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STEAM Cafe: Deep Science at America’s Underground Laboratory

Presented by Dr. Jaret Heise, science director at the Sanford Underground Research Facility As the deepest underground laboratory in the United States, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead hosts world-leading experiments and gives South Dakota’s university students and faculty members the opportunity to participate in this cutting-edge science. Dr. Jaret Heise, the science director at SURF, will present an overview of the science taking place a mile beneath our feet. SURF’s exceptional underground location enables physicists to look for faint signals that hint at dark matter and other particles or forces we don’t yet understand — things that lie beyond the current Standard Model of particle physics. But the drifts and caverns at SURF offer research opportunities for more than just physicists; biologists trek these routes in search of microbial life that has adapted to harsh, hot underground homes under great pressure and geologists head into the tunnels for unparalleled access to deep rock. The facility is also a proving ground for engineering research. Mines students, graduates and faculty are participating in many of SURF’s experiments. Dr. Heise will discuss the advantages to conducting these experiments in the former Homestake Gold Mine and what researchers are hoping to discover.