During his talk, Mbugua will speak on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, social impact, cool roof technology, entrepreneurship, and business in Africa. Registration is required: http://bit.ly/gaelen2020
Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive
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Dr. Laifang Li will present North Atlantic cold blob forced by increased storms
The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center is hosting the 5th Residential Building Design & Construction Conference (RBDCC) on March 4-6, 2020 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania.
Geosciences Colloquium: Hydrology, weathering, and landscape evolution: Can understanding the past help us better predict drought resilience in the future? by Ciaran Harman, Assistant Professor of Landscape Hydrology, Johns Hopkins University.
A Coffee and Cookies speaker reception precedes the presentation at 3:45 PM in the EMS Museum.
Brian Vinci is the Director of the Freshwater Institute. He is responsible for management and administration of the facility’s day-to-day operations, as well as program delivery, communications, fundraising and development. Prior to joining the Freshwater Institute, Brian worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a Research Technician and at Cornell University as a Ph.D. fellow. He has worked at the Freshwater Institute since 1999, including as an Environmental Engineer and as Director of Environmental Engineering Services. He holds a Ph.D.
ICDS Seminar: “Precision Farming: How Intelligent Systems Are Shaping Future Agriculture” by Dana Choi, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, will discuss how to produce more and better quality of food sustainably using machine learning-enabled precision farming techniques.
The Spring 2020 EarthTalks series titled "Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions" features Ken Davis presenting “U.S. methane emissions: What do we know? What can be done?”
Architectural Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series: Christopher Payne
Join the Penn State College of Engineering's Architectural Engineering Department for their Distinguished Speaker Series as they welcome Christopher Payne. Throughout his career in energy efficiency and sustainability policy research, Payne has focused on understanding how decisions about energy use are made, how public policy shapes those decisions, and how energy policy can be made more efficient, effective, and persistent.
The Nittany Divers SCUBA Club is thrilled to announce that Dr. Sylvia Earle will give a presentation on the immediate need to protect our oceans.
This event is FREE and open to the public! Parking is available for $1 per hour at either the HUB Parking Deck on Shortlidge Road or the East Parking Deck on Bigler Road.
Geochemistry Forum: Discovering the impacts of sulfide oxidation on the CO2 weathering sink by Andrew Shaughnessy, doctoral student, Geosciences, Penn State
Department of Geography Coffee Hour: Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement crush the American Rust Belt with Jason Hackworth, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act: Are US Agencies Protecting Our Most Endangered Animals from Climate Change? by Jennie Miller Defenders of Wildlife
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Evolving effective collective behavior: lessons from social insects by Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona
We invite you to attend a special topics research seminar to learn about Merck's efforts to discover new drugs aimed at fighting deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, better known as "superbugs." The featured presenter is Scott S. Walker, PhD, Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories. Antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria are a serious and growing threat to human health. To combat this crisis, novel agents that circumvent established resistance mechanisms are urgently needed.
Dr. Raymond Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Carbon emissions are the major driver of climate change and the resulting changes in risk. Projecting future anthropogenic carbon emissions is complicated by the presence of deep uncertainties, including fossil fuel resource constraints and the rate of future decarbonization. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change addresses deep uncertainties through the use of discrete scenarios. However, risk assessments require probabilistic information.
Water Insights Seminar: Landscape Memory: The Legacy of Logging on Pennsylvania Streams and Implications for Adaptive Approaches by Benjamin Hayes, Director of the Watershed Sciences and Engineering Program, Bucknell University
Geosciences Colloquium: Petrologic Constraints on Rates of Orogenic Processes by Mark Caddick, Associate Professor of Metamorphic Processes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
The Spring 2020 EarthTalks series titled "Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions" features Richard Alley presenting “Collapsing ice sheets?”
Seminar: Reflections from an academic career focused on fostering cultures of sharing by Scott Isard, Ph.D., Professor, Penn State