Catastrophe at the Arizona Geological Survey

The State of Arizona has decided to eviscerate the Arizona Geological Survey. Help, if you can:

We must vacate our State offices in Tucson by June 30. We will move to the former Arid Lands building east of the UA campus. We will go from 10,600 square feet to about 2,600 square feet, a reduction of about 75%.

The Arizona Experience store will be closed. Watch for news about our going out of business sale.

The Tucson scientific-technical library which is open to the public, is being reduced by ~75% to preserve the most critical materials. The UA libraries have been invited to examine our holdings to see if they want anything. If we find the resources in time, we hope to move priority volumes for which we will have no space, to the mineral museum in Phoenix. Whatever we cannot save will be made available to the community.

The State of Arizona has disavowed any responsibility for moving files, furniture, or staff, either in Phoenix or Tucson, saying that is the duty of the agency. Unfortunately, since this is the end of the fiscal year and none of this was budgeted, we have few remaining funds to pay for the move. We are working on options to move our assets before we have to dispose of them.