Anna Bergstrom
Assistant Professor of Geosciences I am motivated by beautiful and complex landscapes and want to better understand how they function and how this will be altered in our rapidly changing world. I focus primarily on water in frozen and liquid form along with all the particles, solutes, and transformations they undergo as they move with water through the landscape. I completed my PhD with Dr. Mike Gooseff at University of Colorado- Boulder, my MS with Dr. Kelsey Jencso at University of Montana, and my BS in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University. When I'm not doing research, you can find me running and skiing around the mountains or in the kitchen experimenting with some new dish or baked good. Preferably one that uses fresh food from my garden. |
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Mac (Thomas) Beers
MS Student - Hydrologic Sciences Mac is a Boise State Alumni with his BS in Civil Engineering. With interest in hydrology and water resources, he is continuing his education in the Boise State University Geosciences program. Mac's current research is focused on intermittency in the Dry Creek Experimental Watershed. Looking forward, he hopes to incorporate actionable science in his education to help local water resource managers and engineers with their ongoing projects. Mac is co-advised by Dr. Kevin Roche in Civil Engineering at Boise State. Rachel Grena
MS Student - Hydrologic Sciences Rachel Grena graduated from The University of Montana in 2022 with a BS in Geosciences. Her current research focuses on quantifying the isotopic signatures of precipitation and the contribution of rain and snow to streamflow in the Mores Creek Watershed in southwest Idaho. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, trying new restaurants, and hiking to mountain lakes with her husky, Skadi. Mason Bull
MS Student - Geosciences Mason Bull is an Idaho State University alumni with a BS degree in Geology, received in 2019. He is pursuing his masters degree in geosciences at Boise State University, and his research involves using remote sensing to quantify landcover change in the Wolverine Glacier Watershed in south-central Alaska. He is distinctly interested in the way that landscapes and the earth respond to a quickly and intensely changing world and wants to incorporate this work to make a more livable world for all life we interact with. When not in the lab Mason is probably baking, playing in the river or climbing with his wife and dog, or hunting and fishing Idaho's fantastic and vast wilderness. Matthew Wilken
BS Student- Geosciences Matthew is an international student from South Africa pursuing a B.S. in Geoscience with an emphasis in Hydrology. He joined the research team as a field assistant in the Spring of 2021, helping graduate student Mac Beers with his thesis research in Dry Creek. Matthew has studied patterns of dissolved oxygen during dry down of Dry Creek and is currently serving as a Dry Creek field technician. In his spare time he enjoys playing golf, skiing in the winter (who would have thought?), traveling and learning about the earth and its complex past and present. Bryn Chaffee
BS Student- Geosciences Bryn is an undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Geoscience with an emphasis in hydrology. She joined the team as a lab tech in the fall of 2022, helping with analysis and the development of existing projects including nutrient analysis of sediments and cryoconite collected from Antarctic glaciers. Bryn spends her free time snowboarding or climbing, depending on the season, and enjoys seeing the way that water has impacted those landscapes. |