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The Agricultural Marketing Policy Center sponsors research on agriculture
and natural resource trade policies and their economic effects. It
communicates this information to the public through various media.
The Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) was established by
the National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with INL to foster a new
approach to university engineering and science education and to study the growth
of bacteria on surfaces in engineered systems and in the subsurface. At
CBE, multidisciplinary research teams find solutions and applications for
industrially relevant problems and potentials of microbial biofilm formation.
The Center for Bison and Wildlife Health is a regional center for
information exchange and research on all aspects of the biology and management
of the American bison.
The Center for Computational Biology focuses on systems-level
challenges using advanced computational approaches and supports research,
education and technology transfer in the area of computational biology using a
general approach to the solution of scientific problems through the combined use
of advanced experimental, theoretical, and computational techniques.
The Geographic Information and Analysis Center (GIAC) provides affordable GIS services to the academic community and to the Montana
community at large. The Center conducts on- and off-campus training
programs, provides GIS technical support and conducts joint
government-industry-university research using a variety of geographic
information system and remote sensing packages.
The Montana Water Center serves as a liaison with government and the
private sector to provide information and educational services. The Center
is one of 54 located at land grant universities in each state, authorized by
Congress through the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
The mission of the Big Sky Institute (BSI) (formerly the Mountain Research Center) is to increase the understanding,
knowledge and appreciation of the natural and cultural environment by linking
education, research and interpretive programs related to natural ecosystems, to
interactions among ecosystems, and to the human communities that depend on them.
The Big Sky Institute is a unique combination of partners – Montana State
University (MSU - a land-grant university), the Big Sky community, K-12 schools,
foundations, private businesses, and federal and state agencies – who are
striving to be one of the nation’s leading centers dedicated to the creation,
application, and, more importantly, the communication of science-based knowledge
on the Yellowstone ecosystem and ecosystems world-wide.
The Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NRMSC), formed by the U.S. Geological Survey, conducts integrated, interdisciplinary
research in support of natural resource management in the Northern Rocky
Mountains.
The Optical Technology Center (OpTeC) conducts
research in the rapidly growing field of electro-optics. Multidisciplinary
research teams work with industry and other research centers to find solutions
to industry problems and discover new application potentials in optical fields.
The Spectrum Lab was established in 1999 to
perform state of the art research and development in optical electronics, to
transition the new technology to Montana corporations and to provide enhanced
educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. The
current core technical activities in high band-width electronic devices are to
support the next generation of communications and computing.
Applications include:
- High-bandwidth, low-latency
computer memory
- High-bandwidth correlators with
large time-bandwidth product
- All-optical routing switches for
optical communications networks
- Frequency references for
spectroscopic measurement and clocks
- High-temporal-resolution
measurement instruments
The TechLink Center is funded by the Department
of Defense, NASA, and other federal agencies to link companies in Montana and
the surrounding region with federal laboratories for joint research and
technology transfer. An overriding purpose is to contribute to the success
of both technology-based companies and key resource-based industries in the
state and region. TechLink provides specialized assistance in the industry
areas of advanced materials, aerospace, agricultural technologies, biomedicine
and biotechnology, electronics, environmental technologies, information
technologies and software, and photonics and sensors.
The Thermal
Biology Institute (TBI) is a multidisciplinary program for studying thermal biology.
The long-term goal is to understand how organisms respond and adapt to unique
physical and chemical features of the thermal environment.
The Western Transportation Institute (WTI) forms cooperative alliances of public and private partners interested in
implementing ITS technology on rural highway systems. WTI provides a
location for research, development, testing, demonstration and deployment of
rural ITS technologies and systems.
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