About Us
A group of PSU extension educators and faculty on a fact-finding visit to a well site.
Penn State Cooperative Extension’s Marcellus Education Team is a group of more than 40 county-based educators and faculty who are teaching about and researching the wide range of issues arising from Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling. We recognized how important an issue gas exploration could be for Pennsylvania landowners and communities when drilling company agents first started knocking on doors to secure leases to drill on private property, and conducted our first leasing workshops in 2001.
Since the creation of Cooperative Extension early in the past century, we have had significant educational and research expertise in agriculture and food systems, natural resources, family consumer sciences, youth development, and economic and community development. Marcellus Shale is a relatively new issue confronting Pennsylvania, but it potentially affects much of what our traditional expertise addresses- land use, water quality and quantity, economic development, forest management, wildlife, family finances, public policy, and local government. So even though Marcellus Shale is new, Penn State Cooperative Extension has the knowledge and expertise to help citizens, businesses, local leaders, communities, and others understand what it means for Pennsylvania, and how it may affect our environment, economy, communities, and citizens.
About Penn State Cooperative Extension
In every Pennsylvania community, Penn State Cooperative Extension’s county-based educators work in combination with Penn State University professors to provide informal education that helps people, communities, businesses, and government solve their problems and reach their fullest potential. Individual programs are available in select counties
