Delaware State Coordinators

John Clendaniel

Delaware State University Cooperative Extension
Washington Center, Room 115A
1200 N. DuPont Highway
Dover, DE 19901
Phone: (302) 857-6425
Fax: (302) 857-6430
Email: jclendan@desu.edu

John Clendaniel coordinates the SARE program at Delaware State University. He works as a Farm Management Specialist and Interim Coordinator for the Small Farms Program at Delaware State University. John Clendaniel has worked at Delaware State University Cooperative Extension since 1999. As Small Farms Program Coordinator John develops and implements programs that meet the needs of small and limited resource family farmers.

John is also on the steering/advisory committee for the Delaware/Maryland Agrability Program, and is a member of the NRCS state technical committee. John has a BS in Agribusiness from Delaware State University. His research interests include pole lima beans, high tunnel tomato varieties, and other production methods that can to help small farmers increase profitability.

Susan White-Hansen

University of DE SARE Coordinator

Research and Education Center
University of Delaware
16483 County Seat Hwy.
Georgetown, DE 19947
Phone: (302) 856-2585 ext. 516
Fax: (302) 856-1845
Email: sewhite@udel.edu

Susan White-Hansen coordinates the University of Delaware SARE program. She joined the University of Delaware in 2005 and serves as the Precision Agriculture Specialist. Susan's responsibilities in this position include conducting educational programs, applied field research, and field demonstrations in Precision Agriculture. She also teaches introductory statistics and experimental design classes and provides statistical support to researches at the Georgetown center.

Susan is interested in the use of GIS and remote sensing as a tool to model ecosystems. Increasing human pressures on our limited natural resources require an increasing understanding of how to use those resources efficiently and effectively so as to sustain them into the future. Susan's educational background includes a B.S. in Wildlife Science from Oregon State University, an M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University and a doctorate degree from Iowa State University is in Soil Science and Water Resources with an emphasis in soil morphology and soil physics. Her doctorate research dealt with the quantification of relationships between landscape-position, various soil factors, and corn production.

Jason Challandes

Regional SARE Educator Delaware and Eastern Shore Maryland

Delaware State University
Dover, DE
302/388-2241
Email: jchallandes@desu.edu

Jason Challandes became the Regional SARE Educator for Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland in March 2009 as part of the Northeast SARE Professional Development Program (PDP). He is based at Delaware State University (DSU), but partners with the University of Delaware and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He worked in the small farms program as a student at DSU and graduated in Spring 2008 with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science . During his college career, Jason's interest and ability for creating multimedia outreach projects grew as he produced two short educational videos: one for the promotion of a field course in Belize entitled Tropical Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Conservation, and another describing the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve. His efforts at creating more entertaining versions of educational videos with very limited budgets have been presented to the international Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IEA). Jason now hopes to bring some of these ideas and experiences to the outreach efforts of SARE.

Jason's SARE activities focus on promoting sustainable agriculture techniques in the region. This goal is accomplished largely by educating agriculture service providers in the area so that they, in turn, will share this knowledge with the farmers that they assist. Three current areas of focus are reduced-tillage systems, season extension, and small-scale ornamental production. Jason also assists farmers directly, promotes SARE grant programs, and maintains research and demonstration plots.