History of PAL

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The Physical Acoustics Laboratory (PAL) dates from 1997. That year, Bob Kranz and John Scales wrote their first proposal for hardware at Colorado School of Mines. They got a big boost when the Army Research Office funded this proposal the next year and bought the first lasers. The PAL name didn't appear until about a year or two later. Around the same time, Kasper van Wijk was a John's PhD student, performing some of the first measurements in the lab.

Since those early days, Kasper graduated, then was a postdoc and research professor at CSM. As of 2006, John Scales moved to the Physics department and is running what is now called the Mesoscopic Physics Laboratory. Kasper took a position in the department of Geosciences at Boise State University where he continues the Physical Acoustics Laboratory.