Ability to work within a university setting to foster collaborations with: Montana Tech administration, faculty and students, and Montana University System graduate schools; state and federal agency personnel; state and federal elected officials; a wide range of natural-resource industries and environmental-geotechnical groups; and the general public. The MBMG maintains a strong portfolio of applied geoscience programs, including groundwater resource evaluation, geologic mapping, environmental hydrogeology, mineral and energy resource evaluation, geologic hazards, data preservation, GIS and information services, and analytical and mineral separation laboratories.