WEST LAFAYETTE, IN (November 15, 2024) – The Living Landscapes podcast, hosted by undergraduate and graduate student staff with the Purdue University Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), launches today. This podcast delves into the fascinating world of landscape architecture, exploring how this field can help create thriving communities and sustainable environments. Listeners can…Read more about New Podcast Explores the Intersection of Community and Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture[Read More]
The HLA Fall Celebration at Meigs was a huge success! Thank you to all contestants who participated in the food competitions and all others who came with good vibes. Stephen Meyers was the winner of the chili cook off, Chloe Henscheid was the winner of the cornbread competition, and Helen Nocito was the winner of the dessert…Read more about HLA Fall Celebration[Read More]
It’s a misty Thursday morning, we’ve had a little under 0.4 inches of rain, and the last of the oranges and reds are fading from the trees. There’s song sparrows in the wetland, and copious amounts of mud everywhere else. In case anyone was wondering, it is November indeed. Lots of harvesting underway this week!…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Members of the Hoagland Lab attended the ASA, CSSA & SSSA Tri Society Meeting 2024 in San Antonio, Texas: Henrique Petry presented his talk “Understanding the impact of tomato domestication on rhizosphere metabolites and root microbiomes”, and his poster “Impact of nanoplastics on rhizosphere microbiomes and rhizosphere metabolites in tomato and lettuce.” Lily Berry Presented…Read more about Hoagland Lab Attends ASA, CSSA & SSSA Meeting[Read More]
Purdue Horticulture Business, led by Dr. Ariana Torres has developed an online tool, HortCalculator, to provide crop- and farm-specific financial analyses. The team just launched the webinar series to provide farmers with tools to help monitor profit and expenses, assess the cost-efficiency investments, and understand the impact of biological controls. For more information and future webinars: https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/hortbusiness/projects/hortcalculator/
This week at the Soil Science Society of America in San Antonio, Anna Paltseva presented 3 talks where she explored the public health and socioeconomic impacts of heavy metal contamination in Lafayette, Louisiana soils, discussed the development of urban soil health indicators for resilient ecosystems, and introduced The Urban Soil Guide as a community resource to advance…Read more about Dr. Anna Paltseva Presented at Soil Science Society of America[Read More]
Ashley Adair presented “The Dirt… on soil health, cover crops, and the bottom line” at private applicator recertification programs in Clark, Harrison, and Washington Counties on 11/12/2024. The talk covered soil health, N-credits from cover crops, and organic transition (an unusual topic for a PARP meeting!). Across the three events, Ashley reached approximately 100 farmers….Read more about Ashley Adair Presented at Private Applicator Recertification Programs in Southern Indiana[Read More]
Professor Handa’s Group has published a new referred manuscript entitled “**Unlocking the role of novel primary/di-amine oxidases in crop improvement: Tissue specificity leads to specific roles connected to abiotic stress, hormone responses and sensing nitrogen” in Journal of Plant Physiology 153 (2024) 154374, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2024.154374** Summary: This investigation provided new insights to the roles of copper amine oxidation…Read more about Dr. Avtar Handa’s Group Publishes New Manuscript[Read More]
Anna Paltseva co-authored a new article in Environmental Geochemistry and Health: Application of a new multi-elevation method for determining the elemental composition of atmospheric precipitation in coastal marine zones.
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