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DEEP Science Comes to South Dakota
The National Science Foundation chose the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota as the site for a proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. DUSEL experiments will range from astrophysics to the study of life at extreme depths – 8,000 feet underground or deeper. The DUSEL Initial Suite of Experiments Workshop was held April 21-26, 2008. Geoscientists, geomicrobiologists, Physics and engineers, Science Education Researchers, Educators and Curriculum Developers met to plan projects and an Education and Visitor Center and Activities. There were public lectures in Lead, Spearfish and Rapid City.

 

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