2018-2019 Geology News Archive

Rowan Lockwood displays a fossilized oyster shell

For Chesapeake oysters, the way forward leads back…back through the fossil record

Joseph McClain | November 20, 2019

Oysters once dominated the ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the Bay to return to full ecological health without restoring Crassotrea virginica to its glory days of the Chesapeake’s apex filterer.

Where there’s smoke, there’s flooding: W&M team studies geology of wildfires

Adrienne Berard | February 23, 2018

The most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history began on Sept. 6, 2010. James Kaste, associate professor of geology at William & Mary, teamed up with an undergraduate geology major to study the floods that followed it.