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In 1898, the federal government announced a systematic topographic and geologic survey of Alaska that would include renewed exploration of what became known as the Brooks Range. Alfred Hulse Brooks, the new assistant geologist and head of the
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is named for him. The building housed the university's mining engineering and related programs for several decades, and currently houses their programs and services for
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and defining the patterns of economic geology so important to prospectors and miners. He was appointed geological curator of
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from 1903 to 1924. He is credited with discovering that the biggest mountain range in Arctic
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393:Bulletin; March 1926; v. 37; no. 1; p. 15-48
243:1913 - Received the Malte-Brun gold medal of the
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604:Philomena's SOL Tour: An Alaskan Report by Will
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