Dr. Joe Seymour

Joe Seymour is co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Lab and a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Montana State University. His primary area of research interest is in transport quantification and imaging using Magnetic Resonance (MR). Prior and future research includes laboratory and field studies of transport phenomena using MR's ability to measure both coherent motion, or velocity, and random motion, or diffusion. During a postdoctoral stay in New Zealand with Prof. Paul Callaghan research was conducted in Antarctica in 1995 and 1997 to study the structure of sea ice using NMR in the Earth's magnetic field. The opportunity to combine science, outdoor adventure and the history of Antarctic exploration, was a unique and rewarding experience. Another adventure in research was undertaken with Prof. Eiichi Fukushima in the Gorno Altay region of Siberia along the Mongolian border. Experiments to measure groundwater content up to 50 meters underground using Surface NMR were conducted with Prof. Oleg Shushakov's group. The Katun River valley is a beautiful region of rocky mountains and was an ancient trade route from Russia to Mongolia.

Dr. Richard Ready

Dr. Ready's research centers on how people benefit from, and impact, the environment and natural resources. His research topics have included environmental health, climate change, invasive species, landscape change and outdoor recreation. Prior to coming to Montana State University, he served on the faculty at University of Kentucky, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and Penn State University. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals, and served on the EPA Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee.

Dr. Ben Poulter

Concerned about how climate change will affect ecosystems and society, Dr. Ben Poulter's research uses satellite and aircraft observations of the Earth's surface and atmosphere to understand the global carbon cycle. As a Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ben develops ecological models that use remote-sensing observations of fire, land-use change, soil moisture, carbon dioxide and methane fluxes to track where emissions or removals of greenhouse gases are taking place. He is involved in developing NASA's next generation of satellites that will form the new NASA Earth System Observatory and also leads NASA's Blueflux field campaign to measure greenhouse gases in coastal ecosystems. Before joining NASA, Ben worked overseas at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), and Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE), and joined Montana State University from 2014-2016 as a professor in the Department of Ecology. At Montana State University he helped set up the WAFER-X project to evaluate Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Sequestration technologies across the Upper Missouri River Basin. He contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports, the United States Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report, and is currently an author with the United States Global Change Research Program's Fifth National Climate Assessment. In addition to contributing to the scientific literature, Ben's edited book "Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets" will be published in early summer.

Kristin Blackler

Kristin Blackler (she,her, hers) has served as the Director of the Office of Sustainability at Montana State University since 2013. Kristin has over 15 years of experience advancing sustainability in higher education. She earned a BA in Environmental Studies with a special concentration in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from the University of Montana. Kristin serves on the Streamline Advisory Board, the City of Bozeman Sustainability Board and is an elected member of the Montana State University All Staff Council. When not at work, Kristin can be found skiing, fly fishing or mountain biking throughout the beautiful state of Montana.