Fermilab 50th Anniversary

I was on the back of a golf cart when I took this picture when I was inspecting the F Sector conversion from ion pumps to turbo pumps shutdown work in the Tevatron tunnel.

The 2017 Division of Particles and Fields meeting is held this year at Fermilab beginning July 31 through August 4, 2017. Here Keisuke Yoshihara gives a 10-minute talk on particle physics at today's start of the DPF meetings.

Blooming American lotus and a glimpse of Wilson Hall

Flowers of the compass plants along the path between IARC and Wilson Hall on a beautiful Sunday evening in July.

A Saturday morning gardening, organic and mostly heirloom.

The one in the front is a cryogenic magnet, and the two behind are helium refrigerators. They caught my eye when I walked into Lab B.

Early morning light on the Ramsey Auditorium and Wilson Hall

Looking like a leaf in the middle of Blackhawk Boulevard in the morning is dangerous business! This one was helped reaching closer to Dusaf Pond.

ICARUS is now at Fermilab!

Feathers and egg

This caterpillar decided to cross Main Ring Road during lunch. We carried him to safety.

A lovely site at Aspen East on a beautiful summer's day.

Jim Annis of the Scientific Computing Division points out something interesting in his talk on the LIGO experiment and related cosmological ideas. The audience is undergraduate interns at Fermilab. The three students in the front, just behind Annis, are Andrea Bryant, Kevin Ingles and Leonardo Rodriguez.

A group of students take some time off from their tour to relax in front of Wilson Hall.

ICARUS heads toward the Neutrino Campus.

Just listen...

At lunch I sat and admired this beautiful barn.

Robert Barger, on left, of the Neutrino Division Technical Support Department and Greg Tatkowski of the Particle Physics Mechanical Department discuss hooking up a temporary Dewar at SiDet.

Underground Utilities

Fermilab intern Marika McGee shows off her new, Fermilab-themed fingernails.

This amphibian visitor was found in the ladies' washroom at SiDet. Cute, isn't it!

Martha Michels, Dave Esterquest and Chuck Kuhn discuss 50th-anniversary plans with first responders.

Trees and blackbirds in golden light

Wilson Hall At Dusk

Michael McGee is showing off his operator's t-shirt during the Operator's Reunion Party. Marty Murphy and Nick Gurly designed and drew the design on the back of the shirt.

Multiple generations of operators gathered at Kuhn barn for a reunion pig roast on Saturday, July 22. Over 100 current and former operators attended, along with their respective families. The unique nature of the accelerator operators' job — the long hours, rotating shift work, considerable training regimen, working weekends and holidays, and being with the same crew for months or years — creates a camaraderie rare in most other fields. This was evident by the great distances traveled for some who attended. Former ops came from Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, California and Illinois. Our motto is "Once an Operator, Always an Operator." A great time was had by all.

Blooming flower near ring road

Anne Mary Teichert talking to visitors during the Art Gallery tour of "A Lasting Mark: Angela Gonzales at Fermilab."

Cell phone picture of some wildflowers on the side of C-D Road.

Tree branch on a power line off Giese Road.

Approaching severe thunderstorm from the northwest at Wilson Hall

Bo Jaytilaka is a speaker for the Summer Undergraduate Lecture Series. He speaks on scientific computing at Fermilab.

The morning rains left puddles on the water lilies in the Wilson Hall reflecting pond.

A pair of green herons perch near the Main Ring.

Checking out the morning view atop Acqua Alle Funi.

Watching Anne Heavey and Andrew Dalesandro give the Light and Color school presentation in St. Charles.

The LArIAT collaboration

Summer students Arielle Pfeil and Marlene Ortega, left of the picture, and visitor Katie Chennault of Olivet Nazarene University enjoy a lovely summer day outside in the SiDet courtyard.

Linda Valerio gives a talk at the Summer Lecture Series on the engineering of accelerators and does an excellent job.

Osprey chicks ready to fledge

Muon Campus - M5 beamline elements staged for installation. These magnets were originally part of the Antiproton Source.

A damselfly stands on a rock adjacent to the Wilson Hall parking lot.

Sue Quarto and Maredith Stoffel and growing some wonderful produce to share with our coworkers in a few weeks!

Exploring a passageway in the the main ring tunnel near DZero. The Fermilab scientists and engineers in this group are training to become DZero tour guides.

The upcoming Linac Marx modulator has 54 active cells, each of which needs three lengths of fiber optic cable to transmit the charge, fire and status signals. Cutting the cables is easy; keeping each of the 54 sets organized is the tough part.

This thistle is pretty, even if it is a weed. #Mobile Monday

Pond lilies - Outer Ring Road

The old Bubble Chamber on display in the court yard by Lab B

The New York Times crossword puzzle from last Thursday quotes our motto from this year on 4-down, "What's the DIFF?"

Representing Fermilab at the Windmill City Festival in Batavia.

Stuffing name badges for the upcoming DPF Conference at Fermilab from July 31-Aug. 4.

The wildflowers near the Lederman Education Center.

Stan Johnson takes on a controlled blaze during fire extinguisher training, hosted by the Fermilab Fire Department.

Typical assortment of keys needed in a day in the life of an RF Group technician during shutdown.

Gary Smith prepares brats for a summer cookout at the BEG building.

Facing the camera, Ashton Cattenhead of Facilities Engineering Services Section and Joseph McDermott of the Fermilab Natural Areas weed the sustainable plants in front of the IARC building.

The old modulator at Station 2 of the linac is being dismantled so it can be replaced by a new Marx Modulator.

Dr. Mark Pankuch Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center in Warrenville discusses how to engage students in the ideas of Medical Physics with Teacher Research Associate TRAC Sundaram Thirukkurungundi. Pankuch was the lecturer today in the Undergraduate Summer Lecture Series, speaking on the topic "Cancer treatment with accelerators."

From left: Arielle Pfeil, Cory Cotter and Andrea Bryant, three of this year's Fermilab summer students, stop at my desk for a snack.

Kate Sienkiewicz examines the operation of a 3-D printer while touring the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. Meredith Ament, left, looks on.

That little insect never had a chance.

Storm fronts approach the Lederman Science Education Center, with Broken Symmetry in the background.

Looking up Wilson Hall on a sunny morning.

The same old service building from back in January. The green grass has grown and the air is warm, but the sweeping marks on the wall still remain.

A green heron and a great blue heron wait for breakfast to come by.

Xiao Luo, David Caratelli and Kurt Riesselmann sit in the Remote Operations Center West in Wilson Hall and participate via video conference in Neutrino Day 2017 at Sanford Lab in South Dakota. They are explaining the particle tracks that Fermilab's MicroBooNE detector records using the same liquid-argon technology that scientists will use for the 70,000-ton particle detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at Sanford Lab.

Irma Campos and Jose De La O conduct science demonstrations for children at the Fermilab booth at the Railroad Days Festival in West Chicago.

The continuous electrical ramp in the Main Injector orange falls to zero as the 2017 summer shutdown begins. This will be a period of maintenance and upgrades for the accelerator complex.

A beautiful summer sky is reflected in a DZero building window.

Morning fog

Linac power

I like to park by Kidney Pond because it's so picturesque. Yesterday as I got ready to leave, I came upon this heron, and I interrupted this turtle's picnic, apparently. I tried to get a picture of the two together but the turtle was too fast. Yes, really.

Geese, water, flags and Wilson Hall in July

Egrets and ducks on the water close to Fermilab's east gate

Control Room door at CMTF

Egrets and other waterfowl enjoy the clearing made in the cattails at A.E. Sea.

The inside of ROC East, highlighting the CMS artwork on the south wall by Xavier Cortada and Pete Markowitz. The meaning of this artwork can be found at http://uscms.org/roc/display_files/Xavier-HiggsSearch-Credit.html

Two that didn't make it.

Egrets, herons and cranes gather in a new mowed down, marshy area at Fermilab.

Linac accelerator

This is a composite of various firework photos captured from atop Wilson Hall.

Single shot of Batavia fireworks from 13th floor Wilson Hall

Fireworks go off in the distance, with the Feynman Computing Center in the foreground.

The Teachers Research Associates participants for 2017: Jeffrey Breiten, Amanda Whaley, Subdaram Thirukkurungundi, Petar Kesic, Joanne Bader, and Emmanuel Aldana. This program is coordinated by Harry Cheung.

Not for human consumption!

Having fun learning about perspective with the IARC building.

Two coyote siblings having fun.

Morning in July

Heron in the Main Ring pond