone in GEOL 482)

11/14/2024

We’re devastated to learn that Dave Puig (Hibbard-Rode), class of 2008, died from a construction-related injury on Tuesday. Dave is remembered as a consistently upbeat person who tried hard to make everyone around him feel better about the world.

Dave was in the first class I taught at Earlham (Landscapes and Soils), and I remember him biking in from the old Miller Farm every morning, arriving a little late, and bursting into class to warm his hands up on the projector. It is very difficult to envision someone for whom life was so obviously to be enjoyed being taken so soon. We will miss him greatly. —Andy

A GoFundMe has been started for Feliciana and their kids, if you feel so led: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-feliciana-alma-and-zola-during-this-tragic-loss (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-feliciana-alma-and-zola-during-this-tragic-loss)

10/29/2024

It was great seeing so many old friends at Homecoming weekend! Thanks to everyone who came out to support our students at Epic Expo

04/19/2023

Happy Earlham Day!

11/14/2022

NPR covered our summer research hunting for fossils by drone and 3D imaging.

Students flew drones and created digital landscape models from GPS data, allowing them to zero in on new fossils.

10/12/2022

Here are a few pictures from our fall field trip to Lake Michigan

09/28/2022

Join Jeff May '75 and Allen McGrew '83 as they host an Earlham alumni dinner at the GSA Annual Meeting in Denver

08/31/2022

Alex, Katherine, and Madison completed another successful field season in the Whitewater River just before classes began. This year we focused on the dam’s impact on water quality as well as resurveying sections of the river up and downstream of the dam. We found a surprising amount of sediment stored behind the dam eroded since last summer. For more information stop by our poster at Epic Expo Oct 14th Homecoming weekend!

08/30/2022

Earlham just posted an article about our summer research in collaboration with the Western Science Center! We're also presenting a portion of the work at the GSA Annual Meeting in Denver- check out the Monday morning poster session 97-6 - IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S A BRAND NEW FIELD SITE: USING UNCREWED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) TO DISCOVER AND DIGITIZE FOSSIL LOCALITIES

Researchers from Earlham College are pioneering new methods to locate fossils found in 16-million-year-old bedrock in the Mojave Desert.

06/29/2022

Just back from a month in Southern California where we mapped Miocene fossil sites, practiced photogrammetry on mammoth teeth and a Pliocene whale skull, and surveyed the museum campus. Looking forward to more collaboration with the Western Science Center, including an upcoming presentation at GSA!

05/16/2022

From Earlham College CGCE:

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