Surendra, left, and Shikha Singh stand outside the office of the Washington State University Lind Dryland Research Station. The Singhs came to the station in April 2023, Surendra as director and Shikha as an assistant research professor.
December 23, 2024
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Long journey: WSU scientists travel from India to Adams County
LIND — As the crow flies, the state of Rajasthan in Northwestern India is a long way from the state of Washington. But in some ways, they’re very similar. “A mountain range goes through the middle of the state (of Rajasthan),” said Dr. Surendra Singh, director of the Washington State University Lind Dryland Research Station. “The other side gets all the rain and we don't. And after 10 years, I ended up again on the drier side of the mountains.”