Research Programs

Inventory of UM programs that contribute to sustainability by building environmental literacy & knowledge through research

Biological Sciences conducts research in:

Ecology , Evolution, Conservation of species, Environmental Microbiology, and
Invasive Plant Management

Chemistry, Environmental

Environmental Studies conducts research in:

Community-based Action Research, Environmental Justice, Land Conservation & Public Land Policy,

Sustainable Food & Farming , Toxics Policy, Transboundary Issues , Water and Watershed Studies

Facilities: Clancy Gordon Environmental Sciences Lab, Watershed Health Clinic , &     PEAS farm

Geology conducts research in:

Climate Change, Economic Geology, Environmental Geochemistry & Geophysics,
Hydrobiogeosciences. Facilities

Forestry School Research:

Montana Forest & Conservation Experiment Station
Centers, Institutes, and Special Programs

Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit
-- a campus wide program administered by Forestry

Field Research facilities

Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Bandy Experimental Ranch &
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch

Wildlife Biology program

Centers, Institutes, Facilities, and Programmatic Units

Bolle Center for People and Forests (Forestry)

Boone and Crockett Wildlife Conservation Research Program (Forestry)

Bureau of Business and Economic Research (Business)

Center for Environmental Health Sciences (Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences)

Center for the Rocky Mountain West

Center for River Science and Stream Renaturalization (Geology & others)

Clancy Gordon Environmental Sciences Laboratory

Environmental Engineering at Montana Tech of the University of Montana

Field Research Station at Ft. Missoula (DBS and Geology)

Flathead Lake Biological Station (VP for Research and Development)

Inland Northwest Growth and Yield Cooperative (Forestry)

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (Forestry)

Land Use Clinic (Law)

Lubrecht Experimental Forest (MFCES)

Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (VP for Research and Development)

Murdock Molecular Biology Laboratory (DBS)

National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis (Forestry)

Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group (Forestry)

Riparian and Wetland Research Program (Forestry)

Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (VP for Research and Dev.)

UM Social Science Research Laboratory (Geography and Sociology)

UM Watershed Health Clinic (Environmental studies)

Wilderness Institute (Forestry)

Wildlife Spatial Analysis Laboratory (VP for Research and Development)