The University of Montana and the University of Alaska Anchorage are partnering to conduct scientific research that directly supports the needs of their natural‑resource‑based economies, focusing on snow water resources, wildland fire management, and abandoned oil well monitoring. Across all three areas, the project uses a shared technical approach: unmanned aerial systems (UAS or drones)…
Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere which results in undesirable changes to the climate. The recent surge in methane emissions has invigorated interest of the scientific community to explore the contributions of living microorganisms to both the production and the breakdown of methane. To more deeply understand these processes, this…
RII Track-2 FEC: Using Natural Variation to Educate, Innovate, and Lead (UNVEIL): A Collaborative Research Network to Advance Genome-to-Phenome Connections in the Wild Understanding how organisms function in complex environments and how they acclimate and adapt to environmental challenges, remains a central problem in biology. This Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2…
A regional interdisciplinary team led by Montana State University with the University of Wyoming and University of South Dakota to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems while training the next generation of scientists. Proposal Title: Sustainable socio-economic, ecological, and technological scenarios for achieving global climate stabilization through negative CO2 emission…
Montana State University is a partner in neuroscience research on attention with New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Nevada. The Montana sub-award is $2M on this $6M project. Focused attention is critical to countless daily tasks, from operating machinery to maintaining safety in high security settings. This project forms a consortium of neuroscientists in New Hampshire,…
The overarching goal of this cyberinfrastructure project is to extend the reach and capability of the Montana University System’s (MUS) newly activated owned-fiber network, the Montana Northern Tier Network (MT-NTN), to three strategic locations. This new infrastructure will improve the connectivity and access for a university in the MUS, two community colleges and one tribal…
The Montana-Kentucky (MTKY) cyber consortium is a partnership of the primary research universities in the two states–University of Montana (UM), Montana State University (MtSU), University of Kentucky (UK), University of Louisville (UL), Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) in Montana operated by UM, Hancock Biological Station (HBS) in Kentucky operated by Murray…