Welcome Tyler Groh to Penn State Extension

Tyler was born and raised in Wisconsin. Growing up in the Dairy State, Tyler was surrounded by agriculture and natural resources. He was fascinated with the agricultural system, and knew he wanted to be a part of it from an early age.

After high school, Tyler knew he wanted to learn more about soil and water resources. He attended and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point with a bachelor of science degree in Watershed Management. For his graduate work, Tyler attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for his master's degree and Iowa State University for his Ph.D. and postdoc. He spent this time researching agricultural conservation practices to reduce nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) and sediment loss from agricultural fields in the tile drained region of the Midwest. Specifically, Tyler looked at constructed wetlands, woodchip bioreactors, riparian buffers, and saturated buffers. Each of these practices were installed on private land, offering Tyler an opportunity to interact with producers. These interactions, as well as the opportunity to give talks at Iowa State Extension events across the state, were memorable to Tyler in his graduate training.

Tyler is excited to start his new position at Penn State University, and is eager to travel around the state to get to know the ins and outs of Pennsylvania agriculture as well as the people that are crucial to helping sustain this system. Tyler looks forward to hearing and learning from producers, landowners, and other stakeholders in Pennsylvania's water quality, and will help provide science-based education and resources to both agricultural water and urban stormwater quality issues. To start, Tyler looks forward to helping establish and research riparian buffers that can act as filters for either agricultural or urban land uses. Feel free to reach out to him if you have any questions or requests for extension-related resources.