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The department moved to its present quarters in 1953, shared with the Biology Department. The latter moved to new facilities in 1968. In 1976, the Atmospheric Science Group moved to the 12th floor of the Business Administration Building. By the end of the century, some of the Atmospheric Science program occupied space at Reese Center (the former Reese Air Force Base). The Seismological Building was constructed in 19XX; it fell into disrepair in the 1990’s, and the University razed the facility in 2000.
Look closely and you'll see our current Pevehouse Professor of Petroleum Geology & Carbonate Petrology, Dr. George Asquith along with other new inductees into Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the Geology Honor Society.

1 March 1960.

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