NEWSScientists use eclipse for soil, land experimentOregon State University undergraduate Jack Blackham (left), recent OSU PhD graduate Steve Drake and UC Davis professor Holly Oldroyd work to install one of 16 instrument positions that will gather data during Monday's solar eclipse from a field south of Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017CONNOR RADNOVICH / Statesman JournalChad Higgins, associate professor at Oregon State University, describes the instruments attached to a tower that will gather a variety of data during Monday's solar eclipse from a field south of Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017CONNOR RADNOVICH / Statesman JournalA team of scientists and college students work to install one of 16 instrument positions that will gather data during Monday's solar eclipse from a field south of Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017CONNOR RADNOVICH / Statesman JournalThe insides of one of 16 instrument positions that will gather data during Monday's solar eclipse from a field south of Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017CONNOR RADNOVICH / Statesman JournalA team of scientists and college students work to install one of 16 instrument positions that will gather data during Monday's solar eclipse from a field south of Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017CONNOR RADNOVICH / Statesman Journal