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Jan 16, 2025 | 
belgrade-news.com | Diana Setterberg
Montana State University scientists say the frozen remnants of an ancient forest discovered 600 feet above the modern tree line on the Beartooth Plateau may portend possible changes for the alpine ecosystem if the climate continues to warm. A paper about the discovery was published Dec. 30 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
dri.edu | Diana Setterberg |Elyse DEFRANCO |Elyse DeFranco
Reno, Nev. (January 15, 2025) – DRI scientists Joe McConnell and Nathan Chellman co-authored a new study that examines a 6,000-year-old forest preserved in a Rocky Mountain ice patch. The research, which was led by the USGS and Montana State University, used the fossil wood to develop tree-ring based temperature estimates of the mid-Holocene period.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
phys.org | Diana Setterberg
Montana State University scientists say the frozen remnants of an ancient forest discovered 600 feet above the modern tree line on the Beartooth Plateau may portend possible changes for the alpine ecosystem if the climate continues to warm.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
carboncountynews.com | Diana Setterberg
The ability of a tree to recover from drought is essential to its survival and – in the case of whitebark pine – potentially critical to the future of the species, which is experiencing significant decline and was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2022.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
billingsgazette.com | Diana Setterberg
When Russell Conti enrolled at Montana State University as a freshman in 2018, he was unsure how he was meant to fulfill the destiny of the Lakota name “Eagle Warrior” that was given to him during a ceremony when he was a child. “‘Warrior’ seems like a pretty big obligation to live up to,” said Conti, who is of Oglala Lakota Sioux heritage on his mother’s side.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
bozemandailychronicle.com | Diana Setterberg
When Russell Conti enrolled at Montana State University as a freshman in 2018, he was unsure how he was meant to fulfill the destiny of the Lakota name “Eagle Warrior” that was given to him during a ceremony when he was a child. “‘Warrior’ seems like a pretty big obligation to live up to,” said Conti, who is of Oglala Lakota Sioux heritage on his mother’s side.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
bozemandailychronicle.com | Diana Setterberg
The day before the 2024-25 academic year begins at Montana State University, members of the incoming freshman class gather to be formally welcomed and hear a special address by author Tommy Orange at the First Year Student Convocation in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. As freshmen, family, faculty and community members arrive for the celebration, student employees of Montana PBS make final preparations to show the event on the Fieldhouse’s large video board.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
valleyjournal.net | Diana Setterberg
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BOZEMAN – 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.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
threeforksvoice.com | Diana Setterberg
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.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
phys.org | Diana Setterberg
About 34 million years ago, Earth began to cool dramatically, transforming the climate from greenhouse to icehouse and causing sea levels to fall. As more land was exposed to weathering forces, copious amounts of sediment likely sloughed off continents into the oceans, bound for the deep seafloor.
