New Publications from Dan Styer, Physics, and Bruce Simonson, Geology

Hassler, S., Biller, S., & Simonson, Bruce. M. (2019). Petrography and sedimentology of the ~2490 ma DS4 impact spherule layer revisited, brockman iron formation (hamersley group, western australia).
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54(10), 2241-2253. doi:10.1111/maps.13223 ER

Wiley Online Library

Simonson, Bruce. M., Beukes, N. J., & Biller, S. (2019). Extending the paleogeographic range and our understanding of the neoarchean monteville impact spherule layer (transvaal supergroup, south africa).
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54(10), 2217-2240. doi:10.1111/maps.13228 ER

American Association of Physics Teachers

Styer, Dan. (2019). Entropy as disorder: History of a misconception. Physics Teacher, 57(7), 454-458. doi:10.1119/1.5126822 ER 

Conference: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, JUL 22-26, 2017
Abstract: "Before reading this essay, go to your kitchen and find a bottle of Italian salad dressing. Get one that's been sitting still for a while at a fixed temperature-that is, one in thermal equilibrium. You'll find an oil-rich layer at the top of the bottle and a vinegar-rich layer at the bottom (see Fig. 1). But think for a moment before spreading it over a delicious salad and eating up. That bottle's in thermal equilibrium, so it's in a state of maximum entropy. Doesn't entropy mean "disorder"? No one would call a stack of 50 pennies and 50 dimes disordered if all the dimes were on the top and all the pennies at the bottom. So why is this salad dressing at thermal equilibrium segregated like an ordered stack of coins?"

Nathaniel Wehr '16 publishes in Scientific Reports, a Nature Research journal

Nate Wehr [photo from oberlin.edu]

We were very pleased to see this publication from Nate Wehr '16 who was on campus in 2018 to present a Biology Seminar on the topic.

Wehr, N. H., Kinney, K. M., Nguyen, N. H., Giardina, C. P., & Litton, C. M. (2019). Changes in soil bacterial community diversity following the removal of invasive feral pigs from a Hawaiian tropical montane wet forest. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 14681. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48922-7

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