Selected Media
News Decoder. A different kind of butterfly effect. By Maggie Fox, March 4th, 2024.
The Atlantic. The Viral Threat Almost No One Is Thinking About. By Katherine J. Wu, October 29th, 2023.
The Telegraph. Lancet launches major ‘spillover’ investigation as two die of bird flu, including a toddler. By Sarah Newey, October 11th, 2023.
Devex. New team to tackle viral spillover for pandemic prevention. By Andrew Green, October 17th, 2023.
Reuters. Bats carry killer viruses. Scientists suggest ways to cope. May 17th, 2023.
Reuters. How a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people. May 17th, 2023.
ProPublica. Why Scientists Struggle to Fund Research on Predicting Outbreaks. By Caroline Chen, May 23, 2023.
ProPublica. The Scientist and the bats. By Caroline Chen, May 22, 2023.
WWL First News. Live interview with Tommy Tucker on pathogen spillover. March 1st, 2023.
Science News Explores. Protecting forests may help head off future pandemics. By Alison Stevens, February 13th, 2023.
Scientific American. A Secret Weapon in Preventing the Next Pandemic: Fruit Bats. New research links bat habitat destruction with the spillover of their viruses to humans. By Jim Robbins, February 3rd, 2023.
The Economist. Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases. Graphic detail section. January 31st, 2023.
National Public Radio. 9 diseases that keep epidemiologists up at night. By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred, January 29th, 2023.
Le Monde. Le renard volant éclaire l’émergence des pandémies. By Nathaniel Herzberg, January 5th, 2023.
The Atlantic. How climate change impacts pandemics. By Ed Yong, April 28th, 2022.
NBC News Now. How the pandemic highlights the connections between health and environment. March 30th, 2022.
MSU News Service, Belgrade News. Montana State researcher Raina Plowright named fellow of prestigious science organization. By Marshall Swearingen, January 26th, 2022.
MSU News Service. Charles and Nora L. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity. January 2022.
The Medical News. Bat coronavirus ecology, evolution, and spillover. By Shital Sarah Ahaley, November 24th, 2021.
Public Health On Call. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Podcast. Can Spillover—How Viruses Move from Animals to Humans—Be Prevented? With Josh Sharfstein, November 22, 2021.
ABC news, 10 news, KBZK, others through Scripps TV stations. Researchers studying bats hope to prevent the next human pandemic. By Maya Rodriguez, October 22nd, 2021.
The Washington Post. How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins. October 14th, 2021.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Montana State University researchers study how viruses from bats infect humans. September 21st, 2021.
Montana Free Press. What does the science really say about masking? September 15th, 2021.
Inside Edition. What is Nipah virus. September 9th, 2021.
National Geographic. Can a new app predict the next pandemic? April 6th, 2021.
ScienceNews. We still don’t know for sure where the coronavirus came from. Here’s why. March 18th, 2021.
Scienmag. Study Suggests Healthy Ecosystems Are Vital In Reducing Risk Of Future Deadly Pandemics. March 11th, 2021.
The Missoulian. Bigger than COVID? Study warns land use errors could unleash new pandemics. March 9th, 2021.
Boston 25 News. How is the U.S. preparing for the next pandemic? February 23rd, 2021.
KHN. Heading Off the Next Pandemic. January 4th, 2021.
AP News. Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic. December 14th, 2020.
Rolling Stone. How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era. December 7th, 2020.
New Scientist. The hunt is on. November 28th, 2020.
Mountain and Minds. Studying spillover. November 12th, 2020.
Irish Times. The real Contagion virus is out there and it’s causing virologists to worry. October 29th, 2020.
BBC Radio & The Naked Scientist Podcast. Where did COVID come from? September 1st, 2020.
Global Landscapes Forum. We are nature and nature is us. October 30th 2020.
Curiosity Stream. Don’t blame the bats. July 2020.
The Scientist. Characteristics that give viruses pandemic potential. August 17th, 2020.
The Washington Post. Why do bats have so many viruses? July 12th 2020.
Chemical & Engineering News. Scientists want to understand how viruses like SARS-CoV-2 jump from animals to people to try to spot the next pandemic. August 31st, 2020.
American Heart Association. Where do new viruses like the coronavirus come from? July 9th, 2020.
Mountain Film. Wild and Wool - About bighorn sheep pneumonia. By Phillip Baribeau, July 2020.
Bozeman Chronicle. MSU disease scientist urges greater use of face masks. July 7th 2020.
Press on warning of Hendra Virus outbreaks. June 17th 2020.
Globonews, Brazil. COVID and Deforestation. May 22nd 2020.
Audubon magazine. How Protecting Habitats Could Help Prevent Future Pandemics. Summer 2020.
The Atlantic. How Bats Might Have Tamed the Coronavirus. May 10th 2020.
Ensia. “We don’t know what else is out there.” Five ways new diseases emerge — and what we can do about them. May 2020.
National Public Radio. Montana Scientists Shift Focus To COVID Research. May 11th 2020.
Bozeman Chronicle and local media. MSU researchers show wastewater can help monitor, manage coronavirus. May 6th 2020.
Helena Independent Record. Montana State University researcher examines animal origins of COVID-19. April 30th 2020.
National Public Radio. Virus Researchers Cast Doubt On Theory Of Coronavirus Lab Accident. April 23rd, 2020.
National Geographic. There are more viruses than stars in the universe. Why do only some infect us? April 15th, 2020.
Associated Press/ABC News. Virus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals. April 14th, 2020.
Vice News. Here’s How Scientists Think Coronavirus Spreads from Bats to Humans. February 11th, 2020.
The New York Times. Saving the Bats, One Cave at a Time. February 18th 2019.
bioGraphic. The Reservoir. December 12th, 2018.
NBC TV Montana. Rocky Mountain Laboratories earn part of $10 million research grant. December 2018.
Homeland Preparedness News. Montana State University leading international project to counter bat-spread diseases. December 6th 2018.
The Atlantic. Anti-Vaxxers Are Targeting a Vaccine for a Virus Deadlier Than Ebola. July 9, 2018.
The Scientist. Predicting Future Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks. May 31st, 2018.
PBS Nova. Researchers Use Migratory Bats to Track Ebola. December 5, 2018.
Brisbane Times. Bat experts study flowering gums and infectious diseases link in Qld. September 17th 2017.
MSU News Service. MSU scientists win $1.65 million NSF grant to study how human behavior impacts spread of infectious diseases. September 14, 2017.
MSU News Service. MSU researcher works to restore struggling bighorn sheep populations. September 5, 2017.
Reddit. PLOS Science featured PLOS author. September 2016.
One Medicine. MSU scientists lead efforts to study diseases that cross from animals to humans. May 2016.
Mongabay. Bat mortality no longer sustainable, global review finds. April 2016.
Science Daily. Decades of bat observations reveal uptick in new causes of mass mortality. February 2016.
The Wildlife Society. Mortality Survey Shows Leading Causes of Bat Deaths. January 2015.
Montana State University. Study shows bat deaths worldwide rising due to human causes. January 2015.
IRIN Global. Will climate change = more disease? November 2015.
Brisbane Times. Bat poo under the microscope as researchers seek Hendra virus answers. February 2015.
New York Times. No Time for Bats to Rest Easy. January 2015.
Science News. Insect Eating Bats Implicated as Ebola Outbreak Source. December 2014.
Daily Beast. Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved. November 2014.
Time Magazine. After Ebola. Why the worst outbreak ever is a warning of what could come next. August 2014.
Distinctly Montana. Bringing Back Bighorn Sheep. Fall 2014
Weather Films. Virus Hunters—Hendra. 2014.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Lobbying Against a Hobby: Disease Keeps Bighorn Sheep at the Edge. January 2014.
Morris Animal Foundation. Developing a Vaccine to Protect Bighorn Sheep from Pneumonia. December 2013.
Penn State News. Bighorn Sheep Researchers Launch Outreach Website. October 2013.
Penn State News. Scientists Make Strides Toward Restoring Bighorn Sheep in the American West. May 2013.
The Guardian. Spillover. October 11th 2012.
New York Times. The Ecology of Disease. July 14, 2012.
New York Times. In Wild Animals, Charting the Pathways of Disease. May 28, 2012.
Sierra Magazine. Woe is Us: Hendra Virus. 2012.
Daily Climate. Climate Change May Boost a Lethal Disease. November 29th 2011.
Science 2.0. Urbanization May Influence Transmission Of Zoonotic Diseases. November 11th 2011.
The World Today. Hendra Pattern Consistent with its Evolution. July 8th 2011.
Science AAAS. Bat Hibernation Keeps Rabies Going. June 6th 2011.
Wired Science. Lethal Hendra Virus Outbreaks May be Caused by Man. May 12th 2011.
Chronicle of Higher Education. They Came in the Night. July 6th 2007.