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Two men pour water into a device planted in the ground to measure infiltration rates

Sea Grant Middletown

Travis Peters, front, a recent Penn State graduate, and Jonathan Fischer, a Penn State Harrisburg student, use equipment in the yard of the Middletown Area Historical Society in July 2022 to gather data on how much water the soil can store. 

Two men pour water into a device planted in the ground to measure infiltration rates

Penn State Harrisburg team investigates the cause, impact of Middletown flooding

Through a $120,000 Pennsylvania Sea Grant, Clark, along with Anthony Buccitelli, associate professor of American studies and communications, and Jeffrey Tolbert, assistant professor of American studies and folklore, are pursuing an interdisciplinary research project combining engineering and ethnography to examine flooding in the Middletown community.