The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | May 14, 2009
University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral candidate Mary Ellen Benson’s research is in the news at Boulder’s Nanomaterials Characterization Facility. Diatoms may someday play a role in microelectronics and other nanotechnological devices by growing nano-scale structures. The trick is getting the diatoms, a type of microscopic algae, to build the right structures. Read more about [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 19, 2008
The ancestors of these modern marine diatoms coexisted with the dinosaurs. Photo Credit: Prof. Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University, USA University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student Mary Ellen Benson, M.S., gave a talk about her doctoral research at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) on February 7. Benson’s talk, titled [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | February 12, 2008
Read former Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument intern J.J. Huie’s full article in the Spring 2008 Friends newsletter! With Deep Roots in Colorado: The Ponderosa Pine by J.J. Huie I like running in Colorado when the sound of my breathing is drowned out by a wind so violent it causes the arms of the ponderosa [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | October 9, 2007
It’s hard to forget the eerie sound of an American bull elk bugling–the sound is almost completely unlike a bugle, but rather a high, unearthly wail. Elk bugling is a common sound at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in the fall, when elk rut (seek mates). American elk (Cervus canadensis*), which once numbered 10 million [...]
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. | August 16, 2007
Park staff, particularly Student Conservation Association interpretive intern Lindsey Stecker (Boston University) and Chief Ranger Rick Wilson, have been working hard to control the spread of sweetclover this summer.
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Friends of the Park group supporting Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in its mission to protect and interpret the park's resources for future generations.
