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Safe Ways for Wildlife to Get Past Highways Goes International

By Steve Fullerton April 9, 2013

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) chapter in Bozeman is bringing a Mongolian group of officials to tour various overpasses and underpasses in Montana and other US sites that help animals cross traffic areas

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Category: Montana News Tags: highway, Mongolia, Montana, MSU, overpasses, underpasses, wildlife

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Aurora Movie Booked for Re-opening of MSU’s Taylor Planetarium

By Steve Fullerton February 25, 2013

In Bozeman, the Taylor Planetarium at the Museum of the Rockies has been remodeled and is re-opening March 2.

The facility has a newly installed Digistar 5 projection system - on a par with the top two planetariums in the world, according to a Montana State University news release

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Category: Elsewhere, Montana News Tags: aurora, Bozeman, elsewhere, MSU, Museum of the Rockies, Taylor Planetarium

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MSU Bozeman Crew Plays Major Role in Antarctic Deep Lake Study

By Steve Fullerton February 4, 2013

A U.S. team recently melted holes through a half mile of ice to Lake Whillans on the Antarctic continent.

Evelyn Boswell of the MSU News Service reports the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project was successful in reaching the isolated lake and collecting water and sediment January 28

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Category: Elsewhere, Montana News Tags: Antarctic, Bozeman, deep lake, drilling, MSU, WISSARD

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Ravalli County Commissioners Attend Government Session

By Steve Fullerton December 18, 2012

The Bitterroot Valley's Greg Chilcott and Jeff Burrows attended the first session of an elected county officials training this month.

Chilcott was re-elected and Burrows was elected to the Ravalli County Commission in the November election

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Category: Local News Tags: County Commission, MSU, Ravalli County, training

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MSU Bobcats Continue in Football Playoffs

By Steve Fullerton December 3, 2012

With a 16-10 victory last Saturday, the Montana State Bobcats advance to the second-round playoffs in the NCAA Championship Playoffs.

And the really good news, they get to host this game, too. They're up against Sam Houston State Friday night

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Category: National Sports Tags: Bobcats, Football, MSU

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Antarctic Study Co-Authored by Fritsen of Corvallis

By Steve Fullerton November 27, 2012

Christian Fritsen, formerly of Corvallis, Montana, and a former post-doc researcher at MSU Bozeman, has co-authored a study on bacteria that live in an under-ice lake in Antarctica.

Fritsen, polar scientist John Priscu and Alison Murray of the Desert Research Insitute of Reno, Nevada, published the study this week in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

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Category: Local News Tags: Antarctica, corvallis, Montana State University, MSU, Ravalli County, Science

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How to See the Aurora Borealis in Montana

By Jon King October 8, 2012

A solar storm that occurred on October 5th has disrupted earth's magnetic field enough to produce an Aurora Borealis that was visible in Western Montana Sunday night.

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