Since 1977 Dr. Spencer Wood has worked to engage students in research projects and fieldwork. These unique opportunities have included projects such as investigations of the Borah Peak earthquake and explorations of the groundwater geology of the Boise area. He also has involved students in geologic mapping of the western Snake River Plain, Cuddy Mountain and Weiser areas, as well as archaeology and watersheds projects in northern Thailand. Dr. Wood served on the Coeur d’Alene Basin Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation Committee for the National Academy of Science. In the Fall of 2008, Dr. Wood was part of a team of Boise State scientists and students who, along with their collaborators at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, was selected to participate in the first round of the Geoscientists Without Borders program. This program uses geophysical technology to address the needs of communities around the world.
Articles
Northern Thailand Geothermal Resources and Development: A Review and 2012 Update (with Fongsaward Suvagondha Singharajwarapan, Natthaporn Prommakorn, and Lara Owens), Geothermal Resources Council, GRC Transactions (2012)
Northern Thailand has 16 hot spring systems with surface temperatures near or greater than 80°C...
The Establishment of a Geophysics Field Camp in Northern Thailand (with Lee Liberty, Kasper van Wijk, Emily A. Hinz, Dylan Mikesell, Fongsaward Singharajwarapan, and Jeffrey Shragge), The Leading Edge (2011)
As a participant in SEG's Geoscientists Without Borders program, we have developed a geophysics field...
Floodplain Sediment from a 100-Year-Recurrence Flood in 2005 of the Ping River in Northern Thailand (with A. D. Ziegler), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2008)
The tropical storm, floodwater, and the floodplain-sediment layer of a 100-year recurrence flood are examined...
Floodplain Deposits, Channel Changes and Riverbank Stratigraphy of the Mekong River Area at the 14th-Century City of Chiang Saen, Northern Thailand. (with Alan D. Ziegler and Tharaporn Bundarnsin), Geomorphology (2008)
Riverbank stratigraphy and paleochannel patterns of the Mekong River at Chiang Saen provide a geoarchaeological...
Fire and Ice in Central Idaho: Modern and Holocene Fires, Debris Flows, and Climate in the Payette River Basin, and Quaternary and Glacial Geology in the Sawtooth Mountains (with Jennifer L. Pierce, Grant A. Meyer, Glenn D. Thackray, Kari Lundeen, Jennifer A. Borgert, and Eric Rothwell), Open-File Report 2004-1222 (2004)
This 2-day trip will highlight recent fire and storm-related debris flows in the Payette River...