Land, Water and Air on Instead

Listen to interesting, accessible research conversations with faculty and students discussing the latest research impacting land, water, and air.

Turfgrass: The Holy Grail of Water Conservation

Dr. Kopp’s specialty is in resource positive landscaping, that is, building landscapes that give more than they take. The surprising news is that resource positive landscaping, also known as xeriscaping (not xeroscaping!), doesn’t preclude lush green gras...

Zoned & Watered with Jake Powell

As small Utah towns change, Jake focuses on how towns and cities which have the potential to boom during amenity-migration, can use policy to protect their tightly held identities as they work to evolve and prevent future diminishment.

Crafting Ideals & Outdoor Spaces

David Anderson, a landscape architect with USU’s Department of Landscape Architect and Environmental Planning and USU extension, walks us through the difference between an architect, a landscape architect, and a civil engineer.

After the Smoke Clears

Patrick's research focuses on a fires interaction with the landscape that surrounds it, specifically how it affects water formations.

Through Watershed Eyes

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Nancy Messner, Professor of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University. She explains to us how rivers run through urban areas and affect the pollution, as well as algae blooms running over Utah Lakes.

Looking Out for the Quaking Aspen

This episode of Instead talks about Pando, the near and “deer” grove of 47,000 aspen trees in Richmond, Utah. Pando is a clonal colony of a single quaking aspen.

Digging in to Where We Are

This episode features our interview with Natural Resource sociologist Dr. Courtney Flint. Dr. Flint was going to be a part of our Research Landscapes event and share with us her research of how people of all backgrounds relate to the mountain communities ...