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Montanans have been dazzled in recent months by colorful displays of the aurora, or northern lights, which occur when plasma and energetic particles ejected by the sun slam into Earth’s atmosphere and clash with the planet’s magnetic field. As spectacular as those light shows have been, Montana State University solar physicist Rachael Filwett says the solar energetic particle, or SEP, events that caused them were insignificant compared to others that have bombarded our planet in the distant past. Those events carried radiation levels dangerous...
An instrument designed and built at Montana State University to capture the first high-resolution, far-ultraviolet spectrum of the entire sun will be launched into space aboard a NASA rocket on Sunday, Aug. 11. The launch, scheduled for 1:05 p.m. Mountain time from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, will be livestreamed at https://video.ibm.com/wstf-wsmr. The unnarrated video will be "pretty spartan," according to Charles Kankelborg, MSU professor of physics and principal investigator...
Montana State University scientists have provided the first experimental evidence that two groups of microbes thriving in thermal features in Yellowstone National Park produce methane – a discovery that could one day help develop methods to mitigate climate change and provide insight into the potential for life elsewhere in our solar system. The prestigious scientific journal Nature this week published the findings from the laboratory of Roland Hatzenpichler, associate professor in MSU's D...
A Montana State University researcher has announced the first confirmed detection of eclipse-induced gravity waves in Earth's stratosphere in data collected by students participating in an MSU-led nationwide atmospheric science program. Angela Des Jardins, director of the Montana Space Grant Consortium and an associate professor in the Department of Physics in MSU's College of Letters and Science, presented the findings Wednesday at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The... Full story
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...
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 dev...
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 Stat... Full story
