Professor Gribb earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and was formerly an associate professor at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Gribb received a NSF CAREER award, and an ARO young investigator award while at South Carolina. In May 2008, Dr. Gribb was awarded the Boise State Foundation Scholar Award for Research. Dr. Gribb is director of the Boise State Center for Environmental Sensing.
Her current research, supported by a NASA EPSCoR grant, focuses on the relationships between soil hydraulic properties and soil moisture distributions on the hillslope scale.
She recently completed a multidisciplinary research project sponsored by the EPA to develop multi-purpose sensors to detect and analyze environmental contaminants. Her research group developed a compact ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) system to be used for measuring gaseous volatile organic compounds in unsaturated soils. In October 2008, the IMS tied for first place in the Innovation of the Year/Early-Stage Technology of the Stoel Rives Idaho Innovation Award Competition - the first time that a university entry has won this award. The EPA award led to a follow up field demonstration project supported by URS that showed the potential of the device to detect contaminants of concern at a gasoline spill site.
Dr. Gribb participated in 2005-08 $9-million dollar statewide NSF-EPSCoR research and infrastructure improvement grant that included funds to support for a new faculty position in civil engineering and the expansion of her unsaturated zone soils lab.
Dr. Gribb has taught introduction to civil engineering, civil engineering case studies, hazardous waste engineering, groundwater contaminant transport, hydrogeology, vadose zone hydrology, senior design and research methods courses while at Boise State. She is a licensed professional engineer in Idaho.
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