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Our Evolving Renovations

Monday, August 29, 2022

The Geophysics Lab and nearly all Graduate Student Offices got substantial improvements in terms of furniture. Our thanks go out to the College of Arts and Sciences, specifically Jacob Benson who championed the pursuit of our furniture upgrades, which came from another building on campus.

From Ozzy Osbourne: “Of all the things that went missing during the moves – we miss our minds the most.” “The challenges from the renovation are not a problem for us to solve but rather a paradox for us to continue to manage.”

John Hettle, Facilities Administrator

Then: Geology Building lobby in 2016
Now: The Geological Sciences Building lobby is more inclusive
Geophysics - before and after
New lecture room - used to be GY 126
Then: Room 103.  Now: The former break room is a student gathering space

New Spaces, New Intentions

The lobby and the lobby displays have undergone dramatic transformation.

With a new, more inclusive building, we take a different approach to design and content for the displays.

For instance, here is the Work Mineral Collection display from ~1960 (left) to 2014 (right).
Now that display is an invitation to explore EAS content and courses on extreme weather.
Then: Here is the display on mammal fossils from ~1960 to 2021.
Now: This display features a walk through the mineralogy of cell phones!
Then: The corner display held more examples of the Work Mineral Collection ~1960-2014.
Now: Paleoclimate (working in deep time). The first in a series of displays about EAS research on the climate of the Cenozoic.
The former geologic time display is now all about Climate Change.
The display about fossil plants now describes Geoengineering.
Then: a small seismic station.  Now: a display about GeoHazards.
EAS X377: Paleoanthropology and Geology Field School at Olduvai, Tanzania.  This display invites students to our field studies in Olduvai Gorge.

The invitation to explore EAS research and courses extends into the first-floor hallway.

We work on water.
Fluorescent Minerals: a display featuring minerals that glow under UV light. (work in progress).
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