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Wallace Building – Environment, Earth, and Resources

Home to the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, the Wallace Building –named for the UM’s first professor of geology and mineralogy – houses programs such as earth sciences, environmental studies and geography.

Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie

Named for a former Professor Emeritus and paleontological researcher, this museum in the Wallace Building features dinosaur skeletons, fossils, seismographs and over 7,500 mineral samples from the Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Minerology.

Entrance of the Wallace building, an industrial style building with green glass and exposed supports. Concrete steps lead to the front entrance, and several bicycles are locked up outside.
Students analyzing rock samples along a long desk.
Two researchers sitting on a small boat in a large lake. One of them lowers a sample basket into the water.
Two large dinosaur skeletons in the Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie, in front of a glass display case containing many fossils and mineral samples.
Four vehicles with researchers parked on the side of a road during an intense storm with black clouds and lightning.
Four arctic researchers analyze technical equipment at night in the snow, with a large ship in the background.
A group of students on a study trip look at layers of sediment on the side of a cliff.
Three researchers wearing hip waders stand talking in knee deep water.