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BOZEMAN — From space, it is easy to see which areas of the Earth are covered in snow, but the appearance of snow on certain terrain is only part of the picture. "The goal is to understand how much snow is on the ground," said Montana State University snow hydrologist Eric Sproles. "Is it 5 inches deep or it 50 inches deep? And what's the density of that snow?" Sproles, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, leads one of six field sites in the western U.S. for NASA's SnowEx project, whic...
BOZEMAN – Though Nipah virus was first identified in 1999, its 2018 appearance in Kerala, an Indian state on the Arabian Sea near the tip of the subcontinent, was a surprise that prompted action for researchers at Montana State University. “We can’t predict why or where it’s going to emerge next,” said Raina Plowright, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Letters and Science and the College of Agriculture. After the 2018 outbreak, which killed 21 people in Kerala, Plowright and members of her...
