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With a nearly $1 million grant from the federal Bureau of Reclamation, snow and water scientists at Montana State University have begun testing new methods of measuring snowpack levels with the goal of improving water forecasting for drought, flood and irrigation management in the U.S. Eric Sproles, assistant professor in MSU's Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, said the MSU-led project is one of 15 similar proposals funded by the bureau's Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program to evaluate advanced...
A Montana State University research team has published a study that may contribute to management and restoration strategies for whitebark pine, a species that is experiencing significant decline and was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act almost a year ago. Danielle Ulrich, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology in MSU's College of Letters and Science, is the lead author on a recently published paper in the journal Forest Ecology and Management. The paper describes... Full story
BOZEMAN – Though the rock you idly kick along that mountain trail isn't sentient, it does have a long memory – one that a Montana State University researcher is tapping to reveal the geo-logic history of southwest Montana dating from hundreds of millions to billions of years ago. Devon Orme, assistant professor of geology in MSU's Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foun-dation to apply techniques she helped develop to unlock the unknown "deep-time" history of...
Student and faculty veterans at Montana State University are among the first in the nation able to meet with their remote medical providers without leaving campus in a newly dedicated telehealth access site in MSU's Travis W. Atkins Veteran Support Center. The access site is one of two established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, in partnership with MSU and the University of Montana in Missoula. They are the country's first two campus-based Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations, or ATLAS sites. At the sites, student or emp... Full story