Dr. Sarah Godsey and Sarah Newcomb discuss water-related research and related partnerships at Idaho State University. Ms. Newcomb talks about ISU’s connection with the Henry’s Fork Foundation and how this partnership serves an important role in ISU graduate student education and research opportunities. Dr. Godsey helps listeners understand how the support of geoscience alumni provide unique research and educational opportunities for ISU students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Without alumni support and involvement, student opportunities would be limited. To learn more about how to support student success, contact the ISU Foundation. Dr. Godsey also describes how ISU is involved in local water conservation and water quality programs through the Portneuf Watershed Partnership.
Guests:
Dr. Sarah Godsey earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from University of California – Berkeley in 2009, followed by a postdoctoral research position in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Penn State. She joined Idaho State’s Geosciences department as faculty in 2012.
Sarah Newcomb is a PhD candidate in the Geosciences department. Sarah's research at ISU focuses on improving our understanding of how interactions between climate and plants affect how water moves from mountains to rivers across eastern Idaho. To answer this question, she has spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours hiking around and collecting data in the nearby Gibson Jack watershed and collaborating with regional scientists.
