# Episode 19 - The Soil Explorers

United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Partners Video Magazine Partners 19 - The Soil Explorers The quest to understand the secrets of earth's living skin. Preview (:31) Entire Program (31:27) Microbial Observatory Researcher Jo Handelsman runs microbial observatories in Wisconsin and Alaska and studies underground microbes detrimental to healthy soil. (11:44) Vineyard Wizards UC-Berkeley's Yoram Rubin is helping California wine growers map precious water vital to growing the best grapes by using earth-penetrating radar. (8:25) Serious Sediment Rutgers' Donna Fennell is reclaiming chlorine-contaminated sediments in New Jersey's urban Meadowlands through smart environmental engineering and microbiological enrichment. (6:28)

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2007
- By: USDA
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.usda.crees.partners.19.a)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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