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T H UR SDAY, O C TO B E R 16, 2014
A long journey
Hospitals take
more Ebola
precautions
By Journal Staff and wire reports
Photos courtesy of Benjamin Crosby
The Crosby family van parked at Torres del Paine, a UNESCO biosphere reserve located near the tip of South America in the Chilean
Patagonia region. View a photo gallery at isuvoice.com.
ISU professor returns
from adventures in Chile
By Andrew Taylor
Idaho State University
Idaho State University Associate Professor of Geosciences
Benjamin Crosby has spent the
start of fall semester readjusting to normal life in Pocatello
after a year filled with foreign
and scientific adventures.
Crosby served as a Fulbright
scholar and visiting professor
in Chile, completed a 15,000mile drive home with his family
and saw his research earn international publicity and jokes
by Jimmy Fallon on late-night
TV.
“Half the time I feel like I am
sleep-walking through the familiar because I’ve been doing
this for the last seven years, but
at times my life feels entirely
new and different being home,”
Crosby said.
Fulbright/
visiting
professorship
Crosby
spent
August
to
December 2013 serving his
Fulbright at the Universidad
de Concepción in Concepción,
Chile, and developing curriculum. He visited various faculty
and students and inquired what
their needs were to fill the biggest gap in their curriculum.
The need was apparent.
“They wanted a course on
landslides, about slope stability and hill-slope hazards that
would help them in identifying places that are at risk and
to help them make decisions
about how to engineer proper
structures to prevent or limit Crosby family on the rim of the still-steaming Chaitén Caldera,
damage if they made a road cut which erupted in 2008 in south central Chile. Associated landslides
or did construction on a slope,” partially destroyed the small city of Chaitén.
Crosby said.
Crosby, who went to Chile “We stopped at must-see places ... and
with his wife, Cana, daughter
Dylan, 14, and son Wells, 12, embraced all the little adventures
taught his courses in English — along the way like eating street food
a requirement of the Fulbright in front of cathedrals or getting
— to students whose primary
caught in a celebratory traffic jam
language is Spanish.
“A big part of my effort was after Colombian World Cup victory.”
learning to teach a technical course to people who had ISU Associate Professor of Geosciences
See Crosby, A5 Benjamin Crosby
The Ebola situation in the U.S. took another
alarming turn Wednesday with word that a
second Dallas nurse caught the disease from a
patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an
airliner the day before she fell ill, even though
government guidelines should have kept her
off the plane.
Though it was not clear how the nurse contracted the virus, the case represented just the
latest instance in which the disease that has
ravaged one of the poorest corners of the earth
— West Africa — also managed to find weak
spots in one of the world’s most advanced
medical systems.
Hospitals in East Idaho are doing everything they can to keep a similar occurrence
from happening here.
“We have very clear guidelines when it
comes to treating patients who are in isolation.
It is something our staff are trained on and will
be given even more training due to this recent
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Idaho hopefuls
face off in
Boise debate
Kimberlee Kruesi
Associated Press
BOISE — Idaho’s gubernatorial candidates
wasted no time throwing jabs at one another
during Tuesday’s debate, with all the candidates starting and ending the night slinging
attacks at each other’s responses on the state’s
economic health, education funding and
same-sex marriage.
Republican Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter repeated arguments Tuesday evening that he
has often used in prior debates pointing out
that his opponents, primarily Democratic
nominee and businessman A.J. Balukoff, did
not have the experience or the knowledge to
take over the office.
“My opponents have lofty goals and have
ideas about what they think they can do, but
they won’t be able to articulate the specifics,”
Otter said.
It was the first televised gubernatorial debate Steve Pankey had participated in since
announcing his bid for the office. Libertarian
candidate John Bujak, who has typically participated in this election season’s debates, was
told by debate host KTVB that he did not meet
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VA recognizes Judge Carnaroli’s efforts to help vets
By Debbie Bryce
For the Journal
POCATELLO — Sixth
District Magistrate Rick
Carnaroli said he was surprised and honored by a
special recognition from the
Veterans Administration in
Salt Lake City.
Carnaroli was acknowl-
edged for his work with
the local Veterans Court on
Wednesday, but he said he
was being given too much
credit. In turn, Carnaroli
recognized the program’s
administrative staff, mentors
and clients for the success of
the intervention plan.
“I’ll accept on behalf of all
of you,” Carnaroli said dur-
ing Wednesday’s presentation of the VA award.
Veterans Administration
Chief of Mental Health in
Salt Lake City Scott Hill
presented Carnaroli with the
Above and Beyond Visionary award, and he thanked
the judge for the partnership
between the 6th District
See Judge, A5
Judge Rick
Carnaroli receives
congratulations
and a plaque
from Veterans
Administration
Chief of Mental
Health in Salt Lake
City Scott Hill.
Veterans
statistics
The U.S. Department
of Justice reports
that 10 percent of
prison populations
are veterans, and
26 percent of those
inmates reportedly
saw combat duty.
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Continued from A1
“Preservation of a Preglacial
Landscape Under the Center
of the Greenland Ice Sheet,”
characterized a 2.7-millionyear-old soil found beneath
an ice sheet that is nearly 2
miles deep.
Though Crosby did not
work with the icy soils from
Greenland, he provided an
analogous analysis of chemical compositions from a
long-stable tundra soil in
northern Alaska. Crosby, supported by the
National Science Foundation, has been working in the
Arctic for the past six years.
Through a comparison to the
Alaskan soil, the team was
able to confirm that “the soil
beneath the ice sheet had
been stable and exposed at
the surface for somewhere
between 200,000 and 1 million years before being covered by ice,” Crosby said.
“The age and maturity of
the soil is what made news,”
he said. “Normally we think
of glaciers as highly erosive
and carving out the landscape. What you typically
find under active glaciers is
scoured or ground up bedrock; you would not expect
to find mature soil material
preserved under a feature as
active as the Greenland ice
sheet.”
The research received
publicity in outlets as varied
as the Wall Street Journal
and NBC News to yahoo.
com.
“Jimmy Fallon on the
Late Night Show made fun
of us in a nice, tough way,
saying ‘scientists found dirt
underneath the ice,’ like
‘who cares, it is obvious
there is dirt underneath ice
in Greenland,’” Crosby said.
“He got a good, fun jab at
us.”
that outlines how to prepare
for long-distance international travel by car and took
a practice trip to Baja, Mexico over spring break. Then,
after moving the Chile, they
prepared more earnestly.
“We bought a 1985 Volkswagen camper van, fixed it
up over a matter of months,
then drove down to the tip
of South America, exploring Patagonia, Argentina
and Chile, and then turned
around and continued all
the way north back home to
Idaho,” Crosby said.
The trip was filled with
adventures big and small,
good and bad, but the family
made the 15,000-mile, fourmonth trek home, managing
to get to a family reunion on
time, despite the fact Crosby
had to have the van’s broken
transmission fixed and then
entirely replaced during a
three-week delay in a remote
village on a primitive road
near Corcovado National
Park in Costa Rica.
“We didn’t drive every
day, all day, and we drove
slow and avoided driving at
night if the roads weren’t
good,” Crosby said. “We
stopped at must-see places
like Machu Picchu or Lake
Titicaca, and embraced all
the little adventures along
the way like eating street
food in front of cathedrals or
getting caught in a celebratory traffic jam after Colombian World Cup victory.”
From the tip of South
America up to Pocatello the
family experienced everything from the grandeur
of the granite spires and
glaciers of the Torres del
Paine biosphere reserve in
Patagonia to a tropical sailing trip between Columbia
to Panama. They were also
chased by monkeys and saw
fresh alligator tracks on a
remote beach. The family
lived out of the camper van
the entire trip and are much
closer as a consequence.
“I never dreamed I would
do anything like this,”
Crosby said. “It didn’t even
make the bucket list because
it was so unlikely and farfetched.”
The family chronicled
much of their adventurous
drive home in their blog: jokersinjubilee.blogspot.com.
English as a second language,” Crosby said. “I had
to balance the way I taught
to reach as many of the students as possible.”
The university where he
taught was very modern,
as was the entire country
— something the professor
described as “the shock of
the familiar.”
“The most surprising
thing about moving to Chile
was just how much like the
United States it was,” Crosby
said. “It has big cities, giant
skyscrapers, great public
transportation, fast Internet,
modern malls and cinemas
where you can watch the
first-run movies. Compared
to any other country in South
America, it is the most like
the United States.”
After serving his Fulbright, Crosby stayed at
Universidad de Concepción
as a visiting faculty member
on sabbatical and focused on
completing the field research
he started during his Fulbright. His research focused
on collecting data on the
daily cycles that occur naturally in three different rivers
spread across Chile’s different ecotypes, including the
high Andes, temperate forest
and subalpine environments.
“I focused on measuring
how stream characteristics
that cycle on a 24-hour
schedule such as flow, turbidity or temperature vary
as you move from the headwaters downstream,” Crosby
said. “These data could be
used to guide the engineering design of future dams
so that they may replicate
these natural signals, thus
diminishing their impact on The long trek
downstream ecosystems.”
Crosby and his family
Chile has some of the most elected not to take the conpristine rivers remaining in ventional flight back home
the world, and the country following their time in South
has already dammed many, America.
resulting in some negative “We had the crazy idea
consequences, and is con- of driving home from Chile,
sidering damming more to and didn’t really commit
create more hydropower for to doing it until about six
its growing economy.
months before we left,”
Crosby was compelled by Crosby said. the idea that if we under- Before leaving Pocatello,
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Court and the VA.
Veterans Court has been up and running in the 6th District for the past two
years and the program has graduated six
participants.
Carnaroli believes in second chances
when it’s appropriate, and he said it not
only benefits veterans, but it also saves
taxpayers’ dollars.
“There are people who we believe are
dangerous and we have to send them to
prison to protect society,” Carnaroli said.
“But most of these guys just need help.
Chances are they aren’t going to get treatment for PTSD or (traumatic brain injury)
in prison.”
Carnaroli said while it costs taxpayers
about $22,000 per year to house an inmate,
it costs just $4,100 to put a veteran who
has committed a crime into 18 months in
the Veterans Court program. Defendants
charged with misdemeanor crimes are
in the program for 18 months and felony
cases commit to a two-year program.
Veterans Court addresses substance
abuse issues through supervised probation and regular drug testing. Veterans
Court also works to help vets access resources to cope with post-traumatic stress
disorder, traumatic brain injury and other
service-related health concerns.
The program directs military veterans
dealing with homelessness to transitional
housing and counselors assist with employment and educational options.
The expansion of intervention programs like veterans, drug, mental health
and domestic violence courts indicates
that they’re working, according to officials
in the court system.
Veterans Court meets weekly at noon in
Carnaroli’s courtroom where he discusses
their weeks and makes sure they are staying on track.
Screening for Veterans Court starts
at booking, and most local attorneys are
aware of the program, Carnaroli said. But
he warns that Veterans Court is not a “get
out of jail free” card. Participants are held
accountable, honesty is the first rule, and
violent offenders are excluded from the
program.
The veterans are encouraged to socialize and network within the group and in
the community, and they help each other
be successful.
“These guys have each other’s back,”
Carnaroli said. “They help each other with
rides, jobs. There is a camaraderie.”
Sy Williams, liaison for the VA in Utah,
said Veterans Courts have been established throughout Idaho and the nation.
The court acts as a referral service of
sorts that helps veterans get the help they
need by utilizing benefits through the VA.
Williams said Carnaroli also helped to set
up a free legal aid program for veterans.
The Idaho Service Members and Veterans Legal Clinic will be held the third
Wednesday of each month from 5:30 to
7 p.m. at the Veterans Sanctuary on the
third floor of the Pond Student Union
Building.
Veterans can consult with an attorney
free of charge during the clinics, which
are sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Idaho State Bar and ISU Veterans
Sanctuary.
George Woodman is the commander
of the American Legion and a mentor in
Veterans Court, and he said he believes
that their service to country entitles the
veterans to a second chance.
“They served their country honorably,”
Woodman said. “What we try to do for
veterans is filter them into the VA system
where they can address issues like PTSD,
which they most likely have not been
treated for.”
Steve Blair, a U.S. Navy veteran, also
serves as a Veterans Court mentor and
he said the experience of U.S. military
personnel creates some special circumstances for veterans and the court helps
them to utilize resources available to
them.
Blair said the court works with the Department of Labor to get veterans back to
work — in some cases by accessing federal jobs with priority hiring for veterans.
“It gives them an opportunity to find
out where the problems lie and to address
them,” Blair said.
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