Pictures

  • These apatites have been unjustly imprisoning Helium for millions of years, time to liberate the noble gases!
  • Perhaps the best stadium view in the Big 12?
  • Jim putting the McClure Mtn. Syenite out of it’s misery
  • Gorgeous view with some rocks and canyons in the background
  • We found this lonely Abraham Lincoln impersonator and took him to lunch at Backcountry Pizza
  • The flatirons from south of campus
  • Disgusting scenery in the Alps on the Thermo2014 field trip
  • Field work near Cataract Lake
  • Josh, Kevin Mahan, and Becky scouting sample locations in Big Thompson Canyon
  • “but most people don’t know that the third Bourne movie takes place almost entirely within the timeframe of the second Bourne movie”
  • Nigel Kelly examining the polish on a mount while Collin Sturrock silently judges him
  • Mt. Powell in the Gore Range, Rachel Landman’s field area
  • I asked Wes Weisberg and Aisha Morris to look tough and this is what they gave me, not my fault.
  • Jim, Becky, and Jess Stanley with Mot Blanc in the distance. “Mont Blanc” is french for “looks like Jim’s head”
  • If you visit the TRaIL in February you can enjoy South Month!
  • DIE APATITE DIE! Just kidding, we are gently coaxing the Helium out of this little grain with a diode laser.
  • A view of Grenoble from before the 2014 Thermo field trip
  • Wes Weisberg posing with the McClure Mountain Syenite standard boulder.
  • Rachel Havranek enjoying the crap out of some sweet field work
  • Becky, Bob Jones, and Coleman Hiett sampling in Washington Gulch
  • Josh caught totally unaware and looking very natural and definitely not posed in the field.
  • Our new ICP-MS! That’s inductively coupled plasma, not insane clown posse
  • Thermochronology short course at the African Earth Observatory Network, August 2013
  • Thermochronology short course at the African Earth Observatory Network, August 2013
  • West Spanish Peak
  • “great question, fundamentally Peter Jackson’s biggest mistake was making Frodo the same age as Sam, Merry, and Pippin…..”
  • Jim and Wes about to demolish a few tons of syenite
  • Thermochronology short course at the African Earth Observatory Network, August 2013
  • Becky talks Alpine geology with Peter Van der Beek, Taylor Schildgen, and Ryan Nelson
  • Screen capture from SkyRim or the CU campus after a snowfall?
  • More disgusting Alpine scenery during the Thermo2014 field trip
  • Mills Canyon
  • Becky in the field, Elliot Ridge
  • Beasts the color of winter!
  • Becky presenting in a geochronology short course at GSA 2016
  • Large scale detrital sediment transport experimentation
  • Garden of the Gods
  • Secret meeting of the Thermochronology High Council above what is left of the Mer de Glace
  • Becky and CU undergraduate superstar Coleman Hiett talking exhumation
  • Rachel Landman watching the California Zephyr go through Colorado
  • What is left of the Mer de Glace
  • Ryan and Becky at Boss mine
  • Colorado sunsets can be epic
  • PLASMA! Almost as hot as Miguel Montero in the 2016 playoffs
  • Lon Abbott and Fatima Niazy looking at paleochannels
  • Jim with CU undergraduates Carlton Mueller and Nicole Gonzalez in the Ruby Mountains
  • Wes Weisberg and Aisha Morris looking for outcrops in the Wet Mountains
  • Lon Abbott and Fatima Niazy sampling near paleochannels
  • There’s tree-huggers and then there’s Josh
  • Rachel Havranek and Jacky Baughman bagging yet another peak
  • View of Grenoble before the Thermo2014 field trip
  • Frame from Jim’s upcoming movie, “Bad-ass vegetarians of Colorado”
  • Another amazing Colorado sunset
  • The brand new Alphachron in 2012
  • “let’s watch those highlights again, and this time I want you to pay close attention to Kris Bryant’s exceptional baserunning”
  • Becky in the West Elks considering some potential routes for a quick, lunchtime 50 mile jog.
  • Al thinks he spots another rock! Carrie Meisner and Jim appreciate his expertise.
  • Panoramic view of the West Elks
  • Benson Earth Sciences, home of champions
  • RESESS superstar Fatima Niazy in the field
  • Why is Jacky laughing at the mass spec? No one knows.
  • Lon Abbott and former CU undergrad Noah McCorkel preparing to sample
  • Jim and Wes Weisberg at GSA
  • Superfans Becky and Bill Haimes talking Auburn Football.
  • View from Benson Earth Sciences after a snow
  • Becky with Colin Sturrock, Alexis Ault, and Jess Stanley at Thermo2018.
  • RESESS student Brandt Scott looking at ALL OF THE SAMPLES
  • Near the French-Italy border during the Thermo2016 field trip. Jim was about to switch from speaking one language crappily to speaking an entirely different language even more crappily.
  • View of El Capitan from Rachel Landman’s field area
  • Sometimes erosion is too slow, so you send Josh.
  • The White River Upflit
  • Rachel Landman in the Gores!
  • Fall in Colorado is terrible
  • Josh in the front range taking field notes or composing epic poems, we’re not sure
  • Becky on stage with other thermochronology luminaries at Thermo2014
  • Becky at Thermo2018
  • Thermo2018 group photo!
  • Rod Brown giving Alexis Ault a young scientist award deep in a German cave, you know, normal geologist stuff
  • Nicole Gonzalez, Carlton Mueller, Jim, and Kathy Robinson at a Colorado Professional Geologists meeting winning it all
  • RESESS intern Addison Curtis searching for the Great Unconformity
  • RESESS intern Addison Curtis still searching for the Great Unconformity
  • Sabrina Kainz holding court about Cenozoic uplift in Colorado at GSA2022
  • Scientist pointing to a research poster hanging on a billboard
    Spencer stunning the crowd at GSA talking about, you’ll never guess…..kimberlites.
  • Scientists standing and discussing a poster hanging on a billboard
    The Great Barra Peak talking about the Great Unconformity at a Great meeting
  • 6 superb geologists with Santa Fe at sunset in the background
    Spencer Zeigler, Barra Peak, Jess Stanley, Becky, Alexis Ault, and Jacky Baughman in Santa Fe.
  • eight geologists standing on a rooftop patio with Santa Fe in the background
    The Bouquet! Peter Martin, Jim, Spencer Zeigler, Barra Peak, Jess Stanley, Becky, Alexis Ault, and Jacky Baughman in Santa Fe.
  • Connor-Antonio Diaz, Barra Peak, Sabrina Kainz, Spencer Zeigler, Liam Courtney-Davies, and Jim at the department picnic
  • Celebraing Jim’s 27th birthday with KEY LIME PIE
  • Two scientists working on a noble gas analysis line
    Sabrina Kainz and Spencer Zeigler changing samples on the Alphachron
  • Becky represents EVEN WHILE CAMPING
  • We don’t judge, love is love
  • Liam Courtney-Davies considering switching to study extremophiles
  • You’ll never believe it but this lake has life in it
  • Liam standing in front of a hydrothermal lake in Yellowstone
    Liam in Yellowstone
  • Jim in Yellowstone
  • Spencer and RESESS intern Kaden Berkhahn sampling locally grown, organic, free-range, and gluten-free Colorado kimberlites.
  • High level field work happening here
  • We assume this was on purpose?
  • Sabrina Kainz, with RESESS students Rori Kgoadi and Kaden Berkhahn,along with Spencer, Vanessa Gabel, and Barra in the field allegedly doing geology
  • Posters like this are why we call her Spen-STAR
  • but does your geology have enough PIZZAZZ?
  • Jim’s extensive modeling career includes work for a local cupcake bakery (bald-o in the bottom of the picture)
  • Dr. Peak and unnamed fan.
  • CONGRA DR.BARR!
  • One of the last pictures of Barra before she became Dr. Peak
  • Dr. Peaks hooding!
  • Drs. Flowers and Peak!
  • Spencer and Becky in Yellowknife celebrating Spencer’s student poster award.
  • The Becky Flowers Fan Club annual meeting in Anaheim.
  • Becky and her first Ph.D. student Alexis K. Ault AKA AKA at GSA in Anaheim CA.
  • Woo-hoo!
  • TRaIL’s National Television debut, time to update our IMDB page!
  • Jeff Benowitz and Spencer Zeigler prepare to educate the huddled masses yearning to learn geochronology
  • Spencer’s three minute thesis MASTERCLASS
  • New Cubs fans watching them whoop the Rockies
  • “Our story starts on July 21, 1955, when Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera was born in Rosario, Argentina.”
  • Alexis Ault and Becky at GSA getting more done before sunrise than most people will all day.
  • Jim and Sister Sledge putting the hurt on the Fish Canyon Tuff
  • Jim’s first visit to the famous Tava Injectite! This is one of Jim’s favorite plaids.
  • Spencer and Liam conquer Spencer’s first 14er, La Plata! 14,336 feet, we are still waiting confirmation on their world record ascent time.
  • The Fish Canyon’s Tuff but Becky is much much tougher.
  • Some may worry that overharvesting by lawless thermochronologists will lead to the eventual extinction of the Fish Canyon Tuff but then they remember that the La Garita eruption is one of the largest in geologic history and stop worrying so much.
  • The classic Fish Canyon Tuff sampling location on a beautiful fall afternoon getting DEMOLISHED
  • Becky sledging Fish Canyon Tuff
  • Dr. Peak (L, Ph.D. ’24) and Spencer Zeigler (R) remembering the best gift this holiday season is some (U-Th)/He data in time for AGU.
  • Dave, Liam, Cat, Tyler, Spencer, and Jim at the beginning of the 2025 Bolder Boulder
  • Dave, Becky, Cat, Tyler, Spencer, Liam, and Jim after demolishing the competition in the “Thermochronology Group” division of the Bolder Boulder
  • Spencer, Connor, Cat, Liam, Becky, Jim, and Cullen at the year end BBQ!
  • Drs. Peak, Zeigler, and Courtney-Davies suffering through terrible weather and views to celebrate
  • hEy cHeCk oUt tHe nEw DoCtOr!
  • First meeting of the Dr. Zeigler fan club!
  • Spencer in the last minutes before demanding everyone call her Dr. Zeigler