Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

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 12:00pm  Full details
Municipalities wishing to meet MS4 requirements have many options: hire a consultant, do an education program for the public, test water coming from outfalls… but one of the most effective steps to take is to use existing resources, existing personnel, existing projects and property, to improve the quality of stormwater in local streams and bodies of water.
 10:10am  160 Willard Building  Full details
Three revolutions are underway in urban transportation around the world: vehicle electrification, automation, and shared (on-demand) mobility. How each of these unfolds, and how they interact, will have major implications for transportation patterns, energy use, and CO2 emissions over the coming decades. Recent trends and potential future directions suggest a wide range of possible impacts and a strong need to pursue policies that move these revolutions in societally optimal directions. This presentation covers a range of issues, trends and recent research in this area.
 12:00am  The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center  Full details
Project Drawdown is partnering with Penn State to hold the first international conference on Drawdown — Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown. Join the world’s foremost scientific experts in a critical discussion about the most innovative and promising climate change solutions and upcoming research.

 10:30am  233A HUB-Robeson Center  Full details
Sleep is one of three “pillars of health” along with diet and exercise.  Adequate restorative sleep is important for mood, positive social interactions, productivity, safety, and healing, whereas insufficient or poor-quality sleep in the long term increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. But who has time to sleep?

 3:30pm  319 Walker Building  Full details
The generalized claims about the inadequacies of the governmental response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, at both the local and federal levels, highlight a simple but often overlooked fact: disasters do not occur in a vacuum, neither societies that experience them are “blank canvases” or “clean slates” from which the reconstruction starts from scratch.  From macro-level abstractions such as the governance limbo brought by PROMESA, to th
 2:30pm  312 Ag Engineering  Full details
Emily Bellis, PSU Biology will present “Evolution of intimate species interactions across complex environments" Ecology
 1:30pm  Full details
Part of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus Initiative Fall 2019 Speaker Series
 11:00am  W203 Millennium Science Complex  Full details
Direct and microbiome-mediated effects of plant defenses against insect herbivores

 7:00pm  112 Kern Building  Full details
Annual start-of-the-semester lecture for first-year students in the Bellisario College. Jessica Myrick, an assistant professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies, will present "Feeling Our Facts and Some Facts About Feelings: How Emotions Help Shape Our Mediated Lives."
 11:00am  W-203 Millennium Science Complex  Full details
Quantifying Losses Due to Field Crop Diseases at Different Sales and their Impact on Management Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

 3:30pm  112 Walker Building  Full details
Dr. Cory Baggett, Atmospheric Scientist, Innovim, LLC– NOAA Climate Prediction Center
 12:00pm  157 Hosler Building  Full details
Wei Peng, Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State

 12:10pm  108 Wartik Lab  Full details
Plant Biology | Antje Heese, University of Missouri-Columbia

 3:30pm  319 and 112 Walker Building  Full details
Jennifer Baka, Assistant professor of Geography, Penn State

 11:00am  W-203 Millennium Science Complex  Full details
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics Sadie Ryan, University of Florida September 5, 2019 @ 11:00 am to 12:00 pm W-203 Millennium Science Complex University Park Contact Monica Arismendi mha15@psu.edu 814 863-6471

 3:30pm  112 Walker Building  Full details
Bill Kuo, Director of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Community Programs Refreshments will be served after the colloquium in the Joel Myers Weather Center
 11:15am  529 Walker Building  Full details
Dr. Robert Ceres, Meterology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State

 3:45pm  22 Deike Building  Full details
Indrani Das, Marine Geologist & Assistant Research Professor, Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory 022 Deike Building @ 04:00 PM A coffee and cookies speaker reception will precede the talk at 3:45 PM in the EME Museum on the ground floor of Deike Building
 10:00am  3rd floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex  Full details
A new strategic partnership between Penn State and the University of Freiburg is focused on developing a new class of engineered living materials with potential applications in sustainable infrastructure, robotics technologies, and next-generation medical care.
 12:00am  Westin Convention Center  Full details
The 2018 International Pittsburgh Coal Conference (PCC) is proudly hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering. It is an outgrowth of a series of conferences spanning more than three decades, and dealing with coal utilization both in the United States and internationally.