Crop and Soil Sciences Resource List
Departments at Other Universities
Multimedia
- ARS Image Gallery
- This Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
- Instructional Resource Server
- The Instructional Resource Server is a source of images, video clips, and other multimedia resources for teaching and other presentations. This server is currently in the development stage.
- PSU Education Technology Services (E.T.S.)
- Computer-based courseware and other materials developed by Penn State faculty and Center for Acacemic Computing staff.
- Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Photo Gallery
- The NRCS Photo Gallery contains natural resource and conservation related photos from across the USA. The Gallery is a joint project between NRCS Conservation Communications and the NRCS Information Technology Center in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Agronomic Links
- Pennsylvania Agronomic Education Society
- The Pennsylvania Agronomic Education Society promote the dissemination of useful and practical information regarding all forms of plant food, soil amendments, plant protectants, plant genetics, biotechnology, soil conservation, economics of new technology, and their application to crop production of all kinds of promoting cultural practices that would improve crop productivity, enhance farm profitability, and maintain environmental quality.
- Penn State Turfgrass In Space
- Read about the Penn State turfgrass seed that was on board the space shuttle, STS-90, in 1998.
- The Pennsylvania Turfgrass Council
- Promotes professionalism in all facets of the turfgrass industry.
- The Pennsylvania Association of Professional Soil Scientists (PAPSS)
- The Homepage for the Pennsylvania Association of Professional Soil Scientists. Includes a list of soil consultants.
- Penn State Soil Characterization Database
- The Pennsylvania State University Soil Characterization Database System and Pennsylvania Soil Characterization Data.
- Penn State’s Life Science Consortium.
- This page lists options for the graduate program in Integrative Biosciences.
- Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Laboratory USDA-ARS
- Their home page. Headquartered in the Pasture Lab building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
- AgriGator Ag Sites
- An Index of Agricultural and Related Information.
- NSCSS Soil Science Links.
- The National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists manages a
page of links to everything soils.
- ASA/CSSA/SSSA.
- The collective home page for the
American Society of Agronomy,
Crop Science Society of America, and the
Soil Science Society of America.
- Agronomic Links Across the Globe
- A collection of WWW and Gopher sites that offer information about crops, soils, and environmental issues.
- Dirtland
- Michigan State University’s Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology has a Microbial Zoo, including our favorite, Dirtland.
- The Goddard Space Center's "Soil Science Education Home Page"
- Learn all about soils found in the United States and all over the world. Find out why soils and soil science are important to everyone.
- National Grassland Research Institute
- The National Grassland Research Institute is a governmental research center responsible for the implementation of basic and advanced research covering fields such as development, management, production and utilization of grassland and forage plants for promoting grassland farming based on the land resources and climatic conditions prevailing in Japan.
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Forage Crop Diseases
- Information and photographs of the symptoms and causal agents of forage crop diseases.
Information About:
Mailing Address:
Dept. of Crop & Soil Sciences
116 ASI Building
University Park, PA 16802-3504
Phone: +1-814-865-6541
Fax: +1-814-863-7043
David Sylvia, Department Head