tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:43:02 +0000living wallcancermagazinefood sciencefishgraduationag arenarecruitingbreedingcampaignbirdseventsinfectious diseasenatureartserviceurban gardeninggreenhousessafetyag scienceportraitschemical ecologychocolateextensionmachineryelmskidsfutureweathervisualizationbusinessice creamhorticultureturfgrass scienceaestheticsAg Progress Daysengineeringsustainable agholidaygypsy mothgrowth chambersbuildingobamaFarm ShowclassroompeopleiPhoneMillenium Science Complexdesignflowersmedievalclubswildlifeblackboardanimalsbiofuelschangeenvironmentwintermicromcpheron4Hgreen roofgreen wallbiologytreesnew facesfootballPenn StatearboretumBTforest scienceteachingscienceASIequine sciencebudgetgolfstudentsplantsmushroomsYouTubelivestockCCDenergyentomologywater quality3Dag researchtoxocologyCampushoneybeesdairy cowhistorymathematicshorsescolony collapse disorderalumnicreameryveterinary and biomedical sciencessnowlandscapebiodiesela photographer's view of ag research, science, and the landscape at Penn Statehttp://agtheory.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)Blogger154125TheoreticalAgriculturehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-7600126445342244397Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:09:00 +00002011-06-30T10:16:54.020-04:00food scienceExit the East Parking Deck, turn right, walk 10 yards and at a certain time in the morning you'll see this view of the Food Science Building at Penn State. This view passes quickly.I made this image with my iPhone using the Camera+ app. Amazing the kind of things you can produce with it. And best of all, it's almost always at hand.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/06/food-science-building-alternative-view.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-4113408409548075803Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:40:00 +00002011-03-09T14:45:57.349-05:00horticultureclubsflowersThe Hort Club provides flower arrangements to a variety of locations on campus. This is the current on in the lobby of Ag Administration Building. A lovely reminder that spring and a new season of growth is not far off.I'll post new pictures as new arrangements arrive. For more information visit the Horticulture Club or follow the club on Facebook.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/03/flowers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-6204434163726273657Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:15:00 +00002011-03-08T17:18:15.455-05:00historybudgetMorning on the University Park campus. Students are away on spring break. The sun shines through the cold air. Beaver Stadium and Mount Nittany stand watch in the distance. A new day. I came to work knowing that Governor Corbett would be announcing his budget later in the day. News reports characterized it as a "day of reckoning". At the end of the day Penn State faced a $182 million http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-4258217905944897771Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:44:00 +00002011-02-28T16:53:32.231-05:00CampustreeselmsFor years this Platanus occidentalis (a Sycamore tree) has watched silently as I passed by on my way to my office. It is a majestic tree standing between Henning Building and Ag Administration Building. Only recently have I been formally introduced and learned this tree has a name -- C464. I also know it is 44 inches in diameter, has a spread of 72 feet, and is 77 feet tall.I came across this http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/02/penn-state-trees.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-3286296441096118929Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:59:00 +00002011-02-11T13:27:16.899-05:00studentsag scienceSpencer Malloy, agroecology major, talks with student writer Natalie Jeanne Plumb last night in the Ag Sciences and Industries Building lobby. Malloy is answering questions for the Hall Talk feature in the college's Science for Your Life newspaper.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/02/science-for-your-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-5627721833163089052Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:21:00 +00002011-02-08T17:30:58.720-05:00ag researchgreenhousesWalking across campus I was struck by the play of light from inside and outside the greenhouse. As the temperature drops and winter continues research in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences continues.Surinder Chopra, associate professor of maize genetics, was recently awarded a $1 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture for his http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/02/walking-across-campus-i-was-struck-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-8373064268483253758Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:26:00 +00002011-02-03T21:31:07.593-05:00CampusASIWalking home this evening and I see a familiar Sycamore tree illuminated with warm light. Another reminder that spring is not far off. This tree grows in the area between Henning Building and Ag Administration Building.Campus slows as students and faculty head home for dinner, a quiet time before evening events begin.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/02/evening-sunset.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-2752337922301164113Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:05:00 +00002011-02-03T10:11:17.949-05:00ag researchgreenhousesturfgrass scienceEach morning on the way to my office I pass through the ASI greenhouses. It was nice to see some green grass, part of a turfgrass research project, and get a sense of warmer weather ahead.You can see some of the fog on the lens that forms in the humid air of the greenhouse on the edges of the pictures. Warm air and green grass. Nice.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-7284306484501278653Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:54:00 +00002011-02-01T13:12:34.694-05:00CampuswintergreenhousesThe warm glow of a greenhouse is always a welcome site on a cold day. Popped inside to make a few quick photographs of the turf research underway but the temperature and humidity change fogged up my camera. I'll return on another day when I have more time.Work on Penn State Ag Science Magazine and a few other writing projects have kept me from pursuing more active images of research. Hopefullyhttp://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/02/warm-and-cold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-8499084478337237282Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:27:00 +00002011-01-29T10:31:06.010-05:00winterbuildingsnowAt work early today and saw a group of students on their way somewhere on a Saturday morning. With Ground Hog Day arriving next week I sure hope that little guy doesn't see his shadow.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/01/students-brave-snow-on-saturday-morning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-3066620358337755566Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:14:00 +00002011-01-28T15:17:22.077-05:00CampuswinterView out the window of the parking deck looking past the Food Science Building and ASI greenhouses towards Ag Administration Building. Another dusting of snow last night keeps the illusion of winter going. Stopped in the greenhouse to make a few pictures of lush, green experiments but my camera promptly fogged from the heat and humidity. So I can't share the relief from gray that I saw...http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/01/one-more-gray-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-3732211244173199937Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:02:00 +00002011-01-27T15:13:23.748-05:00CampuswinterAs the end of January nears a person can grow tire of the cold, snow, and sunlight starved days. That person is me.A brief pause in the parking lot this morning watching students rush back and forth to class along Curtain Road. Places to go and things to do. As I stand wishing for warm weather I remember a quote I came across yesterday:We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/01/seize-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-4371730603584304925Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:12:00 +00002011-01-26T10:14:02.901-05:00wintersnowI waited for 10 minutes for someone to walk through this scene behind the Food Science Building. Perhaps on another day...http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/01/view-from-east-parking-deck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-6833053978316079503Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:46:00 +00002011-01-25T14:49:48.237-05:00buildinggreenhousesOne of the greenhouses attached to ASI Building. Pass by often but this time the texture and light caught my eye.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/01/abstract-greenhouse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-6249566899530045336Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:49:00 +00002011-01-24T16:01:35.908-05:00buildingA quiet moment in the usually busy lobby of the Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2011/01/lobby-of-asi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-2418656844664808626Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:42:00 +00002010-12-01T17:45:13.117-05:00CampusweatherReturning from an assignment in the Food Science Building looking northwest past ASI Building towards the Arboretum. Just a dusting of snow but enough to remind of things to come.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/12/first-snow-on-ag-hill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-5400527897757760363Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:50:00 +00002010-08-10T14:06:57.387-04:00CampusflowersDespite the heat the landscape has remained lush on Penn State's University Park campus. Walking across campus yesterday I was impressed by the variety of vegetation and flowers in bloom. This along the sidewalk between Tyson Building and the Life Science Building.The students are beginning to return for fall semester but around 9am the sidewalks are still almost empty. This rider had an http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/08/hot-summer-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-5944540610732564479Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:17:00 +00002010-06-17T09:28:17.295-04:00biofuelsenergybiodieselGreg Roth, Professor of Agronomy in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, stands in a field of canola just down the road from Beaver Stadium. The planting is part of ongoing energy crop work. Other crops planted nearby are sugar beets and camelina.Near the University Park Airport are 40 acres of canola now in full bloom. This stand of canola is part of a variety trial. The overcast day madehttp://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/06/bioenergy-and-bright-yellow-field-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-7806178135367044350Tue, 18 May 2010 20:25:00 +00002010-05-19T08:04:50.324-04:00flowersPurple flowers in a garden planting outside the Agricultural Science and Industries Building. I should know what they are but my flower experience is limited solely to appreciation...http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/05/purple-flowers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-7392847667334128226Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:20:00 +00002010-04-27T17:38:53.790-04:00environmentAt the end of a photo assignment, packing the gear and wondering how to get all the mud off my boots. On the left is Ag Science student Cory Chelko, our model for the day. Tarrah Geszvain, Advising and Counseling assistant in the ERM program, and Stacie Bird, production assistant in Ag Communications had to deal with the big white reflectors on this day.Cory was a trooper as he put up with my http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/04/environmental-resource-management-photo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-4096330370807639492Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:16:00 +00002010-04-22T16:21:00.900-04:00portraitsMorning light shining on the pink Dell laptop caught my eye while I was waiting for a delegation of Asian visitors. At the computer is Laura Allen, senior in Animal Sciences.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/04/at-creamery-pink-dell-computer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-3049220135582692571Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:53:00 +00002010-03-24T11:07:15.941-04:00magazineMy position in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State has expanded. In addition to being a photographer, I've become the new editor of our magazine. After working through a redesign and the production process I am happy to say the first issue of the new magazine is in the mail and on its way to our readers.I’m also pleased to announce the release of the new Penn State Ag Science http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-magazine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-3631977006857794481Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:47:00 +00002010-02-20T14:05:37.453-05:00studentsSaturday morning there were thousands of people in the Bryce Jordan Center for THON, the the largest student-run philanthropy in the world! I was trying to find four Ag Science student dancers. Like looking for a needle in a haystack.After getting my credentials and getting down to the floor the search began.After about 20 minutes I found Krystal Bealing who was dancing for Delta Theta Sigma.http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/02/2010-thon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-102878402671193540Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:37:00 +00002010-02-11T13:01:22.568-05:00teachingag researchmagazineThe first issue of the College's redesign of Penn State Agriculture magazine will soon be heading to the printer. Some of the last things to complete are a series of institutional ads. These new items will reflect the College community's involvement in one of our key areas of focus. Stacie Bird stood in for lighting tests as we prepared to create photos concieved by art director Jonathan http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/02/ad-shoots-for-penn-state-agscience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013534860604207961.post-8088344294905802634Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:49:00 +00002010-02-09T19:55:59.580-05:00CampusIt's always nice to see a smiling face. This one was covering the sign in front of the University House not far from Old Main. While no longer the home of Penn State's president it does serve in part as office space for the staff of the Penn Stater magazine. I bet editor Tina Hay came out and created the smiley face to welcome visitors.Even if she didn't it is worth a visit to the Penn Stater http://agtheory.blogspot.com/2010/02/smiley-face.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Williams)1