Ian Nesbitt

Ian Nesbitt '13 is a rising junior Geosciences major and Nordic Team member who loves the outdoors. He can often be seen skiing, cycling, making geoscientific calculations, driving Nordic team vans, driving the WOC van, running, or inhabiting Schow's GIS lab.

Steam Tunnels

Ian claims he is Williams' most knowledgable student, past or present, on the legendary steam tunnel system that exists beneath many centralized buildings on campus, having done a project on them in each of two separate GEOS classes. The tunnels exist mainly in order to allow Facilities greater access to various valve shutoff points, but also exist to provide better access to the system were something to go wrong. Possessing maps, pictures, and knowledge of entrances, Nesbitt claims to use his powers only for good, citing the now-famous Stan Lee quote, "with great power comes great responsibility." However he will not hesitate to tell what there is to know about the tunnels if asked. Ian has traversed most of the tunnels legally, after taking an OSHA course on confined space safety, as required by campus Environmental Safety policies and OSHA laws.

Photos

• Clark - West Underneath the manhole cover to the northwest of Clark Hall, looking east towards West Hall.
• Clark - Bronfman — Underneath the West Side of Clark Hall, looking south towards the ladder down to the basement mechanical room in Bronfman.
• Service Ladder — Looking down the sevice ladder into Bronfman basement mechanical room.
• Sage - Chapin Tunnel — A strange and isolated tunnel connection between the Sage Hall mechanical room and a similar entity in the basement of Chapin. This rather blurry photo was taken from the Sage mechanical room looking ENE towards the Chapin mechanical room. Tom Mahar from Facilities believes this isolated tunnel was created in order to more easily shut Paresky off from the rest of the grid, though curiously no member of Facilities is completely sure why it is there.
• Sawyer The Sawyer mechanical room is located directly under the east entrance on the Sawyer side. Seen here is the large steam connection that heats the building. Note that no tunnel exists here, despite the North Tunnel's close proximity to the building (a few feet away).
• Rink Thermal Image, taken 05/09/2011 — a thermal air image taken from a Robinson R22 helicopter on May 9, 2011 of the Lansing-Chapman Rink complex. The photo shows a steam line’s thermal signature on the ground, resulting from damaged insulation. Obtained from the Sustainability office (Todd Holland).¹

Maps

The following is a paraphrase by Ian from his final paper for GEOS 214 as a disclaimer to those trying to access maps for illegitimate reasons.

"Though I do have maps in my possession, I prefer not to give them out unless I receive written need. This is not because I like keeping y'all down. This is because Dave Boyer would probably bring all of Security down on my head if I did share this information. Please email me at imn2 in order for me to determine if you really do need these maps."²

More Information

For more information, photos, and maps (pending Ian's judgement of the reasons you want to access this information), email imn2.

Sports

Ian is a varsity member of the Nordic Ski Team (Willipedia page, team blog) at Williams, and a regular racer for the Cycling Team (Willipedia page, team blog). Ian has athletic prowess approaching the level of a greek god. He has been known to get distracted while biking to Schow and end up in Boston only slightly out of breath.

WSO

Ian is a WSO root user, which means that all your internets are belong to him.

Contact Info and Public Domains

In order from least nerdy to nerdiest:

• email unix: imn2
• facebook.com/iannesbitt
• WSO facebook page
• WSO email: inesbitt (at) wso.williams.edu
• twitter.com/iannesbitt
• Google+
• WSO user website

References

1. Ian Nesbitt, Steam Project Layer Descriptions. May 15, 2011.
2. Ian Nesbitt, Williams College Steam Tunnels. Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation. May 15, 2011.