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BHRS-Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site
The BHRS is a field laboratory/wellfield in a shallow unconfined aquifer
adjacent to the Boise River. We are developing theory, models, and
methods for quantitatively characterizing and imaging the distribution
of hydrologic and geophysical properties in heterogeneous aquifers, and
for examining processes and issues such as flow and transport, surface
water-groundwater interactions, scale, petrophysical relationships, and
joint inversion.
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.