Our interdisciplinary group, most famous for the Antarctic Expedition of 1930, is housed in the Geology Department and carries on Miskatonic University’s long tradition of influential field research. Our lab is state of the art and includes a mass spectrometer, an electron microprobe facility, a micro CT, and a bank of DNA sequencers. Researchers in our institute have full access to the extensive Rare Maps and Charts collection at Orne Library as well as the University Museum’s unparalleled natural history and ethnographic collections including such important specimens as the melanic moths of the H.M.S. Scorpion’s Oceanographic Survey, the Gardner meteorite, and the Golden Idol of Pachamama. We have a sizable fleet of expedition vehicles fully equipped for travel in the harshest of environments from the mountains of Tibet to the Great Sandy Desert of Australia. Rumors that federal agents seized all of these vehicles as part of an ongoing congressional investigation into Dr. Hale’s alleged misappropriation of millions of dollars in NSF funding are completely false. They only seized our flagship, the R/V Panthalassa, a converted Ton-class minesweeper berthed at Kingsport. There is an injunction preventing the seizure of the rest of the expedition equipment. Also, Dr. Hale has submitted multiple expense reports detailing that the grant funds in question were spent on research involving a way to harness the circuitry of the internet itself to create a temporal transponder able to relay messages between the past and present.