Recent additions include a digital color image scanner and a computer video interface to a petrographic microscope. The network runs the UNIX operating system which provides an effective scientific environment for modeling and data analysis, and it is connected to Internet, which, together with 3 telephone modems, allows communications and data exchange with other installations worldwide.
Students use the system unrestricted.
Another addition is an IBM-compatible facility of five PCs, used in undergraduate instruction on global change and housed at the Multimedia Learning Center in Kresge Hall. Our three-component, broad band digital seismic station is presently deployed at Midway Island. Geophysical Field Equipment Field instruments include a Worden Master gravimeter, a Barringer proton precession magnetometer and two Soiltest shallow exploration seismographs. The wet chemistry laboratory contains an array of facilities for bulk rock analysis and the determination of the compositions of aqueous solutions. It includes a thirty-element direct current plasma spectrophotometer.