Snee Hall, Cornell's rock garden, William Snee, EAS photos

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Emeritus Professors Jack Bird (left) and Bill Bassett (right) display the gold nugget which was donated back to the Museum by Paul Heasley, nephew of Katherine Snee. Snee requested that the gold specimen be returned to the Heasley Museum after her death (2001) to be held there as a memorial to the Snee family. Photo by Frank DiMeo, University Photography

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Sr. Research Associate Maura Weathers (CCMR) demonstrates the sediment transport to visiting Cub Scouts. Far right: Prof. Emeritus Muawia Barazangi explains the seismograph to visiting students.

Happy 25th Birthday Snee Hall!

Snee Hall was dedicated on October 8, 1984! Happy 25th Snee Hall!

Snee Hall - Geological Sciences

Cornell University's Snee Hall Snee Hall, completed in 1984, houses the Department of Geological Sciences. A campus map shows its location. The building honors William E. Snee and his family, who provided the Department its home. At the back of the building, nestled in a grove of trees, the Snee Hall Rock Park—one of four rock parks made possible by the generosity of Gertrude and Meyer Bender—provides a quiet place to sit. The rocks were collected from New York State and adjacent regions. Two of the other rock parks are located in the front of Thurston Hall in the Engineering Quad; the fourth rock park is located at the Center for Jewish Living. Printed guides to the Snee and Thurston Rock Parks are available to those visiting Snee.

The building designed in the early 1980's by Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning Professor Mario Schack, is distinguished by a four story high, glass-ceilinged atrium, an open space filled with light.

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Snee Hall houses state-of-the-art facilities for isotope geochemistry, high-pressure mineral physics, and as part of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, X-ray, microprobe, and electron microscopy. Snee also is home to a wide array of specialized computation clusters and workstations. Cornell is recognized as a pioneer in the manipulation, use, and visualization of large digital data sets.