All are networked within the department and connected to the university network backbone and the Internet. All machines are new within the last two years. An additional 13 new Macintosh computers are reserved for undergraduate classes but may be available for after class general use. For teaching use, the department has a notebook computer and portable computer projector system. In addition, most of the lecture halls on campus contain built-in multimedia units and computers with network connections.
Departmental printers are accessible from all computers.
In addition, the department has color flatbed scanners, a slide scanner and a slide maker. Software for image processing, programming, and data analysis is available in addition to popular office and presentation software. Digital still and video cameras are available as well as image processing and video editing software. All graduate students and any undergraduate who requests one are provided accounts on the departmental computers and storage space for personal web pages and research. Individual faculty maintain substantial additional computational facilties especially the hydrogeology and mantle processes groups.