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海角社区 News: Research

 

Photo of Leif Tapanila and Jesse Pruitt of the IVL holding a large vertebrae of a whale.

Idaho Museum of Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally scan bones of California blue whale

February 25, 2019

POCATELLO – The Idaho Museum of Natural History and 海角社区 received a $20,000 award from the National Science Foundation in January to scan the entire skeleton of a blue whale that washed ashore in California. The skeleton is at the Noyo Center for Marine Science in Fort Bragg, California.

3MT Competition: Bengals take honors in state research challenge

February 15, 2019

BOISE – It was a daunting task – condensing thousands of words and hundreds of hours of research into a three-minute presentation before a live audience.  But five 海角社区 graduate students rose to the challenge at the state’s first Three Minute Thesis/3 Minute Masters Competition Feb. 12 in Boise.
Research in 3 Minutes Poster

Three minutes, one slide: Bengals to participate in state research challenge

February 1, 2019

POCATELLO – Imagine spending years researching and writing your master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, then having just three minutes to explain the content.

Ernest Keeley, left, directing a student during a study on the lower Portneuf River.

海角社区 professors identify some of last remaining populations of native cutthroat trout in the Portneuf River

January 17, 2019

POCATELLO ­– For the last 20 years, 海角社区 fish ecologists Ernest Keeley and Janet Loxterman in the Department of Biological Sciences have studied Cutthroat Trout populations in waters from Alaska to New Mexico.  Among their other research endeavors, they have identified some of the last remaining native, genetically pure populations of Cutthroat Trout in the areas around Pocatello, including distinct subspecies variations, in some unlikely places.

Photo of IMNH director Tapanila with replicas of scissor-toothed shark jaws.

海角社区 researchers help create skull of ancient scissor-toothed shark, Edestus

January 17, 2019

POCATELLO – The ancient scissor-toothed shark Edestus was a “weird, weird beastie,” according to Leif Tapanila, 海角社区 geosciences professor and Idaho Museum of Natural History director.

海角社区 psychology professor recruits 125 area women for study

January 7, 2019

POCATELLO – Over the past four years, 海角社区 Clinical Psychology Professor Nicki Aubuchon-Endsley’s Perinatal Psychobiology Laboratory team has talked to more than 100 expectant mothers in Southeast Idaho to help identify risk factors for rural families.
海角社区 Ph.D. student Omid Heidari poses with the type of robot that will be used in the IGEM project.

海角社区, industry partner House of Design receive $162K IGEM grant to develop application to connect robotics with augmented reality

December 11, 2018

POCATELLO – 海角社区 researchers will work with the robotic systems integration company House of Design in Nampa to enable programmers wearing augmented reality glasses to communicate directly with robots.
Photo of Oliphant and Berian standing in front of their research poster.

海角社区 study reveals dangerous prescribing practices for Idaho patients on opioids

December 11, 2018

A quarter of chronic users received high-risk drug combinations

海角社区’s Colden Baxter receives Jean’ne M. Shreeve NSF EPSCoR Research Excellence Award

December 7, 2018

POCATELLO ­– Colden Baxter, 海角社区 biological sciences professor, is the recipient of the 2018 Jean’ne M. Shreeve NSF EPSCoR Research Excellence Award.
Photo of Ph.D. student Amy Commodore and her advisor Bruce Finney in the 海角社区 Stable Isotopes Laboratory, pictured with some samples of owl pellets in small jars.

Old piles of bones deposited by owls assist 海角社区 Ph.D. student Amy Commendador's research on past climates of the Snake River Plain

December 5, 2018

POCATELLO – To understand changes in the Snake River Plain’s climate and ecosystem over thousands of years, 海角社区 biological sciences doctoral student Amy Commendador has been analyzing the contents of owl pellets using a sophisticated instrument called an isotope ratio mass spectrometer.