Bob Raynolds is a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and an adjunct faculty member in the geophysics department at Colorado School of Mines. His lectures focus on the impact of climate change on Colorado’s ecology and water resources of the Colorado River system. Raynolds has studied comparable rocks in the Denver Basin that record the uplift of the Laramide Front Range and contain precious groundwater. He has worked in the Rift Valley in East Africa since 1970 and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI). He has taught as a Fulbright Professor at the Center for Excellence in Geology at Peshawar University in Pakistan and at Dartmouth College. He is the author of publications on remote sensing, stratigraphy, sedimentation, volcanology, hydrogeology, and earth science education. Bob has done field work in Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, Pakistan, Nepal, and Tibet.

He has compiled the invaluable archive, Turkana Stratigraphy, used by any and all paleoenvironment researchers working in the Great Rift Valley.