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David W. Rodgers, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

rodgdavi@isu.edu

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Specialties
  • Structural Geology
  • Regional Tectonics
  • Administration
Interests

Between 2019 and 2022, I served as ISU's Associate Vice-President for Research and as Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES).

In 2018-2019, I was on sabbatical leave while serving as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Central Asia in Khorog, Tajikistan.

From 2013-2018, I was the ISU Site Leader for a large research program called MILES (Managing Idaho's Landscapes for Ecosystem Services). Funded by a five-year, $20M grant from NSF through their EPSCoR program, MILES involved 100+ participants at the three Idaho research universities. Faculty, post-docs, staff members, graduate students, and undergraduate students worked collaboratively to study the past, present and future growth of mid-sized cities, especially in relation to ecosystem services such as water supply, water quality, flood control, and recreation. The ISU MILES project is described in more detail here, and the statewide MILES project is described here.

From 2010-2018, I was Associate Dean in the ISU College of Science & Engineering. Comprising ten different disciplines, CoSE is a vibrant college characterized by quality education and significant research success.