Pennsylvania Research Locations

• University Park, PA

• Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research: Our mission is to support environmentally and economically sustainable farming in the northeastern U.S. by improving agroecosystem management. Major research efforts include: 1. Developing fundamental information for establishing, maintaining, and managing diverse forage and grazing lands, (More)

• Wyndmoor, PA

• Eastern Regional Research Center:
• Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens: The Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research Unit maintains a commitment to high quality basic and applied research to (1) address the needs of regulatory agencies, the food industry, the scientific community, and the consumer to ensure a safe food supply with an extended (More)
• Microbial and Chemical Food Safety: The mission of the Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research Unit is to develop innovative, highly effective, efficient, and robust methods of chemical analysis, microbial predictive models and methods, and novel intervention and packaging technologies to mitigate risks, enhance quality, extend (More)
• Dairy and Functional Foods Research: The Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit solves critical problems in utilization of milk and of fruit and vegetable byproducts from specialty crops by creating new concepts in science and technology to develop high-quality, value-added functional foods and consumer products that help improve (More)
• Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research: The Sustainable Biofuels and CoProducts Research Unit develops methods to increase sustainability in biorefining and crop production. We develop chemical, catalytic, thermal, enzymatic, and fermentative technologies to convert low value agricultural materials into novel high value sustainable (More)
• Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Research: Research is conducted to protect the health of the public through the development and validation of novel process interventions to improve the safety and shelf-life of foods. • Determine the incidence and prevalence of microbial contaminants in food • Develop and validate non-thermal and (More)

National Programs in Pennsylvania

• Food Safety (animal and plant products) (108)
• Water Availability and Watershed Management (211)
• Soil and Air (212)
• Grass, Forage, and Rangeland Agroecosystems (215)
• Sustainable Agricultural Systems Research (216)
• Product Quality and New Uses (306)

• Appropriated Projects in Pennsylvania

  • Managing Water Resources to Foster the Sustainable Intensification of Agroecosystems in the Northeastern U.S. ( Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research )
  • Comprehensive Environmental Framework to Facilitate Resilient and Sustainable Intensification of Crop-Livestock Systems ( Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research )
  • Developing Climate-Smart Forage and Animal Management Strategies and Precision Technologies for Integrated Crop-Pasture-Livestock Systems in the Northeast ( Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research )
  • Incidence of Bacterial Pathogens in Regulated Foods and Applied Processing Technologies for Their Destruction ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
  • Validation and Commercialization of Innovative Processing Technologies ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
  • Detection, Quantification and Characterization Technologies for Foodborne Pathogens ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
  • Molecular Analysis of Foodborne Pathogen Responses to Stressors ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
  • Mitigation of Foodborne Pathogens in Water and Fresh Produce via Application of Biochar ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
  • Development and Validation of Predictive Models and Pathogen Modeling Programs; and Data Acquisition for International Microbial Databases ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
  • Technology Development, Evaluation and Validation for the Detection and Characterization of Chemical Contaminants in Foods ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
  • Innovative Detection and Intervention Technologies Mitigating Shellfish-borne Pathogens ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
  • Integration and Validation of Alternative and Multiple Intervention Technologies to Enhance Microbial Safety, Quality, and Shelf-life of Food ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
  • Advanced Methods for Predictive Modeling of Bacterial Growth and Survival in Foods ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
  • In vitro Human Gut System: Interactions Between Diet, Food Processing, and Microbiota ( Dairy and Functional Foods Research )
  • New Bioactive Dairy Products for Health-Promoting Functional Foods ( Dairy and Functional Foods Research )
  • Reclaiming Value from Coproducts of Dairy Food Manufacture ( Dairy and Functional Foods Research )
  • Chemical Conversion of Biomass into High Value Products ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
  • Integrated Biological/Chemical Biorefining for Production of Chemicals and Fuels ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
  • Thermo-Catalytic Biorefining ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
  • Commercial Products from Lipids and Fibers ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
  • Production, Utilization, and Importance of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Sustainable Agriculture ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )