Very, Very Well Done, Geoff! The "virtual tour" portion is especially
nice, not to mention extremely educational for the initiated as well as
uninitiated.
Definitely something for everyone -- children of all ages, myself included!
I highly recommend everyone who loves this hobby/passion (and who doesn't
:-) ) check out UNM's Institute of Meteoritics website!
Again, Geoff, Kudos to you, and high praises for a superb job!!!
Mal
At 07:03 PM 5/23/2007 -0700, Notkin wrote:
Dear Listees:
Greetings all. I've been somewhat quiet on the List these past few months,
but I have a good excuse:
It is with great pleasure that I can today announce the completion of a
major new website for the Meteorite Museum at the University of New
Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics.
The University maintains an excellent small museum on campus, and I know
some of you have visited it. Plans for a new physical museum have been
drawn up, and the first step towards achieving that goal was the creation
of a modern, interactive website. The site includes the following:
- A comprehensive animated Virtual Tour of the educational material which
the new museum will feature. This is a wonderful resource and includes
detailed information on the Solar System, comets, asteroids, chondrites,
differentiated meteorites, impact craters, the Moon, Mars and a great deal more
- Architect's plans for the new museum
- An extensive gallery of new, original meteorite photographs from the IOM
collection
- A gallery of thin section photographs
- A guide to New Mexico meteorites
- Features on meteorite identification, teacher activities, and microscopes
I had the privilege of working closely with Dr. Rhian Jones and Dr.
Barbara Cohen at UNM during the concept, design, and construction of this
site. Many of the best ideas came from them, and they contributed to the
genesis of the site in all areas. In particular, Rhian devised the text
and content for the Virtual Tour and Barbara designed many of the banners
and provided photos, graphics, as well as concepts for the site structure.
My senior design assistant Karl Covington executed the animation, as well
as image rendering, design, and typesetting, and the final product
benefited greatly from all their efforts.
I'd like thank Dr. Jones, Dr. Cohen and their colleagues for the
opportunity to serve as art director for this fascinating project and I
hope you will all enjoy the new site.
Here it is: http://epswww.unm.edu/meteoritemuseum/
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Notkin
Stanegate Studios
Aerolite Meteorites
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