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Other Departmental Facilities

• Geophysical Equipment: Students in geophysics benefit from a number of instruments available for laboratory and field -based studies. These include the department's borehole short-period vertical seismograph facility which is capable of detecting earthquakes worldwide, a new GEOMETRICS Stratavisor NZ 12-channel engineering seismograph, a Worden gravimeter, a new GEOMETRICS gradient magnetometer, and a new NILLSON soil resistivity meter.

• High-Quality Microscopes: A variety of student and research microscopes are available for petrographic and paleontological observations. Film and digital cameras are available.

• Digital Imaging and GIS: Digital cameras, 35mm slide scanners, high-quality flatbed scanners, color laser and inkjet printers and a HP DesignJet800 42" wide-carriage plotter are available in the department. A GIS workstation with a large digitizing board, and Surfer, ArcView, and the Kingdom Suite software bundles is avaiable and networked to the plotter.

• Rock Preparation Facilities: The department maintains a well-equipped rock preparation room equipped with cutting, grinding, and polishing equipment suitable for preparing samples for thin-section, microprobe, fluid inclusion, and geochemical analysis.

• Geochemical Sample Preparation Facilities: Complete laboratory facilities needed for preparing fused disk and/or pressed powder samples for X-Ray fluorescence analysis are available in the department. A clean lab supplied with filtered Class-100 air is available for trace-element and isotope geochemical processing.

• Monitor Well Array: Field laboratory exercises for Hydrogeology (GEL 380), Environmental Geochemistry (GEL 402), and Introduction to Geophysics (GEL 372) are enhanced by a monitor well array established with the support of Superior Environmental Corporation. We also have recently acquired a coring maching suitable for installing monitor wells of 15-20-foot depths.

• Departmental Vehicles: Educational and research field trips are facilitated by two, department-owned, fifteen-passenger vans that are shown in the photo below:
314 Brooks Hall, Mt Pleasant, MI 48859 (989) 774-3179