Theodore "Ted" Walker

"Top" was an exemplary and inspiring geologist, professor and human being. I love him still.

In 2003, Dave Broughton (grad student at CSM at the time and recently responsible for the discovery of Africa's largest copper deposit, sediment-hosted and redbed affiliated) and I met with Ted at a restaurant in Boulder to talk of redbeds and copper deposits. A single, delightful, fruitful encounter... with such a helpful, delightful professional.
Today, I am citing him (again) while writing my "last gasp" article for Economic Geology, on the association of sediment-hosted copper with...

Ted was a favorite prof of mine and most other geology students at CU. His courses in Sedimentary Petrology and Ground Water were inspiring. He had such enthusiasm in every subject and was so supportive of every grad student. He found ways to provide financial support when I needed it. He and Prof Ed Larson came to Flagstaff, AZ, for the Shootout at the Okay Corral with Gene Shoemaker on the origin of red beds. What a gentleman and a friend and a great debater. The kind of professor that...