As climate change accelerates, the Western U.S. is expected to experience more frequent and severe droughts. This looming crisis underscores the need to understand how households may adapt. In this study, Mingzhou applies a residential sorting model to examine how drought-induced water shortages influence household location choices in the region. His findings are multifaceted: First, households experience significant disutility from living outside their birth states, with preference varying by demographics.
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Join Penn State Sustainability for its ongoing Sustainability Showcase Speaker Series, which this year is focused on the theme of Mind Over Matter, exploring how to become more personally, societally, and biologically resilient by reconnecting with our core values and beliefs and by reconnecting with non-human nature.
10:00am – 12:00pm
504 Engineering Collaborative Research and Education (ECoRE) Building
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Channeling decades of experience from on-air reporting for the BBC and as directors of Boffin Media, award-winning British science journalists Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham share invaluable lessons on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to communicating research via print, audio, and TV.
In this brief primer on the pioneering work of world-renowned systems scientist Riane Eisler, I hope to offer an ethics-based, constructive critique of contemporary society’s oft-exalted concept of disruptive innovation. To this end, I will introduce the Café community to Eisler’s extraordinarily holistic and integrative analytical tool – the Biocultural Partnership-Domination Lens, along with its related four pillars of partnership: childhood, gender, economics, and narratives.
Electrospinning is a process to prepare nonwoven fabrics of fine fibers. Control over fiber-scale and fabric-scale structure enables rapid exploration of new polymeric and hybrid materials. I’ll briefly describe “e-spinning” capabilities in our lab, followed by application examples spanning energy, medicine, and consumer products.
The Millennium Café runs 10-11am in the 3rd floor Café Commons of the MSC Bldg. Join researchers from across campus for a stellar cup of coffee and two <10 min interdisciplinary talks.
Land management and evolutionary ecology may seem like disparate fields, but in fact, they can be highly complementary. Quantifying natural selection in the field can be an opportunity to improve the efficiency and success of restoration projects, and management-scale operations present opportunities for measuring the consistency and strength of natural selection at scales that would be difficult for individual researchers to achieve.
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) refers to the use of technologies and processes designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources and power plants. The main goal of CCUS is to mitigate the impact of carbon dioxide on the atmosphere. Recent financial incentives by governments and states have led to a substantial growth in CCUS projects and formation of a new industry. Join us to learn more about this evolving area of growth in the geosciences!
Atmospheric electricity processes at low altitudes in the Earth's atmosphere produce lightning flashes that lead to plasma phenomena with measurable effects through the depth of the atmosphere and beyond. Many of these effects have been discovered during the past three decades and are still poorly understood. Lightning can create strong electromagnetic pulses and quasi-static electric fields inducing gas discharges in the upper atmosphere.
Coffee Hour is a weekly lecture hosted by the Department of Geography celebrating interdisciplinary scholarship and collegiality. Topics range from innovations in GIScience, to food security, to land use and justice issues, among others. All members of the Geography, Penn State, and surrounding community are invited to attend.
Speaker: Jessica Omukuti, Research Fellow at University of Oxford
Recently, there has been a growing demand for graduate students of all disciplines to communicate well with diverse audiences about what they do and why they do it. In two consecutive sessions devoted to the composition and delivery of a short research or scholarship presentation, we will explore how structured and dynamic communication can set a speaker on a path for success. In the first session, participants will have an opportunity to draft content that summarizes their project in effective ways that will reach a non-specialized audience.
Professor Bruce Logan is the Director of the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) and an Evan Pugh University Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Penn State. His research is focused on renewable energy production, energy sustainability of the water infrastructure, hydrogen gas production using water electrolysis, and climate and energy education. He is the author or co-author of several books and over 550 refereed publications (>119,000 citations, h-index=167).
The large-scale atmospheric flow plays a central role in shaping Earth's regional weather and climate. On daily to multi-decadal timescales, the tropical and extra-tropical flows transport heat, momentum, and moisture across latitudes and longitudes, thereby affecting the distribution of precipitation, temperature, and winds. It is thus critical to assess the impacts of anthropogenic emissions on the large-scale flow. Yet, while observed thermodynamic changes have been attributed to human emissions with high confidence, currently, there is a large uncertainty in recent circulation changes.
The Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series, launched in fall 2019, transforms the culture of sustainability education and pedagogy, embedding it into the college’s teaching culture.
UIDP Penn State 2024 will examine what it takes to drive multi-stakeholder R&D that addresses global challenges.
The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership's (UIDP) fall conference brings together thought leaders and on-the-ground practitioners with the savvy to drive new partnerships. You’ll meet partnership connections, explore new approaches to shared challenges, and tackle contemporary issues in cross-sector research partnership.
The global extinction of species has been the focus of interest of scientists and the public at large – a phenomenon of undeniable local and global importance. However, a less publicized component of the biodiversity crisis is the loss of populations – which is massive and represents the preamble to global extinction. Here I will discuss the patterns of population loss and the consequences thereof for the functioning of ecosystems and human wellbeing.
The layer by layer processing of AM has opened the door to novel designs and development of new materials that can help meet future engineering challenges. The Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) is a multidisciplinary, intercollegiate research lab dedicated to cutting-edge additive manufacturing technologies (AM) and houses advanced equipment to support AM research of metal, polymer, and ceramic materials. This presentation will provide an overview of CIMP-3D’s facilities and capabilities, its operational structure and collabor
Fungal-based materials, also known as fungal biomaterials or mycelium materials have been identified by many national initiatives and research programs as an area of high growth potential. Manufacturing of fungal biomaterials has the potential to revolutionize traditional manufacturing in the United States. Here, I will discuss how fungal evolutionary diversity impacts the properties and behavior of resulting materials spanning from food to biomedical scaffolds.
UIDP Penn State 2024 will examine what it takes to drive multi-stakeholder R&D that addresses global challenges.
The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership's (UIDP) fall conference brings together thought leaders and on-the-ground practitioners with the savvy to drive new partnerships. You’ll meet partnership connections, explore new approaches to shared challenges, and tackle contemporary issues in cross-sector research partnership.
A webinar series highlighting opportunities and challenges of transdisciplinary approaches within agricultural research. Presented by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the National Agricultural Library, the seminar series will examine strategies for implementing transdisciplinary approaches, team-building and overcoming challenges to encourage the adoption of and training in transdisciplinary systems.
UIDP Penn State 2024 will examine what it takes to drive multi-stakeholder R&D that addresses global challenges.
The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership's (UIDP) fall conference brings together thought leaders and on-the-ground practitioners with the savvy to drive new partnerships. You’ll meet partnership connections, explore new approaches to shared challenges, and tackle contemporary issues in cross-sector research partnership.