Department Centers and Research Facilities

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CGISS-Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface
The general goal of CGISS is to focus undergraduate and graduate geoscientific research on the  structure, processes, and properties of the uppermost part of the Earth's crust.

DCEW-Dry Creek Experimental Watershed
The Dry Creek Experimental Watershed was established in 1999 to investigate hydrologic processes in the semi-arid foothills terrain overlooking the city of Boise, Idaho.

ESPRI-Environmental Science and Public Policy Research Institute
The Environmental Science and Public Policy Research Institute (ESPRI) serves as an independent and objective resource to aid informed, public policy development and decision making through the utilization of science, technology, and policy analysis.

GRF-Geospatial Research Facility
Our long-term goal is work with regional scientists, planners, environmental, land and resource managers, industry, local governments, and lawmakers, to develop the tools they need to efficiently and effectively address a wide variety of issues.

HSP-Hydrologic Sciences Program
The Hydrologic Sciences Program at Boise State is an interdisciplinary
graduate degree program that integrates disciplines including geosciences,
civil engineering, biology and mathematics to investigate and address
important, and often complex, problems in the hydrologic sciences.

IGL-Isotope Geology Laboratory
The Boise State University Isotope Geology Laboratory (IGL) is an emerging facility for the analysis of radiogenic isotopes in Earth materials, with a focus on high-precision geochronology (U-Pb zircon) and tracer isotope geochemistry. These tools can be applied to a variety of problems in igneous and metamorphic petrology, structural geology and tectonics, paleobiological evolution and paleoclimate change in deep time.

PAL-Physical Acoustics Lab
Our interests are many, but center around wave propagation in disordered media for applications in Geophysics. Particularly, we are interested in extracting information from multiply scattered waves in heterogeneous media. In the lab, these waves are recorded via noncontacting techniques.

PALEOSTRAT-A Paleontologic and Stratigraphic Information System
PALEOSTRAT, part of the "CHRONOS System" (http://www.chronos.org), is a digital information system for sedimentary, paleontologic, stratigraphic, geochemical, geochronologic, and related data that is hosted at Boise State University, built through collaboration with the geoscience community to serve the community.

PRI-Permian Research Institute
The main function of PRI is to conduct geologic research broadly related to global Permian geology. Specific research projects have been diverse, including: Permian-Carboniferous biostratigraphy, stratigraphy and structure of the Southern Pre-Uralian Foredeep, Late Paleozoic basins and tectonics of the continental margin of the western U.S., Paleobiogeographic implications of Lower Permian ammonoids from western North America, Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian conodont and ammonoid biostratigraphy of the Dry Mountain Trough, Nevada.

WPRG-Watershed Processes Research Group
The focus of this research group is to investigate through field and modeling experiments the mechanisms by which water moves through the various components of a watershed, and the consequences that those processes have on the landscape and stream environments.