Merle H. Jensen. Professor, Department of Plant Sciences; Assistant Dean for Sponsored Research; Associate Director, Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station. Ph.D., Rutgers University.

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Intensive agriculture/food support systems for developing agricultural communities and aerospace application.

Research interests include programs in protected agriculture, the growing of horticultural crops out of season using agricultural plastics for modification of the microclimate. Coinciding with these research interests is the application of new systems of protected agriculture to developing agricultural programs throughout the world. These research interests extend to a recent program with NASA in comparing plant growth and reproduction in hydroponic liquid culture versus solid media food production techniques for a "Closed Ecological Life Support System" (CELSS).

Jensen, M.H. 1997. Hydroponics. HortScience, vol. 32(6).

Jensen, M.H. and Alan J. Malter 1995. Protected Agriculture - a global review. World Bank Technical paper no. 253, p. 157.

Jensen, M.H. 1990. Protected cultivation -- a global review of plastics in agriculture. Proc. XI Intl. Congress on the Use of Plastics in Agric. New Delhi, India, pp. E3-E10.

Jensen, M.H. 1990. Hydroponic culture for the tropics. Opportunities and alternatives. Proc. Intl. Seminar on Hydroponic Culture of High Value Crops in the Tropics. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, p. 24.

Jensen, M.H. 1990. The world of hydroponics: A technical overview. Proc. Intl. Sem. on Hydroponic Culture of High Value Crops in the Tropics. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, p. 6.

Jensen, M.H. 1988. Controlled environmental agriculture: Today and Tomorrow. Proc. Hort. in High Technology Era, Soc. of Ag. Meteorology of Japan; Tokyo, Japan, pp. 143-156.