This series is sponsored by Montana Tech's School of Mines & Engineering, the College of Letters, Sciences and Professional Studies, Highlands College, the Biology Department, Research Office, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and Sigma Xi.
Submissions from 2016
Substance Use Disorders: Differentiating What We Know from What We Believe, Victor Capoccia PhD.
Environmental Dynamics in Geobiochemical Engineering: From Supervolcanoes to Silver Bow Creek, Alysia Cox
Raptor Education In the West, Kate Davis
Fluid Induced Earthquakes: Insights from Hydrogeology and Poro-mechanics, Shemin Ge
Fire, Earth & Rain: Emergency Response for Wildfire-Induced Landslide Hazards, Jerome De Graff
Starfish in the Sundance Sea: Jurassic Asteroidea Fossils from South Montana, Jay Gunderson
Sequence Stratigraphy of SW Montana, Debra Hanneman
Writing Science for Young Readers, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Molecules, Minerals, & Metals: A Story of Resonance Revealed by Raman Spectroscopy, Greg Hope
Stratigraphy from Borehole Strain, Yellowstone National Park & Monitoring Norris Geyser Basin with Thermal IR Remote Sensing, Cheryl Jaworowski and Henry Heasler
USC's K-12 STEM Community Outreach for Low-Income and Underrepresented Minority Students, DJ Kast
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about HPV, but Were Afraid to Ask, W. Martin Kast
People Around Me are Getting Older: Engaging Undergraduates in Gerontological Research, Elyse Lovell
The Great Missoula Floods of the Last Ice Age, Jim O'Connor
Seasonal Biogeochemical Dynamics: Georgetown Lake, MT, Steve Parker, Ph.D.
Radiation Processing of Dust, Asteroids and Moons: Space Weathering and Cosmochemistry, Micah Schaible
Beyond Utility: A Humanist Philology of Technical Communication, Ethan Sproat
Why Chris Davis is Better at Hitting Home Runs than I Am? (or How All Brains Are the Same and How They Are Different), Charles F. Stevens
Model This! The Hows, Whys, and Whichs of Modeling in Groundwater Science, Mary Sutherland
A Molecular Approach to Clay Materials, Robert Szilagyi
Taking Risks: Why We Need More Women in Technology and What to Do About It, Telle Whitney
Submissions from 2015
Photonics Crystals: The Future of Microwave Signal Processing, Randall Babbitt
Engaging Communities to Advance Environmental Health Research, Fran Barg
Small Business Entrepreneurship in Montana, Marilyn Besich
Archiving Montana’s Geologic Data, Peggy Delaney
Applications of Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis for Social Science Research, Dan Ervin
Energy & Sustainability into the Future, Kumar Ganesan
Improving Recovery from Unconventional Oil Reservoirs, Todd Hoffman
Building the Black Hole in Our Own Backyard, Kelly Holley-Bocklemann
Cosmogenic 22Na as a New Chronological Tool for Hydrologic Problems, James Kaste
Tracking Montana’s Groundwater: 20 Years of Lessons Learned, John LaFave
Death in Butte’s Berkeley Pit: What 342 Dead Snow Geese Tell us about the Nature of Humans, Timothy LeCain
Imaging Tectonic Plates - Structure and Deformation of North America, Vedran Lekic
Critical Elements and Critical Materials—What is so Critical?, Marc LeVier
Low Carbon Transition in China, Zheng Li
Why is this Grizzly Bear in My Backyard?, Tim Manley
Carbon Sequestration in the Kevin Dome, Northern Montana, Travis McLing
Coal and Coalbed Methane in Montana: Past, Present, and Future, Elizabeth Meredith
Effects of Coalbed Methane Production on Stream Flow, Elizabeth Meredith
Applications of Fiber-optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in the Energy Industry, Khalid Miah
Opportunities in Materials Processing: Metal Casting, Charles Monroe
Are Native and Non-native Populations of an Invasive Plant Really Different?, Robert Pal
Geology and Mining on the J-M Pt+Pd Bearing Reef, James Rose
Seeing the Invisible: Detecting rare species with genetic technologies, Michael Schwartz
Physics and Science Policy Implications of Reduction of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Arsenal, Allen Sessoms
Research, STEM Education, & Native American Programs in Montana, Aaron Thomas
Enhanced Oil Recovery from Elm Coulee Bakken – Social, Technical and Economic Implications, Burt J. Todd, Ph.D.
Transmission, Reliability & Stability: Challenges & Solutions, Dan Trudnowski
Social and economic dimensions of the bushmeat trade in Southeast Nigeria, Carrie Vath
The Trend and Dominant Causes of Water Resource Challenges in Central Asia, Xianwei Wang
Joining Forces: Learning about Veterans Using Healthcare Simulation Techniques, Janet Wilhaus
China's Transit to a Low Carbon Energy Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development, Xiliang Zhang
Submissions from 2014
Affirmative Action Endures Three Decades of Challenges: The Pursuit of Diversity on Campus, John C. Brittain
Water Quality Issues in the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota, Rod Caldwell
Same Same but Different: Returning to Vietnam after 40 Years, Dan Cornell
Energy: the Next Fifty Years, George Crabtree
Geology of the Butte Ore Deposit, John Dilles Ph.D.
The Role of Science in Controlling Invasive Species: A Case Study on Wild Pigs, Steve Ditchkoff, Ph.D.
Lessons from Two Decades of Hanta Virus Research, Richard J. Douglass, Ph.D.
Reading Our Land Use Legacy in Groundwater: Nitrate Dynamics in the Judith River Watershed, Stephanie Ewing, Ph.D.
High Temperature Superconductivity: Taming Serendipity, Laura H. Greene, Ph.D.
Mouse in the House: Deer Mouse and Sin Nombre Virus Dynamics in Montana, Amy Kuenzi
Great Falls Tectonic Zone: A Perspective from Idaho, Reed Lewis, Ph.D.
Expert-novice Differences in Geologic Field Mapping and Related Cognition, Julie Libarkin
Spatial Ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake on the Snake River Plain, Charles Peterson, Ph.D.
Revegetation and Bird Trends, Silver Bow Creek Superfund Remediation and Restoration, Richard A. Prodgers
Earth Science and Communities: Great Earthquakes to Wild Rice, Ken Ridgway, Ph.D.
Strategies for the Next Generation of Conservation: Lessons from a Life in Environmental Leadership, Jon Roush
Looking at Chemistry in Hard to See Places: Understanding Energy Conversion at 1400° Celsius, Robert Walker
Road Ecology: A Practitioner's Tale, Deb Wambach and Joe Weigand
Submissions from 2013
Alpine Plants and Climate Change in Glacier National Park, New Zealand and Scotland, Martha E. Apple, Ph.D.
The Application of Laser-Ablation Split-Stream ICP Petrochronology to Metamorphic Studies, Julia Baldwin, Ph.D.
Has "Omnics" Gone Viral?, Brian Bothner, Ph.D.
Layer-cake, anoxia, and other myths: A new look at the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation Reservoir, Williston Basin, North Dakota, Sven Egenhoff, Ph.D.
Traditional Whaling Methods in Modern Times, Russell Fielding, Ph.D.
Shaping a Bright Future for Montana Tech: Developing State, National and Global Leaders in Resource Sectors, Leigh W. Freeman
The ABEGHHK'tH Resolution, S. James Gates Jr., Ph.D.
Seafloor to Summit: The Birth of Everest, Dave Lageson, Ph.D.
The Geology of Central Chile's Long-Lived Volcanic Arc, Jesse Mosolf, Ph.D.
Common Mistakes When Fitting Models to Data, Richard Rossi, Ph.D.
Groundwater Under the Butte Hill - The East Camp Mining System and the Berkeley Pit, Nicholas J. Tucci