Summer/Fall 2022

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Winter rye crop

Andy Yencha, a water resources educator based in the Cumberland County Penn State Extension office, right, speaks with Alex Arcuri, MS4/GIS coordinator for East Pennsboro Township.

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A group of local community volunteers plants a riparian buffer as part of the Greening the Lower Susquehanna volunteer program.

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Jennifer Fetter, water resources team leader, speaks with a young volunteer

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Data logger box connected to the soil moisture sensors installed in an experimental tomato field.

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A fertigation manifold installed in the experimental tomato field.

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Researchers Long He, Haozhe Zhang, and Francesco Di Gioia.

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A leaf sensor.

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Doctoral candidate Katherine Blocklove works in a Curtin Road greenhouse on Penn State’s University Park campus, carefully extracting intact root systems from a unique below-ground growing setup.