Water scarcity is a global challenge affecting more than 2 billion people for at least a few months each year. Economists advocate using the price mechanism to manage scarce water resources, based on the neoclassical economic theory assumption that consumers respond to marginal prices. However, consumers may not fully understand complex rate structures, such as two-part tariffs, which often aim to achieve multiple policy objectives. Patel investigates consumer responses to a shift from flat water rates to volumetric pricing in the City of Sacramento.
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Behavioral Responses to Two-Part Tariffs: Evidence from the Introduction of Volumetric Water Pricing
Per/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that have been used in various industrial and consumer products. They are persistent in the environment and can pose health risks. These contaminants of emerging concern have been widely detected across the globe. Join us for a webinar dedicated to this timely topic.
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.
Education professionals, entrepreneurs and AI-industry experts are invited to attend the inaugural East Coast Global Silicon Valley (GSV) x Penn State event. The Global Impact Forum (TGIF) will be held Sept. 22-25 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
“Accelerating AI for Good” will be the theme for the inaugural GSV x Penn State TGIF as attendees explore ways to foster positive impact through education and innovation while building local-to-global connections with industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and education professionals.
Education professionals, entrepreneurs and AI-industry experts are invited to attend the inaugural East Coast Global Silicon Valley (GSV) x Penn State event. The Global Impact Forum (TGIF) will be held Sept. 22-25 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
“Accelerating AI for Good” will be the theme for the inaugural GSV x Penn State TGIF as attendees explore ways to foster positive impact through education and innovation while building local-to-global connections with industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and education professionals.
Education professionals, entrepreneurs and AI-industry experts are invited to attend the inaugural East Coast Global Silicon Valley (GSV) x Penn State event. The Global Impact Forum (TGIF) will be held Sept. 22-25 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
“Accelerating AI for Good” will be the theme for the inaugural GSV x Penn State TGIF as attendees explore ways to foster positive impact through education and innovation while building local-to-global connections with industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and education professionals.
Education professionals, entrepreneurs and AI-industry experts are invited to attend the inaugural East Coast Global Silicon Valley (GSV) x Penn State event. The Global Impact Forum (TGIF) will be held Sept. 22-25 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
“Accelerating AI for Good” will be the theme for the inaugural GSV x Penn State TGIF as attendees explore ways to foster positive impact through education and innovation while building local-to-global connections with industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and education professionals.
The Inter-Institutional Program for Diversifying Research is not just an initiative—it is a shared commitment to building lasting, impactful partnerships between Penn State’s Interdisciplinary Research Institutes under the Office of the Senior Vice-President for Research and in collaboration with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
The energy system is capital- and infrastructure-intensive. An energy transition requires changing historic patterns; investments will be needed both for renewable electricity and legacy systems to smooth the transition. These two types of infrastructure face different economic incentives and regulatory constraints. Differences in market structures across energy sources are relevant, including linkages to financial markets for capital and risk management.
Department of Geosciences
Colloquium Series
Fall 2024
Matt BeckerDarcy Lecturer California State University, Long Beach
Host: Rachel Housego
Join Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on Sept. 19, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. ET, for a webinar on how EPA’s Safer Choice program helps people find and have access to cleaning and other products made with safer ingredients and works in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders to prevent pollution.
2024 Women Advancing River Research Seminar Series
All seminars will be presented online live at 11:00 a.m. ET on the third Thursday of each month. Seminar recordings will be posted later. Please register in advance for all talks.
Braided and Meandering: Making a Career in Water and Rivers Outside Academia
Kate Brauman, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (U.S.)
Robin Abell, The Nature Conservatory (U.S.)
Michele Thieme, World Wildlife Fund (U.S.)
Ingrid Timboe, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (U.S.)
The space and time scale over which a process operates, say the harvesting of light by a leaf on a tree or the evolution of a synoptic weather system, may seem like a relatively mundane property. For the Earth as a single system, these scales range 13 orders of magnitude in space (from nanometers to 10,000 km) and 25 orders in time (from nanoseconds to billions of years). Though the large range is impressive, the real interesting and challenging scientific problems come about from understand how processes at one scale interact with another.
Penn State CTSI's Community Health Equity & Engagement in Research (CHEER) team is offering an open forum to share barriers and facilitators of StudyFinder as a recruitment tool.
StudyFinder is a tool that allows Penn State researchers to share studies that are looking for research participants in a number of different general topic areas.
Join the Penn State Computed Tomography (CT) Users Group, hosted by the Center for Quantitative Imaging (CQI). This group is open to faculty, students, and researchers across all Penn State campuses who are interested in harnessing the power of computed tomography for their work. All experience levels are welcome, from novice to expert.
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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.
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.