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Inspire Session
Inspire Session

INS 15 - Collaboration and Integration Across Scales, Species, and Studies: Graduate Student Perspectives

Wednesday, August 9, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Location: 253

This Inspire Session is designed to promote discussion around a critical topic in ecology and related sciences: integration and interdisciplinary connections. Specifically, our speakers will explore the opportunities and challenges that have come from navigating integration across scales, species, disciplines, and career stages within a large, multidisciplinary grant project from a student perspective. Although our speakers will highlight what we have learned so far as part of one collaborative grant in Idaho, we invite attendees to share the challenges, lessons learned, and opportunities they have identified in their own experiences with collaborative projects.
The session will begin with a brief orientation to the theme of integration and our use of landscape as an integrating concept across individual projects, followed by talks highlighting perspectives from the genomics, fisheries science, microbiology, conservation biology, ecology, and conservation social sciences work that emphasize these themes. Our speakers will highlight the intersections across projects that we have found while attempting to integrate across projects, taxa (e.g., redband trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss gairdneri) and big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)), disciplines, and collaborations with multiple agency and community partners. We hope that in doing so we can foster a dialogue with attendees about what it means to integrate, how we can successfully achieve integration, and the role of project members across career stages in navigating integration across multidisciplinary projects.

Presentations:

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Collaboration and integration across scales, species, and disciplines: Graduate student perspectives

    Presenting Author: Megan Dolman – Boise State University

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    A Genome to Phenome investigation of a keystone sagebrush species

    Presenting Author: Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit – Boise State University

    Co-author: Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit – Boise State University

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    A microscopic year: Change in a sagebrush microbiome over time

    Presenting Author: Jacob A. Heil – Boise State University

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Interdisciplinary teams tackling complex challenges: An example from undergraduate training and research

    Presenting Author: Jessica R. Bernardin, n/a – Boise State University

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Observing local adaptation of sagebrush to soil microbes: an undergraduate's opportunity

    Presenting Author: Kaitlyn Opland – Boise State University

    Co-author: Marie-Anne deGraaff – Boise State University

    Co-author: Trevor Trevor Caughlin – Boise State University

    Co-author: Leonora S. Bittleston – Boise State University

    Co-author: Allison B. Simler-Williamson – Boise State University, Department of Biological Sciences

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Reflections of an Undergraduate Researcher in Collaborative Science

    Presenting Author: Harrah D. Friedlander – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Molly Garrett – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Lukas Grossfurthner – Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho

    Co-author: Lisette Waits, PhD – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Paul Hohenlohe, PhD – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Sanford D. Eigenbrode, PhD – Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, University of Idaho

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Exploring mechanisms behind team science and community interactions

    Presenting Author: Molly Garrett – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Paul Hohenlohe, PhD – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Lisette Waits, PhD – University of Idaho

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Synergy among scientists aids synergism study: redband trout resilience facing hypoxic and thermal stress

    Presenting Author: Carlie S. Sharpes, M.S. – The Klamath Tribes

    Co-author: Zhongqi Chen, PhD – University of Idaho

    Co-author: Brian C. Small, PhD – Aquaculture Research Institute

    Co-author: Christopher C. Caudill, PhD – University of Idaho

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Leveraging stakeholder and community partner engagement to better understand sagebrush steppe values and management concerns

    Presenting Author: Haley Netherton-Morrison – Boise State University

  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Discussion (until session ends)