The Present
The college currently has 7 different academic units: Agricultural Education, Leadership and Communications; Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences; Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Nematology; Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences; Plant Sciences; and Soil and Water Systems. CALS also maintains extension offices in 42 of the 44 counties in the state of Idaho and offers 43 undergraduate and graduate degrees and nets around 40 million dollars of sponsored research annually.
As a liaison, I am in communication with around 80 faculty members on the Moscow campus, around 120 in Extension. So far, the majority of requests I have fielded are related to book requests, surveying current library holdings for new programs and creating open educational materials and holding workshops to introduce faculty members to Verso.
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2024 Scholarly Output Snapshot
To get a better sense of the work that CALS is involved in right now, I used the data from Web of Science to analyze the 308 works that were authored and co-authored by faculty members in 2024. Here are the leading authors, subjects, publishers and funding organizations:
| Authors | Count | Source Titles | Count | Author Keywords | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brenda Murdoch | 10 | Ecology and Evolution | 6 | Climate change 🌍🔥 | 18 |
| Paul Hohenlohe | 6 | Biocontrol | 5 | Biological control 🐞🌱 | 3 |
| Mark Schwarzläender | 6 | Nature Communications | 5 | Canada 🍁 | 3 |
| Michael S. Strickland | 6 | North American Journal of Fisheries Management | 5 | COVID-19 🦠 | 3 |
| Sanford Eigenbrode | 5 | Animals | 4 | Fuels ⛽🔥 | 3 |
| Michael Quist | 5 | Fire Ecology | 4 | Harvest 🌾 | 3 |
| Lisette Waits | 5 | Forest Ecology and Management | 4 | Invasive species 🐍 | 3 |
| Harpreet Kaur | 5 | Global Change Biology | 4 | Irrigation 💧 | 3 |
| Scientific Reports | 4 | LiDAR 🛰️ | 3 | ||
| Sustainability | 4 | Management 📊 | 3 | ||
| Affiliations | Count | Funding Organizations | Count | Research Areas | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | 100 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 25 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology 🌱🌍 | 88 |
| United States Forest Service | 41 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) | 17 | Agriculture 🚜 | 54 |
| Washington State University | 37 | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) | 13 | Plant Sciences 🌿 | 22 |
| University of California System | 29 | USDA NIFA (USDA) | 7 | Forestry 🌲 | 20 |
| United States Department of the Interior | 28 | U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) | 6 | Evolutionary Biology 🧬 | 18 |