Macquarie University teaching collection

Macquarie University is reducing its stored rock samples, largely due to the University’s greatly reduced focus on Geosciences. The key drivers are: (1) other demands on limited storage capacity, and (2) A shift toward retaining only actively curated collections.

Legacy teaching sets, thesis samples, and former staff/student collections must be rehomed or disposed of by the end of this year (2026). What remains will go into skip bins. The research collections will hopefully be rehomed , but Nathan Daczko is trying to find new homes for former teaching samples that are no longer used by me at Macquarie.

To maximise the potential for rehoming teaching samples, the School of Natural Sciences is generously supporting a part-time technical staff to help and will also cover the cost of shipping large volumes of rock to other campuses that might want them.

There is a 155-page pdf file with images of boxes of rocks. This will be posted on the AUGEN web pages, so please check it out if you are interested in acquiring new teaching samples.

For more details, please contact Nathan Daczko (nathan.daczko@mq.edu.au) or Michelle Moxey (michelle.lambert2@hdr.mq.edu.au)