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The UM News service has written a piece highlighting SMART FIRES undergraduate Joseph Knudsen. Joseph works with Dr. Lu Hu in the Smart Optical Sensor thrust. Get to know Joseph, his career goals, and his work on the High Quality Atmospheric Readings and Telemetry Station by reading the article.

On a beautiful fall day in September, a team of Montana NSF EPSCoR researchers, students and outreach professionals from several Montana colleges and universities gathered at the University of Montana’s Lubrecht Experimental Forest near Greenough, Mont.

Kristen Intemann, Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Society (C-STES) at Montana State University (MSU), is working with graduate students in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences (LRES) at MSU to construct maps to analyze which communities and Tribal Nations are particularly impacted by both wildfire smoke and smoke from prescribed burns in Montana and across the U.S. This project is a product of the Social Psychology, Economics, and Ethics (SPEE) thrust of the SMART FIRES project.

Each year, the Science Math Resource Center at MSU co-hosts the STEM Summer Institute, an annual conference for over 170 K-12 educators from around the state. This summer, SMRC led a workshop that introduced educators to the SMART FIRES project and included presentations by Dr. Kevin Repasky from the Smart Optical Sensor thrust and Will Jardee from the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning thrust.   

SMART FIRES researchers at the University of Montana have begun to build the "Supervan," a rapidly deployable mobile laboratory with enough space and power for scientific instruments that measure, track, and sample prescribed fire and wildfire smoke.

Do you work with youth in an out-of-school program in a Montana small town? Would you like financial support to attend a Science Action Club workshop and bring back STEM resources for your community? In partnership with the Montana Afterschool Alliance, we are pleased to offer travel support to two out-of-school programs to attend the Science Action Club workshop in Spokane, Washington on Feb. 10 and 11, 2020.

In partnership with the MSU Science Math Resource Center and the Montana Afterschool Alliance, we are pleased to offer support to attend the 2019 Montana Afterschool Alliance annual conference (Aug. 8-9 in Bozeman) to two out-of-school educators from Montana towns of 2,500 and under.