Wednesday Nite @ The Lab
"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants in the Digital Age: A Look at Charles Van Hise’s Field Notebooks" by Carol McCartney, outreach manager, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Time
7 p.m.
Location
Description
In 1888, Charles Van Hise became divisional chief of the US Geological Survey, housed at UW. Over the next 40 years, USGS published many papers on the geology of the Lake Superior region. The research drew on roughly 450 field notebooks; maps, rock samples, rock thin sections, a specimen catalog; and a book of chemical analyses. In 2011, the UW Digital Collection scanned Van Hise’s notebooks, which are now being digitally linked to all the other the items in the Lake Superior collection.
Cost
Free
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