Scientific Displays
University of Minnesota || John T. Tate Hall
Meteorites Display
The Meteorites display case for the Earth & Environmental Sciences department welcomes students to Tate Hall! Students can read about how our solar system and planet Earth came to be, from the cosmic to the elemental scale. The display case featuring the building blocks of our planet faces a similar display for the Physics Department, highlighting the connection between matarials of Earth and rock bodies far beyond.
This display features samples from the UMN Meteorites collection:
University of Minnesota || John T. Tate Hall
Diamond Display
The giant ‘ball and stick’ model for diamond, created for the OSA ‘JEWELS x Northrup’ collaboration, has found its home in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Department in the Tate Hall atrium. Together with its new best friend ‘Uinta’ the Utahceratops fossil cast, they form the ESCI department’s welcoming committee, providing a small but fascinating glimpse into what we do in the department and will soon be joined by a lake sediment core display to their right (Dinos, Minerals, Climate studies, and so much more!)
University of Minnesota || John T. Tate Hall
Earth & Environmental Sciences Teaching Labs (180)
Many ESCI labs are take in Tate 180, a multi-use teaching lab feature microscopes, rock samples, and other tools for hand-on lab activities. With this new, in-progress display, we feature samples and materials used in each of the labs, visually bringing the ESCI curriculum outside of the lab and to the attention of potentially interested students.