Sarah Xenophon is a watershed technician in the Agriculture and Environment Center in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State. She creates large-scale watershed assessments and meets with farmers, land owners, municipalities and others to restore polluted or otherwise “sick” bodies of water in Pennsylvania. The center works with key stakeholders to proactively build partnerships to improve the health of Pennsylvania’s waterways, and by extension, the pollution problem in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. 

Read a recent Q&A with Sarah and see her video interview regarding her role in working with homeowners, farmers and municipalities to improve water quality. She works on large-scale watershed assessments that help municipalities prioritize on the ground projects. Sarah is able to work with localities to identify where project spending will result in the biggest payoffs.

She credits her PSU education and internships for her career path. Follow the link above for the full story on her important work.