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  • September 25, 2026
  • Sean Doherty

First Contact: NASA Acres at Northwestern

ALVA, Okla. — In the late afternoon heat of Aug. 27, NASA scientists found themselves climbing into combines in a milo field south of Alva, Oklahoma. For some of them it was first contact. Despite spending countless hours developing new technologies for these pieces of machinery, nine had never ridden a working piece of farm equipment in their lives.

They came at the behest of Dr. Kent Martin, assistant professor of agriculture at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, as part of the NASA Acres Space for Ag Tour.

“The opportunity for our agriculture department to host members of the NASA Space for Ag Tour on campus was truly an honor, and was solely due to Dr. Martin’s professional accomplishments and outstanding rapport at the national level,” said Dr. Dean Scarbrough, chair of the agriculture department and professor of agriculture.

Dr. Dean Scarbrough, chair of the agriculture department at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, in a red Northwestern Rangers polo with a name badge, laughs while holding a milo head in his open palm alongside Faith Riensche in a dark green NASA Acres T-shirt, standing in a harvested milo field.
Dr. Dean Scarbrough, chair of the agriculture department at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and Faith Riensche, a Purdue University graduate research assistant and NASA Acres Farm Innovation Ambassador Team liaison, examine a milo head at the Martin farm south of Alva on Aug. 27.

Thanks to Martin’s leadership, Northwestern students and Woods County agricultural producers had the opportunity to engage directly with experts shaping the future of modern agriculture.

The tour brought Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, and Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, executive director of NASA Acres and a research professor at the University of Maryland, to northwest Oklahoma to present information about their research, development and use of satellite Earth observation data to students and to talk with area farmers and ranchers.

Event Details

  • Event: NASA Acres Space for Ag Tour, Alva stop
  • Date: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026
  • Campus location: Student Center Ballroom, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, Oklahoma
  • Public location: Bush Seed Company, Skyline Drive, Alva, Oklahoma
  • Field demonstration: Martin farm, south of Alva, Oklahoma
  • Closing: pizza dinner at Alva Beer Co., Alva, Oklahoma
  • Tour attendance: 17 members from NASA, NASA Acres and partner organizations
  • Campus attendance: about 200 people
  • Sponsors: Western Equipment and Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma
  • Northwestern organizer: Dr. Kent Martin, assistant professor of agriculture

Presentations on the Northwestern Campus

A full Student Center Ballroom at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, with rows of seated students, faculty and community members filling the room during the NASA Acres Space for Ag Tour presentations.
About 200 people fill the Student Center Ballroom at Northwestern Oklahoma State University on Aug. 27 as NASA and NASA Acres researchers present on satellite Earth observation data in agriculture.

Northwestern President Dr. Bo Hannaford welcomed the group in the Student Center Ballroom.

St. Germain and Whitcraft each spoke to about 200 people attending the event. Jim Bridenstine, chief executive officer of Quantum Space and former NASA administrator, also gave remarks.

Students from agriculture and natural science courses attended alongside Future Farmers of America (FFA) officers from area chapters and various faculty members.

Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division, speaks from a podium marked Northwestern Oklahoma State University, wearing a tan jacket and a patterned bandana.
Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division, addresses students and community members at Northwestern Oklahoma State University on Aug. 27.

St. Germain described the purpose of the visit in plain terms, saying NASA wanted to talk with members of the community, farmers and ranchers, but also students and university faculty, about ways the agency might partner with the university, its students and the local community to put NASA satellite data to work for farmers and ranchers in Oklahoma.

State and Federal Officials Who Attended

Twelve people stand together in the Student Center Ballroom at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in front of a red and black wreath bearing the Northwestern Ranger logo. The group includes NASA and NASA Acres leaders alongside Oklahoma state legislators, congressional staff and federal agency officials who attended the campus presentations.
From left, Dr. Kent Martin, assistant professor of agriculture at Northwestern Oklahoma State University; Madison Bolay of Perry; Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, executive director of NASA Acres; Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Dobrinski; Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division; Oklahoma state Sen. Roland Pederson; Jim Bridenstine, chief executive officer of Quantum Space and former NASA administrator; Nathan Dethloff, field representative for U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas; Peyton Burns of U.S. Sen. James Lankford's office; Eddie Fields, state executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in Oklahoma; Craig Smith, director of space industry development for the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics; and Steven Hjelm, executive operations manager at Quantum Space, at Northwestern on Aug. 27.

The lecture also drew state and federal officials, several with roots in the area:

  • Oklahoma state Sen. Roland Pederson, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Northwestern and farms near Burlington
  • Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Dobrinski
  • Jeff Hickman, president and chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association and a former speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Born in Alva, he is the fifth generation of his family to farm in Alfalfa and Woods counties
  • Eddie Fields, state executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in Oklahoma
  • Craig Smith, director of space industry development for the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics
  • Madison Bolay of Perry, a fifth-generation Noble County farmer who had won the Republican nomination for Oklahoma House District 38 two days earlier
  • Representatives for U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas and U.S. Sen. James Lankford

What NASA Acres Is

Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, executive director of NASA Acres, gestures mid-sentence at a podium marked Northwestern Oklahoma State University, wearing a light blue shirt and dark-framed glasses.
Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, executive director of NASA Acres, speaks at Northwestern Oklahoma State University on Aug. 27.

NASA Acres launched in 2023 as the agency’s U.S. agriculture consortium. The University of Maryland leads and implements the program in partnership with NASA’s Agriculture Program Area.

The program’s current scale:

  • More than 40 active projects
  • 11 primary organizations carrying out the work
  • More than 70 collaborating partners, including Northwestern Oklahoma State University
  • Reach across all 48 contiguous states and Hawaii
A projected NASA Acres slide titled "How We Partner," showing logos grouped under Sustaining, Supporting, Research Development and Extension, and Collaborating. The Northwestern Oklahoma State University logo appears among the collaborating partners.
A slide shows the organizations partnering with NASA Acres. Northwestern Oklahoma State University is among the collaborating partners.

Whitcraft described NASA Acres as the program that brings the value of satellite data down to Earth for American agriculture.

“NASA has been working in agriculture for almost 55 years now and has built all kinds of interesting ways of understanding crop yield,” Whitcraft said. “But only very recently have we had the amount of data, the models, the computational systems available to us to really connect that data and those kind of informatics to the farm. We’re in a whole new era.”

That connection is why the program spends its time on farms rather than in conference rooms. Whitcraft called farmers and ranchers the most important people in American agriculture.

How Satellites Reach the Field

Bridenstine, who served as NASA’s 13th administrator from 2018 to 2021, said the agency’s Earth science work affects agriculture in ways few people realize.

“It’s really important for NASA to come to places like Northwestern Oklahoma State University to demonstrate a lot of the Earth science capabilities that are having an impact on agriculture,” he said.

Three examples of how that works:

  • Finding water. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, a NASA mission known as GRACE, measured minute changes in Earth’s gravity from orbit. Those changes track the movement of water — in surface water, in soil, in aquifers and in the oceans. Knowing where the water is, Bridenstine said, makes it possible to predict where it will be, and that in turn makes it possible to anticipate drought and protect crop yields. He said the approach has been applied both in the United States and for countries around the world.
  • Measuring plant stress. When a plant lacks water, its stomata — microscopic pores on the surface of leaves and stems that manage gas exchange and water balance — close, and its temperature rises. The change is invisible to the eye at ground level but readable from space in infrared. Growers can be warned before the effect reaches the yield.
  • Tracking evapotranspiration. This is the combined water loss from soil evaporation and plant transpiration. Matched against soil type and crop, those measurements feed models that tell a producer what the coming weeks will demand.

Public Session at Bush Seed Company

Six men and women stand on the platform and steps of a green John Deere sprayer under a clear blue sky. From left: Jeff Hickman of the Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association, Dr. Steve Maier of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Dr. Kent Martin of Northwestern, Bob Baker of 4 Generations Organic, Dr. Karen St. Germain of NASA and Jim Bridenstine of Quantum Space.
From left, Jeff Hickman, president and chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association; Dr. Steve Maier, Northwestern Oklahoma State University vice president for academic affairs; Dr. Kent Martin, assistant professor of agriculture at Northwestern; Bob Baker, owner of 4 Generations Organic; Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division; and Jim Bridenstine, chief executive officer of Quantum Space and former NASA administrator, at Bush Seed Company on Skyline Drive on Aug. 27.

The group moved from Northwestern to Bush Seed Company on Skyline Drive, where Brodie Bush hosted the public portion of the day. Western Equipment, a sponsor of the Alva stop, displayed machinery equipped with current precision agriculture technology. Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma provided water and refreshments.

St. Germain, Whitcraft and Dr. Ignacio Ciampitti gave opening comments before the group moved into open conversation with producers. Ciampitti is chief agronomist for NASA Acres and a professor of agronomy at Purdue University, where he co-directs the Institute for Digital and Advanced Agricultural Systems.

Bob Baker, owner of 4 Generations Organic, also spoke to the group about organic wheat production.

Martin said the exchange exceeded what organizers expected.

“I would say kudos to the northwest Oklahoma farmers because NASA went away with so many ideas,” Martin said. “They had trouble capturing all of those ideas. It was an ideal interaction.”

Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, executive director of NASA Acres, speaks beside seed-cleaning equipment inside the shop at Bush Seed Company, wearing a NASA Acres cap and a name badge reading Executive Director, NASA Acres.
Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, executive director of NASA Acres, speaks during the public session at Bush Seed Company on Skyline Drive on Aug. 27.

Martin said NASA representatives told producers they want to work on individual farms, building tools alongside the people who will use them, and to provide those tools at no cost.

St. Germain and Martin noted that NASA is taxpayer funded and that the annual per-person cost of supporting the agency is comparable to a fast food meal.

Building Tools With Farmers

Thirteen NASA and NASA Acres tour members stand together in the Student Center Ballroom at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in front of a red and black wreath bearing the Northwestern Ranger logo. Most wear NASA or NASA Acres branded shirts, polos and caps.
NASA and NASA Acres tour members at Northwestern Oklahoma State University on Aug. 27.

The program calls the approach co-creation.

“How do we know that what the satellite sees or what the tool sees that’s in the atmosphere — how do we know its relevance to what happens on the Earth?” Martin said. “The answer is we create that alongside farmers and alongside students that we have today that will be farmers tomorrow.”

That work runs through the NASA Acres Farm Innovation Ambassador Team, a nationwide network of early-adopter farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, extension professionals and researchers who turn NASA satellite data into practical tools. Martin serves on its steering committee and describes his role as a co-chair.

Two other members of that steering committee traveled with the tour: Lacy Cotter-Vardeman, who raises grass-fed cattle, cotton, wheat and sorghum, and Tillery Timmons-Sims, director of operations at the Sandhills Area Research Association.

The Northwestern Professor Who Brought NASA to Alva

Martin came to NASA through sorghum. He served as chairman and a member of the board of directors of the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, later joined the board of National Sorghum Producers, and currently serves on both the Oklahoma Sorghum Commission and the Oklahoma Sorghum Association.

His family has farmed the Alva area for six generations, and his children are the seventh. His ancestors settled northwest Oklahoma before the land run of 1889.

He grew up on a farm near Alva, left for graduate work, and returned in 2011 after his father died to take over the family operation, which he still runs. He also owns an agricultural consulting company focused on land reclamation and fertilizer product development.

Martin earned a bachelor’s degree in plant and soil sciences at Oklahoma State University after two years at Northwestern, stayed at OSU for a master’s degree in soil fertility and plant nutrition, and completed a doctorate in agronomy at Kansas State University.

He was later a research and extension professor in Kansas State’s agronomy department, where his research focused on remote sensing and nutrient management — the same science NASA brought to Alva.

“Dr. Martin knows experiences like this can transform how our students view their own potential, and expand their view of career possibilities,” Scarbrough said. “We are thankful and honored to have him as a faculty member at Northwestern.”

Nine Scientists in the Field

Twelve NASA and NASA Acres staff members pose on and around a green John Deere combine in a harvested field. Several wear NASA Acres caps and shirts.
NASA and NASA Acres tour members gather on a combine at the Martin farm south of Alva on Aug. 27.

The day ended at the Martin farm south of Alva. Three combines and a tractor with a grain cart waited in the field. Kate and Kayla Leeper, daughters of Jay Leeper, and James and Bentley Lott, a father and son, ran the equipment while tour members rode along.

They watched grain monitoring in real time. They saw sensors some of them had helped develop controlling header height and ground speed. They watched grain move into the bin.

Two red Case IH combines sit in standing milo at the Martin farm south of Alva, with a group of tour members gathered between them under a wide, clear Oklahoma sky.
Two combines wait in standing milo at the Martin farm south of Alva on Aug. 27.

Nine people who build tools for agriculture had their first experience on a moving piece of farm equipment that day, Martin said.

“The impact of that was tremendous,” he said. “It’s something that they won’t forget anytime soon.”

Among them was Whitcraft, who grew up in a California winemaking family.

“I’ve never been in a combine in my life,” she said.

Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division, sits smiling with her arms crossed inside the yellow wheel hub of a green John Deere combine, wearing a NASA Acres cap and a patterned bandana.
Dr. Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division, sits in the wheel of a combine at the Martin farm south of Alva on Aug. 27.

The tour closed with a pizza dinner at Alva Beer Co. sponsored by Western Equipment and Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma.

What It Means for Northwestern Students

A Northwestern student in a black cap bearing the blue NASA insignia listens during the campus presentations in the Student Center Ballroom.
A Northwestern student wears a NASA cap during presentations in the Student Center Ballroom on Aug. 27.

Both NASA and Northwestern framed the day around students. Bridenstine said agriculture is being reshaped by technology and that the shift will reach students regardless of their major.

“Not everybody has to be the scientist or the engineer that designs the capability, but everybody’s going to have to know how to use those tools when those capabilities are developed,” he said.

He said universities like Northwestern are getting young people engaged in the work now, which he tied to the country’s long-term agricultural competitiveness.

Martin said the crossover reaches well past agriculture. The tour drew communications staff, scientists reading spectral signatures, agricultural educators and drone developers. One attendee wanted to talk about building an app to track cattle using thermal imaging from a drone.

“It’s hard to find a discipline that would not find an opportunity to work within this,” Martin said.

Forrest Melton, senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, wearing a NASA-branded shirt and a lanyard badge reading NASA Listening Tour 2026, smiles while talking with a young man in a plaid shirt and cap at the edge of a harvested milo field.
Forrest Melton, a senior research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, talks with Bentley Lott, who ran a combine during the field demonstration, in a milo field at the Martin farm south of Alva on Aug. 27.

St. Germain said NASA’s Earth science program touches a wide range of student interests, from agriculture to human health to disaster response. Whitcraft said NASA Acres partners with FFA and 4-H and is increasingly teaching remote sensing courses at rural colleges, so students who already come from the farm can connect the two early.

She offered students a simpler instruction.

“Ask questions, ask all the questions, and don’t be shy about asking bad questions,” she said. “There is no bad question that’s asked in earnest. The only bad question is the one you don’t ask.”

Martin said the visit left an impression on both sides. NASA Acres and NASA Earth staff described their time in northwest Oklahoma as among the best they have had on any Space for Ag Tour.

Roughly 28 people — NASA and NASA Acres tour members, Northwestern faculty and students, area producers and their families, including two children — stand together in front of a green John Deere combine in a harvested milo field at the close of the day, backlit by late afternoon sun.
Tour members, Northwestern Oklahoma State University faculty and students, and area producers and their families gather at the Martin farm south of Alva on Aug. 27 at the close of the NASA Acres Space for Ag Tour.

More Information

For more information about the department, visit the Northwestern Department of Agriculture website, or contact Dr. Dean Scarbrough at 580-327-8487 or dascarbrough@nwosu.edu.

Northwestern’s natural science students also attended the campus presentations. Visit the Northwestern Department of Natural Science website, or contact Dr. Jenny Sattler, chair of the natural science department and professor of physics, at 580-327-8568 or jasattler@nwosu.edu.

To learn about the national program, visit the NASA Acres website. To learn about the producer network, visit the Farm Innovation Ambassador Team page.

Transcript

First Contact: NASA Acres at Northwestern​ Video Transcript

Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft: I come from a viticulture family in California, and I’ve never been in a combine in my life. I’m about to.

Dr. Karen St. Germain: My name is Karen St. Germain, and I am responsible for the part of NASA that looks down at our home planet, Earth.

I’m here in Alva, Oklahoma today talking with members of the community, farmers and ranchers, but also students and university faculty to talk about ways that NASA might partner with the university and students, but also the local community to put our satellite data to work for farmers and ranchers in Oklahoma.

Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft: I’m Alyssa Whitcraft. I am the executive director of NASA Acres, which is NASA’s consortium that focuses on bringing the value of satellite data down to Earth for American agriculture.

NASA’s been working in agriculture for almost 55 years now and has built all kinds of interesting ways of understanding crop yield. What crops are being grown there, what sort of sources of stress they are. But only very recently we had the amount of data, the models, the computational systems available to us to really connect that data and those kind of informatics to the farm.

We’re in a whole new era. And so what we’re doing as a program is trying to get as much connection of our data and science into impact as we possibly can. And that means that we spend a lot of time down here with the most important folks in American agriculture, which are farmers and ranchers.

Jim Bridenstine: My name is Jim Bridenstine. I’m the CEO of Quantum Space, and previously I was the NASA administrator.

When I was at the head of NASA, we saw NASA develop a lot of new technologies and capabilities that oftentimes end up as a one-off opportunity to do science, discovery, exploration, those types of things. But in this particular case, we’re trying to apply it to real applications that improve lives here on Earth.

It’s really important for NASA to come to places like Northwestern Oklahoma State University to demonstrate a lot of the Earth science capabilities that are having an impact on agriculture.

Dr. Kent Martin: Hi, I’m Kent Martin, professor of agronomy at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and I’ve been a professor here for about a year.

So my family has been a part of the Alva community for six generations now. My kids are the seventh generation in this area.

I’ve been back in the community since 2011. And really, one of the things that I always wanted to do, kind of a goal of mine, was to get back to Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

We are attracting students who are actually going to be in the field doing the work that we talk about in class.

And for NASA Acres and the FIAT group, one of the key things that we have to have is ground truthing and training these models.

So one of the big questions that we get asked is, how do we know that what the satellite sees or what the tool sees that’s in the atmosphere, how do we know its relevance to what happens on the earth? And the answer to that is we create that alongside farmers and alongside students that we have today, that will be farmers tomorrow.

One of the things that they said at that meeting, that that was really foundational, was we want to be on your farms, interacting with you individually, creating a tool that benefits you, and to do it for free.

After the part of the tour at Bush Seed Company, we went out to the field and we took nine NASA Earth and NASA Acres directors and scientists, and we had three combines and one tractor with a grain cart, and we took them out in the field.

We gave them the opportunity to see their satellites in action in agriculture. We let them see grain monitoring in real time, going through a combine. We let them see sensors that some of them had helped develop, controlling header height and reel speed and combine speed. Threshing, watched grain going into a bin and plant material coming out of a combine.

And these people had never experienced that in the past at all. We gave some others rides too that had experienced it that just wanted to do it again.

But nine people developing tools for agriculture that had their first experience on a moving piece of agricultural equipment happened that day. And the impact of that was tremendous. And it’s something that they won’t forget anytime soon.

Jim Bridenstine: So farming is going to be massively transformed by technology. And it’s very important that young people today start learning those techniques.

Not everybody has to be the scientist or the engineer that designs the capability, but everybody’s going to have to know how to use those tools when those capabilities are developed.

Places like Northwestern Oklahoma State University are getting young folks engaged in these activities.

Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft: If I’m going to say anything to students, it’s like, ask questions, ask questions, ask all the questions, and don’t be shy about asking bad questions. There is no bad question that’s asked in earnest. The only bad question is the one you don’t ask.

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