Wild Walks: Exploring Minerals and Elements in Buildings, Paintings and Sculptures

Humanities Council Award, 2024 Flash Grant Emily C. Wild, Princeton University Library, will offer a new library outreach program to encourage science exploration by way of art and architecture. The grant supports materials learning kits for each attendee participating in classroom and geology walking tours on Princeton’s campus. The workshop will be on two days. Day 1 will be "This Sculpture Rocks!" with classroom instruction and a walking tour of the geology of sculptures on campus. Day 2 will be "Princeton Rocks!" with classroom instruction and a walking tour of the geology of buildings on campus. Each day will include: (1) a one-hour classroom workshop, where attendees will learn how to access print and digital learning material for the discovery of chemical composition and geologic processes involved in the creation of minerals and elements used in buildings, paint pigments, and metal and stone sculptures at the University, and (2) a 30-minute walking tour. grant information online at: https://humanities.princeton.edu/2024/05/31/council-awards-2024-flash-grants/

Meet the Facilitator: Emily C. Wild is the Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian in the Princeton University Library. In 2022, Emily received the Geosciences Information Society’s (GSIS) 2022 Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award for Geosciences Librarianship. Emily has a Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Hartwick College, and a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Rhode Island. She helps library users find and use science and legislative materials, provides bibliographic and data access instruction, as well as develops and presents online and in-person training sessions on topics such as chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere, rock, sediment, and water; crustal geochemistry and geophysics, organic and inorganic chemistry, and trends in use and availability of mineral, energy, and water resources. Prior to working at Princeton University, Emily was a hydrologist and librarian from 1996 to 2018 at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), researching and publishing in the subject areas of water use, groundwater, surface water, coastal waters, saltwater intrusion and water quality. Her past field work experiences include hydrologic and hydrogeologic research in Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as geologic mapping in the Grand Canyon, Arizona; O'ahu, Maui, and Island of Hawai'i, Hawai'i; San Salvador Island, Bahamas; Adirondacks, Catskills, Finger Lakes, and Hudson River, New York; Whaleback Anticline, Pennsylvania; and Green Mountains, Vermont.

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