The deepest underground laboratory in the United States just finished an overhaul of a wooden mine shaft that transports personnel and supplies nearly a mile underground.
The scholars, who come from across the state of South Dakota, will take part in a once-in-a-lifetime, all-expense-paid exploration of the modern world of STEM research.
Marty Two Bulls Jr., the 2024 Artist in Residence at SURF and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, led a land art engagement of the traditional Lakota practice of “azilya,” at SURF.
Straub will oversee all surface and underground operations at SURF, the hoists and shafts, underground laboratory spaces, buildings, infrastructure, and the complex network of tunnels that make up America’s Underground Lab.
