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Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar
A collection of upcoming energy and environment events from around Penn State and beyond.
The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will welcome Coco Alarcon, a Peruvian architect, landscape architect and public health researcher, to the Stuckeman Family Building at 6 p.m. on March 22 to present a lecture and open an exhibition as part of the school’s Lecture and Exhibit Series.
Join the Sustainability Institute at Penn State for its spring 2023 lineup of the Intersections film series, integrating stories of community resilience in the face of sustainability challenges around the theme of “Building Better Bonds.”
Featured Event
The 1.5-day conference and community networking event emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of water research and extension across Penn State campuses. Penn State water-related researchers—students, faculty, and staff—can share experiences, discuss field challenges, and discuss ideas.
Full agenda
Join Cuthbert Taguta from University of KwaZulu-Natal. Cuthbert will present his research on further developing an integrative analytical model for the WEF nexus into a free access, readily available, web-based and GIS-enabled model. He will discuss how this model can be applied in assessing the state of WEF nexus as well as exploring WEF nexus scenarios in southern Africa.
Hosted by the James C. Finley Center for Private Forests at Penn State and partners, the 2023 Forest Landowners Conference brings together people who want to know more about forests. Whether you own forested land, hope to one day, or serve as a woodland advocate, join others who share your interests and get the knowledge and tools you need to care well for your woods and elevate your stewardship.
Featured Event
The 1.5-day conference and community networking event emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of water research and extension across Penn State campuses. Penn State water-related researchers—students, faculty, and staff—can share experiences, discuss field challenges, and discuss ideas.
Full agenda
Dr. Kadie Britt is a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the University of California Riverside Department of Entomology, located at the Kearney Agricultural Research Extension Center in Parlier, CA working with Dr. Houston Wilson. Her postdoctoral research has focused on a variety of issues in multiple crop systems -- including almonds, pistachios, hemp, and cannabis -- with an overarching goal of improving the sustainability of agricultural pest management practices. Prior to arriving in California, Kadie earned her PhD working with Dr.
The SAFES Research team will be hosting a series of workshops this spring to explore some of the team-related challenges that can come up in the course of doing interdisciplinary research. We invite you to join us for these sessions to hear from some experienced principal investigators who will share a few of their experiences leading and working with large interdisciplinary research teams.
The Graduate Exhibition celebrates research and creative scholarship as an integral and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience. All Exhibition activities are free and open to the public.
The Graduate Exhibition features five distinct categories showcasing Penn State graduate students’ research and creative accomplishments:
Research Poster Presentations in five broad disciplinary categories:
Hosted by the James C. Finley Center for Private Forests at Penn State and partners, the 2023 Forest Landowners Conference brings together people who want to know more about forests. Whether you own forested land, hope to one day, or serve as a woodland advocate, join others who share your interests and get the knowledge and tools you need to care well for your woods and elevate your stewardship.
In 2009, in response to umpteen requests from farmers, NGOs, and research institutes in East Africa, a group of undergraduate students set out to build affordable greenhouses. Their clueless mentor, an electrical engineer who seldom ate his vegetables, set a specific goal: design a greenhouse that could be assembled by two people in two days for less than $200. It must have an ROI of less than one year and a lifespan of at least five years.
Join CSRE March 27 at 11:00 a.m. for an interactive discussion led by Robert Cardillo, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and current chairman of the board at Planet Federal, as he examines both benefits and risks in a world where sensors are omnipresent. Registration is required.
We now live in the golden age of solar system exploration. With a dozen NASA missions currently in development — as well as spacecraft actively on Mars, near Jupiter, and in the Kuiper belt — the current scale of mission activity is unprecedented and brings forth a new era of comparative study of varied worlds at the systems level.
Learn how corrosive water is tested and how it can affect your plumbing and drinking water.
Join Penn State Extension for Water Webinar Series: Corrosive Water! Homes with copper plumbing sometimes see blue-green stains in their sinks. This is a result of corrosive water dissolving enough of the copper to create aesthetic and health related problems in their drinking water.
About the Series
Albert Ruhi is a freshwater ecologist and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (Dept. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management).
The Bioeconomy Solutions CII will be hosting a series of discussions with industry partners to hear about their ongoing projects in the world of bioproducts and bioenergy. Over the next two months, we are planning three working sessions with three different industry CEOs to discuss the scientific and technical challenges at the frontier of their work and explore possibilities for collaboration.
Our second guest in the series is Lalit Chordia from Thar Technologies (https://tharprocess.com/).
We now live in the golden age of solar system exploration. With a dozen NASA missions currently in development — as well as spacecraft actively on Mars, near Jupiter, and in the Kuiper belt — the current scale of mission activity is unprecedented and brings forth a new era of comparative study of varied worlds at the systems level.
The Bioeconomy Solutions CII will be hosting a series of discussions with industry partners to hear about their ongoing projects in the world of bioproducts and bioenergy. Over the next two months, we are planning three working sessions with three different industry CEOs to discuss the scientific and technical challenges at the frontier of their work and explore possibilities for collaboration.
Our third and final guest in the series is Timothy Winters from Western New York Energy (https://www.wnyenergy.com/).
We now live in the golden age of solar system exploration. With a dozen NASA missions currently in development — as well as spacecraft actively on Mars, near Jupiter, and in the Kuiper belt — the current scale of mission activity is unprecedented and brings forth a new era of comparative study of varied worlds at the systems level.