Tag: Science
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Glowing aspen? A Colorado student’s curious report
July 25, 2019. A warm night in the woods of northern Colorado. This is where Jacob Bopp’s strange tale begins. From a near distance, “it was like the subtle headlights of a car,” he recalled. That could not be right, he thought. He got closer and later wrote of what he saw: “A soft, green…
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Sudden aspen decline: The phenomenon sweeping Colorado’s favorite tree of fall
Last week, Julie Korb was hiking around the mountains of Telluride when she came by an unfortunate sight. It was an aspen tree, not one yet showing off the shiny leaves we seek this time of year. Maybe they would never show. “I saw the orange hue on the bark,” said Korb, who has researched…
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Hope hops: Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
One morning last week, a team of scientists and conservationists in long, rubber boots embarked into a wetland of southern Wyoming, armed with containers of toads. They included Jeff Baughman, representing Colorado Springs’ Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Like the others, he was careful where he stepped. “There might be toads from the previous season out there…
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Chile pepper history has been rewritten by fossils found in Colorado
One afternoon in 2021, a postdoctoral researcher and undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder walked into the campus museum not knowing they were about to change the history of the chile pepper. It was to be a simple introduction to the collections, recalled the researcher, Rocío Deanna. “I wanted to show him the…
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Colorado school case study highlights need for collaboration in turnaround work
When Centennial Elementary in Greeley was facing state intervention in 2016, Superintendent Deirdre Pilch, who was new at the time, decided to try something different. She surprised then-Principal Anthony Asmus by letting him decide how he wanted to turn things around at the school. “She backed us up,” recalled Asmus. “We had the choice for…
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Agilent Technologies begins work on Frederick manufacturing facility
Biomedical life sciences company Agilent Technologies moves forward with its new Frederick facility Thursday, an expansion that will eventually bring some 160 new high-paying jobs to northern Colorado. It’s so important to Gov. Jared Polis’ goal of having Colorado’s life sciences industry thrive the way the state’s aerospace industry has flourished, he’ll travel the hour…
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CSU Spur opens Hydro building to school groups, public
CSU Spur opened their cutting edge Hydro building completing their ‘Spur’ campus earlier this month. Over
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Fossil hunter discovers T. Rex skeleton, brings home to Woodland Park dinosaur museum
On the last day of an expedition to fossil fields in the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota this summer, fossil hunter Anthony Maltese discovered the partial remains of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, scattered under soft mud in an area his team had been excavating, on and off, for the last 30 years. The team…
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Research continues surrounding mysterious, ‘extraordinary’ creation of Hanging Lake
Researchers are getting closer to understanding the complex, mysterious phenomenon that creates one of the most iconic scenes in Colorado’s mountains. “We really don’t know much about the specific sources of water that spills from Spouting Rock above Hanging Lake,” Eagle-Holy Cross District Ranger Leanne Veldhuis explained in a recent news release. The 2020 Grizzly Creek fire and…
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Governor’s Citizenship Medal: Lockheed Martin honored for community impact
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lockheed Martin employees have helped restore trails in state parks, manufactured personal protective equipment for people working on the front lines of the pandemic and provided online lessons in science, technology, engineering and math to Colorado students. The aerospace company will receive a Governor’s Citizenship Medal during a ceremony this week in…