Facilities

The Puppet Lab

The puppet lab came into our posession when Professor Aurora Valentinetti retired, and the Department of Drama stopped teaching puppetry. Oddly enough, the lab has retained its name after moving twice. We could not conceive a better name. The lab (including adjoining control room) contains:

Computers

• one old Sun workstation functioning as a file server and plant stand
• six PC workstations (3 double-core) with double screens
• four linux fileserver/webserver machines
• a 64-bit IMS server
• a heavy duty SDE server (tucked away in the soundproof server room)
• dual-core ArcGISserver Server
• three linux ISIS interplanetary workstations
• many terabytes total disk space, including RAID5 and RAID6
• 3' × 4' digitizer with cordless puck
• 11" × 17" scanner (and a big scanner downstairs)
• 8mm 14 mbyte tape drive
• good B&W and color laser printers
• 13"x19" color inkjet printer.
• an old laptop suitable for presentations
• 3D blinker glasses

Software

• full suites of compilers
• full ArcGIS package (and dongles for laptops)
• ERDAS Imagine and ENVI image-processing packages
• Matlab
• Silcast software for rectifying and building DEMs from ASTER images
• Adobe photoshop and illustrator

Other assets

• 20 map drawers
• portable optical stereo plotter
• two stereoscopes
• light table
• overhead projector and screen
• conference table
• personal storage space for students
• Harvey and Amir will answer your questions

Other Facilities

Facilities include a wet lab for sample & sediment analysis (e.g. seiving, wetting, drying, litho-sectioning) plus an experimental bean-slope flume. There is a storage room for field gear, which includes two laser assisted total stations (fast accurate surveying of field sites), a GPS system, laptop computers, digital range finders, digital inclinometers, pygmy & full scale current meters, assorted data loggers, pressure transducers, water level indicators, tools, and hardware.