Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

The prospect of climate disruption haunts contemporary culture and political debate today in a way that no environmental threat has before, and it is commonplace to hear climate change identified as the single most important challenge facing humanity. Is this prioritization of climate destabilization as the defining threat of recorded human history justified? Here I investigate the image of time underlying this apocalyptic narrative to show that it depends upon, and attempts to manage, the explosion of our horizons of time represented by “deep” geological timescales.

Geochemistry Forum with Dr. Joshua Garber, Scholar-Postdoctoral Student, Geosciences Dept, Penn State, presenting "Laser-Ablation Depth Profiling of Eclogite-Facies Zircon Interpreting U-Pb Dates and Uranium Mobility in Deeply Subducted Rocks"

Fault Detection and Isolation for a Complex Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Facility

Several shrub species from our yards and ornamental gardens are escaping and spreading into forests. We will discuss how a unique trait - holding onto their leaves for a longer time than native species - makes them successful and can impact native plants and animals.

Alex McKiernan will give the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ 2019 Lattman Visiting Scholar of Science and Society Lecture. His talk, titled “Truth, Trust, Relationships, Progress: The Work of Unfracturing."

A behind-the-scenes look at the changing world of journalism. National journalists discuss how the media is changing and what it means for communicating science to the public and policymakers. They will share their personal perspectives on how to get your stories told and what makes a good science story, and “do’s and don’ts” of dealing with journalists. This lively session will encourage Q and A. The event is free and open to the public. The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/792474210

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Colloquium with Dr. Sarah Larson, Assistant Professor, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State, presenting "Air-Sea Interaction and Large-Scale Sea Surface Temperature Variability"

Part of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus Initiative Fall 2019 Speaker Series—Steve Davis, Associate Professor, Earth System Science at University of California-Irvine

While there are thousands of studies on the labor market effects of the minimum wage, very few of them focus on its effects on immigrants, especially unauthorized immigrants. To fill this gap, this paper models and tests the effects of the minimum wage on the employment and wage of low-wage low-educated immigrants, depending on their immigration status. Theoretically, we develop a three-sector segmented labor market model with two types of workers.

Climate Dynamics ESSC Brown Bag Seminar with Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Professor of Geosciences, Dept of Geosciences & the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), Penn State, presenting "Summary of the State of the Greenland Ice Sheet"

Penn State graduate students are invited to attend a science communications workshop on October 23. Learn how to make your research accessible to the media, policymakers, and the public.

Sophia Hines, Lamont Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, to present “Abrupt Climate Change: Insight into glacial ocean dynamics through simple physical models and deep-sea coral measurements"

The subject of mathematical ecology is one of the oldest and most exciting in mathematical biology, and has helped in the management of natural systems and infectious diseases. Though many problems remain in those areas, we face new challenges today in finding ways to cooperate in managing our Global Commons. From behavioral and evolutionary perspectives, our societies display conflict of purpose or fitness across levels, leading to game-theoretic problems in understanding how cooperation emerges in Nature, and how it might be realized in dealing with problems of the Global Commons.

We are excited to announce details of the “Afternoon of Theoretical Ecology” on Tuesday, October 22, 2019, in MSC and LSB.

Water scarcity is one of the major problems facing many countries. South Africa is a water-scarce country and the gap between supply and demand has been increasing. Urbanization has been on the rise, by 2017 almost two-thirds of South African's lived in urban areas. This influx has seen cities like the City of Cape Town struggle to cope with increasing water demand over the years. Prolonged and recurrent drought in recent years in Western Cape triggered a water crisis that culminated to the city declaring a date “day zero” on which it would turn off the taps.

Virginia Weis to present "Coral symbiosis cell biology in the age of climate crisis: Turning discovery into solutions for saving reefs"

Natural gas energy focused students and faculty are invited to partake in the SHALE INSIGHT™ 2019 University Research Showcase on October 22-24 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa. Located in the exhibit hall, the University Research Showcase will allow students and faculty to showcase their groundbreaking studies, projects and research while networking with the nation’s foremost leaders on shale development.

The workshop will provide origin, distribution, site preferences, dispersal methods, and control measures for each plant. The key principles for controlling different grasses, vines, shrubs, and trees will be examined as each requires slightly different measures.

Hari M. Osofsky, Dean of Penn State Law & the Penn State School of International Affairs, Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of International Affairs, Professor of Geography, will present “The Regulatory Role of Climate Change Litigation”

The United Nations Association of Centre County and Its Council of Organizations invite you to our UN Day Dinner Celebrate 74 years of United Nations hard work and commitment to world peace Learn what the United Nations is accomplishing on climate change Join with 120 UNA Chapters across the nation focused on climate change Welcome internationals from over 30 nations and see the beauty of their flags Keynote Speaker Dr. Tom Richard “The Power of Renewable Natural Gas to Combat Climate Change and Help Save the Planet”