December 7, 2001

"Amateur Night"
Optical Aacitives
Presentations
Silent Auctions
Door Prizes

SMSI Minutes of December 7, 2001

• James Benko showed examples of termites in Colombian copal.
• Bill Mikuska reviewed pages from The Secret Garden by Richards, X-Radiographic prints of flowers.
• Richard Lee presented colorized snow flake slides from Bentley.
• Art Struss demonstrated through slides the power of PLM in ceiling tile analysis.
• Joseph Barabe showed improved possibilities of infrared photography with a digital camera.
• Bill Mikuska demonstrated some of the optical differences between left and right quartz slices of various thicknesses.

Report submitted by Stan Schmidt