Memorial Tributes Volume 25 (2023) / Chapter Skim
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ROBERT J. WEIMER
ROBERT J. WEIMER
Pages 402-409
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While in college, Bob met his life partner, Ruth Adams, a journalism student and campus leader. They married in September 1948 and she became the secret ingredient in Bob's success.
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This Patrick Draw discovery launched a decade of exploration in the Rockies and nationwide, searching for similar kinds of previously unrecognized or ignored stratigraphic traps. Later, in 1973, Bob applied the same stratigraphic concepts to help discover the Spearhead Ranch Field in the southwestern portion of the Powder River Basin in northern Wyoming.
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His industry short courses used cores from the laboratory he established at CSM in 1972 and outcrops in the Golden and Morrison areas. His summer field courses started with Precambrian rocks at Red Rock Park and progressed to the Pennsylvanian Fountain Formation and, in Morrison, the Permian Lyons Sandstone and Lykins Formation.
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[And] we must also get involved with the education of our young people about natural resources by leading field trips and spreading our knowledge into the primary and secondary schools." Bob served as CSM Geology Department chair (1964–69)
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, Panel on Review of the Oil Recovery Demonstration Program of the Department of Energy (1994–96) , and Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Predoctoral Review Panel on Physical Sciences and Mathematics (1999, 2000, 2003)
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Sometimes, at odd moments, one could hear Bob quietly crooning his favorite Louis Armstrong song, "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So." Bob was more than an outstanding geologist: he was a greatly valued friend and colleague to many. He mentored hundreds of geologists in an informal yet effective and lasting way.
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