Tag: Science
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The plight of Colorado’s ‘ghost of the alpine’: An uncertain future is ahead for this elusive bird
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the summer of 2006, Amy Seglund recently had moved to Colorado to work as a wildlife biologist when she heard a sound she’ll never forget. The sun had not yet risen over the San Juan Mountains when Seglund awoke in her tent. It was…
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New ‘swamp dweller’ discovered in Colorado
In 2016, John Foster was walking around the sandstone countryside that defines northwest Colorado when he stopped at something peculiar ingrained in the rock. It was a fossil — a jaw about an inch long, Foster recalled in a recent news release. “Holy cow,” he thought, “that’s huge.” Not so huge to an untrained eye,…
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Interest picks up for guided hikes at rare lands near Colorado Springs
Despite the heat that lays thick on the unshaded prairie and rock east of Colorado Springs, and despite the gate that keeps the 700-plus acres closed to the general public, people continue to seek Corral Bluffs Open Space. “The first hike of June, I actually had to spread out over two weekends, because I ended…
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Colorado’s hot springs explained: Deep time, deep layers
We soak in Colorado’s hot springs. We feel the sweet relief on body and mind. And we commonly deduce a miracle. Rather, there is a scientific explanation. It’s an explanation dealing with deep time and the deep, subterranean layers of the Earth, where water meets minerals we associate with healing qualities. But we begin in…
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Colorado College students break sound barrier — with a ping-pong ball
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a classroom at Colorado College’s Barnes Science Center on Thursday, several CC students and a small group of observers from the National Society of Professional Engineers watched as the air pressure built inside a…
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‘A 36 million-year-old mystery solved’: Gem reveals secret to Castle Rock’s formation
One spring day last year, Mark Longman was hiking around Castlewood Canyon State Park with questions that mounted with every boulder and rock wall he passed. A career geologist and longtime Denver resident, Longman knew it to be conglomerate rock populating the park near Franktown. He knew the rock at Castlewood to be the same,…
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Caves, hot springs added to Colorado’s list of national natural landmarks
Unusual parts of Colorado’s landscape have joined rare ranks. The U.S Department of Interior has named Glenwood Caverns and Iron Mountain Hot Springs as a combined national natural landmark. The National Park Service currently lists 14 in Colorado, including Hanging Lake also near Glenwood Springs, Garden of the Gods, Roxborough State Park and the Spanish…
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Deep human history the latest focus of research at Corral Bluffs east of Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More scientific knowledge is emerging from a land of curiosity east of Colorado Springs. Findings are still being researched and finalized from a first-of-its-kind archaeological study at Corral Bluffs Open Space, said Matt Mayberry, the city’s cultural services manager. But an initial report offers a…
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50 years of avalanche forecasting in Colorado: A journey of people, technology, nature’s might
For a 14-year-old boy who loved being in the mountains, search and rescue seemed like a fine opportunity. And so there Dale Atkins was in the winter of 1974, strapped to wooden snowshoes with that rawhide webbing, trudging up a slope near Guanella Pass. “The first mission I went on was an avalanche search,” Atkins…
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Au naturel: The forces at work behind Colorado’s famed powder
When you’re deep in powder and sailing down a mountainside in what is a quintessential Colorado moment, you’re paying no mind to whatever science you have to thank for the light, fluffy stuff beneath your skis. It can be good to take a breath and show some love for the forces at work. Here we…