Shaun
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Shaun Hardy retired in 2023 after serving 34 years as Broad Branch Road campus librarian and unofficial archivist and historian of EPL. He currently pursues research on the history of science and assists with special projects in the EPL Archives.
Hardy was honored with the Carnegie Institution’s Service to Science Award in 2012 and the Geoscience Information Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2016. He holds degrees in geological sciences and physics from the University of Rochester and library and information studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Louis Bauer, DTM’s founding Director, was an eclipse veteran. In May 1900, four years before the Department was established, Bauer organized the first systematic observations aimed at detecting geomagnetic effects of a solar eclipse.
DTM’s esteemed librarian, Shaun Hardy, received the Geoscience Information Society’s 2014 Best Paper Award at their annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 21 October 2014.
Shaun Hardy, librarian at the DTM/Geophysical Laboratory Library of Carnegie Science, is the recipient of the 2016 Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award from the Geoscience Information Society (GSIS).
Media & Recorded Talks
A History of Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus
Shaun Hardy presents "From Outpost to Icon: A Century of Science at Broad Branch Road"
A History of Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus
Shaun Hardy presents "From Outpost to Icon: A Century of Science at Broad Branch Road"