Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Sustainability in the supply chain provides a win-win for every organization—it’s good for the environment and for profitability. This program will equip you with the latest tools, concepts, and business practices for managing an environmentally and economically sustainable supply chain.

Part of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus Initiative Fall 2019 Speaker Series—Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division

America’s Largest Seed Fund is Coming to University Park, PA. If you’re an innovator, entrepreneur, researcher, or small technology firm, don’t miss this opportunity. Gain an in-depth understanding of agency technology funding priorities, meet one-on-one with high-level decision-makers and connect with local support resources.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Emily Bellis, PSU Biology will present “Evolution of intimate species interactions across complex environments" Ecology

Part of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus Initiative Fall 2019 Speaker Series

Direct and microbiome-mediated effects of plant defenses against insect herbivores

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."

Quantifying Losses Due to Field Crop Diseases at Different Sales and their Impact on Management Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Dr. Cory Baggett, Atmospheric Scientist, Innovim, LLC– NOAA Climate Prediction Center

Wei Peng, Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State

Plant Biology | Antje Heese, University of Missouri-Columbia

Jennifer Baka, Assistant professor of Geography, Penn State

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

Bill Kuo, Director of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Community Programs Refreshments will be served after the colloquium in the Joel Myers Weather Center

Dr. Robert Ceres, Meterology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State