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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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