The Optical Microscopy Laboratory houses 14 Nikon petrographic
microscopes, a multi-viewer Nikon petrographic microscope with stations for
viewing by up to 5 people simultaneously, a petroscope, 8 Prior binocular
stereoscopes, and a digital imaging station that includes a Wild macroscope
and a Nikon trinocular microscope, both interfaced with a Fuji videocamera,
anEpson scanner, a video screen, a color printer, and a computer equipped
with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator software. Images generated by
microscopy can be projected directly via a ceiling-mounted Epson computer
projector.