Donors

We would like to say thank you to all of our generous donors. The museum would not be what it is today without your generous contributions.

Donor Funded Projects 

Reimer Family Gallery

Jim Reimer and his family are major benefactors of the Earth Sciences Museum at the University of Waterloo. The Reimer Family Gallery is currently being established in the Museum. The Gallery will consist of four parts: The "Reimer Family Mineral Collection", the “Groundwater-Driven Mineralization" display, the “Petrified Wood" display and the "Laboratory of Life" exhibit. Presently, staff at the Earth Sciences Museum are developing the Museum’s “Laboratory of Life” exhibit which will feature magnificent specimens from a major new Canadian fossil discovery.

Beyond Walls

We would like to recognize and thank Equitable Life of Canada for sponsoring our current project which will bring the Earth Sciences Museum beyond our physical walls by making three augmented reality apps available to anyone around the world. Two displays: Puzzle Pit and Planning Paradise and their associated apps will be available to the public in January of 2018.

"Mastodon: Life, Death, and Discovery" Augmented Reality Display

"Mastodon: Life, Death, and Discovery" is a permanent display depicting an ice age mammal, a mastodon, trapped in a North American bog. The designed mural by Ontario artist Mark Rehkopf consists of mastodon bone casts reaching out into the museum’s third floor atrium. Visitors of the Earth Sciences Museum are able to view, through augmented reality, a time sequence synopsis of the mastodon when it was first stuck in the peat land and then it being fossilized and lastly unearthed by natural processes.

This project was completed in October 2014, and was made possible by generous contributions and donations from the following organizations and individuals:

Mining Tunnel Project

We would like to recognize and thank the donors to our Cobalt Mining Tunnel:

Drill Bits

All bits are used in some aspect of oil and gas extraction. The small bits are used to drill seismic holes. The buttons on the bits are made of tungsten carbide. The small bit at the left, front is a diamond coring bit.

These drill bits were donated to the Earth Science Museum by:

• Security DBS Calgary - Christian Catrinuscu, Engineer: four button bits

• Christensen Mining Products - Don Kretzel, General Manager: diamond coring bit

• Walker McDonald Bits - Ivor Williams, Warehouse Manager: tricone bicore and percussion bits

A special thanks to Jerry Pilny, University of Waterloo Earth Sciences Alumnus who worked with the companies to arrange the donations.

Below is a list of our donors in alphabetical order. This list will be updated on a regular basis.