RESEARCH and TRAINING

The IGERT program in Geobiological Systems is both inter-and multi-disciplinary and involves faculty and Ph.D. students from the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Letters and Science. The primary research areas supported by and integrated within the IGERT program include the geomicrobiology of thermal, psychrophilic or anthropogenic systems. Graduates from this IGERT program will be well-prepared to address the complexity of microbial processes in any system, while maintaining significant disciplinary depth.  The broader impacts of this graduate training program are extensive, and include partnerships with existing centers of excellence in Thermal Biology, Cold Regions Research, and Biofilm Engineering. Outreach is an integral part of the educational experience and graduate students in this program will participate and assist with important outreach activities including a formal K-12 science-teacher course, scientific workshops, industrial partner programs, training for Yellowstone National Park (YNP) interpretive staff,  field trips for K-12 students, educational exhibits at the Museum of the Rockies and the Old Faithful Visitor Museum, mentoring Native American high school and undergraduate students, and development of digital libraries and web content in collaboration with the YNP Research Coordination Network.  These broader impacts are synergistic in supporting the diverse educational goals of an IGERT program, and in further developing literacy in the geobiological sciences.

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