Pictures

Apatites ready to be measured

Across from the CU TRaIL is Folsom Field with perhaps the best stadium view in College Football

Jim putting the McClure Mountain Syenite out of its misery

Majestic beauty with a canyon in the background

Colin, Cailey Condit, Rachel Havranek, Jaclyn Baughman, and Nigel Kelley eating deep fried things at Backcountry Pizza

View of the flatirons from Table Mesa (yes we know that means table table)

Horribly unscenic lunch stop in the Alps during the Thermo2014 pre-conference field trip

Field work near Cataract Lake

Josh, Becky, and Kevin Mahan in Big Thompson Canyon discussing field strategies

Jim still giving lab tours in 2013

Nigel and Colin examining a zircon mount

Mt. Powell in the Gore Range, Rachel Landman’s field area

Wes and former RESESS director Aisha Morris trying their darnedest to look tough

Jim, Becky, and Jess on the Aiguille du Midi, with Mont Blanc in the backgound, during the Thermo2014 field trip

Join us in February and experience Stout Month at the Southern Sun!

Sample being heated and degassed in the Alphachron

Another view of Grenoble at sunset at the Thermo2014 conference

Wes posing with the world famous McClure Mountain Syenite boulder

Rachel suffering through a terrible field experience

Becky, Bob Anderson, and Coleman looking for samples near Gothic Mountain

Definitely not a posed shot of Josh

Our new Agilent 7900 Quadrupole ICP-MS

AEON Short Course group photo

Becky relaxing after the AEON thermochronology short course

West Spanish Peak

Jim giving lab tours during the 2013 GSA short course

Wes and Jim sampling the McClure Mountain Syenite

Jess relaxing after the AEON thermochronology short course

Becky discusses Alpine geology with Peter van der Beek, Taylor Schildgen, and Ryan McKeon during the Thermo2014 field trip

View from the lab in winter

More disgusting Alpine scenery during the Thermo2014 field trip

Mills Canyon

Becky in the field, Elliot Ridge

Beasts the color of winter. We had hoped to train them as field assistants, it didn’t work.

Becky discussing applications of He thermochronology at a 2014 EarthScope Geochronology Short Course

Large scale detrital sediment transport experimentation

Garden of the Gods south of Boulder

Secret lunch meeting of the International Thermochronology Inner Circle

Becky and former CU undergrad Coleman Hiett discussing Rocky Mountain geology

Rachel and the California Zephyr in Gore Canyon

The Mer de Glace, or what is left of it.

Ryan and Becky at Boss mine

Sunset over Longs Peak, the northernmost 14’er in the Rockies

PLASMA!

Lon and Fatima sampling

Jim with CU undergrads and research associates Carlton Mueller and Nicole Gonzalez in the Ruby Mountains

Former RESESS Intern Wes Weisberg and former RESESS director Aisha Morriss in the Wet Mountains

Lon Abbott and RESESS intern Fatima Niazy sampling near paleochannels

Some people hug trees, Josh hugs rocks

Rachel and Jacky are very excited to be on top of Pikes Peak!

View of Grenoble at sunset just prior to Thermo2014

Bighorn Sheep with the Presidential Peaks in the background

If you catch a sunset in Colorado you can understand where the state colors come from

The ASI Alphachron He extraction and analysis line in all of its majesty

Jim discussing thermal modeling during a short course in 2013

Becky contemplating the geology of the West Elks

Jim with Carrie Meisner and Al McGrew discovering amazing things in the Ruby Mountains

Panoramic view of the West Elks

Benson Earth Sciences, home of the TRaIL!

RESESS intern Fatima Niazy in the field hunting for paleochannels

Jacky and Colin laughing at the mass spectrometer

Lon Abbott and former CU undergrad Noah McCorkel preparing to sample

Jim and Wes at GSA in 2017

Becky and Bill Hames likely discussing Auburn Football

The flatirons in winter

Let’s see if anyone notices that I snuck this picture into the album

Becky, Colin, Alexis Ault, and Jess Stanley during a field trip at Thermo2018

RESESS Intern Brandt Scott looking for apatites

More disgusting Alpine scenery during the Thermo2014 field trip

View of El Capitan from Rachel Landman’s field area

When natural erosion is too slow, send Josh

The White River Upflit

Rachel Landman with the Eagle’s Nest (Gore Range) in the background

Fall in Colorado is terrible

Josh taking copious field notes

Becky participating in a round table discussion on (U-Th)/He dating during Thermo2018

Becky giving an invited talk at Thermo2018

Colin, Becky, and Jim amongst hundreds of thermochronologists from around the world at Thermo2018

CU TRaIL alum Alexis Ault (right) being awarded the Charles and Nancy Naeser award for early career thermochronolgists at Thermo2018!

From left to right, Undergraduate TRaIL’ers Nicole Gonzalez and Carlton Mueller, Jim, and TRaIL M.Sc. graduate Kathy Robinson at the May 1 RMAG awards luncheon.

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