Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Please join us for an open house that highlights IEE, MRI, and Huck research facilities. Enjoy wine, beer, and cheese while you network with colleagues. The open house will take place on: April 10, 2019 4–6 p.m. The Nittany Lion Inn Learn about the equipment and services available to researchers at Penn State. Meet the research staff from:

Meteorology & Atmospheric Science Mini-Symposium, Colloquium 112 Walker Building @ 3:30 PM Suuki Manabe, GFDL Senior Meteorologist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University “Exploring Global Warming by Climate Models”

Professor Don A. Dillman (Washington State University) will deliver the lecture "How Web-Push Surveys have Revolutionized Data Collection Throughout the World," on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at 2:00 pm in Room 233AB of the HUB. In this presentation, Professor Dillman will discuss the reasons for the widespread adoption of web-push surveys in order to collect high-quality data. He will also describe the research he has done during the past decade to make these methods effective and outline new challenges being faced in keeping web-push data collection effective.

Energy & Environmental Economics & Policy (EEEP) Seminar 157 Hosler Building @ 12:00 PM Dr. Carolyn Kousky, Executive Director, Wharton Risk Management & Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania “The Future of Flood Insurance”

ESSC Brown Bag: Climate Dynamics Seminar 529 Walker Building @ 11:15 AM Dr. James Rupport, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State “Diurnal Forcing and Phase locking of Equatorial Gravity Waves in the Maritime Continent”

Geosciences Colloquium Series Pre-talk Coffee & Cookies Reception @ the EMS Museum, Ground Floor, Deike @ 3:45 PM; Lecture 4:00 PM @ 22 Deike Building Kerry Key, Associate Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University “Electromagnetic Imagining of Plate Tectonics and Crustal Margins”

Stakeholder engagement has been touted as an effective means to address difficult natural resource challenges. Engagement has the promise of creating more effective long-term solutions by bringing local and scientific knowledge and allowing resource managers to collectively define and champion solutions. How-ever, these outcomes are far from certain, are resource and time intensive, and require expertise not always available to organizations tasked with addressing resource issues.

Energy Engineering Faculty Candidate Lecture 157 Hosler Building @ 10:00 AM Yi-Pei Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ENENG Faculty Candidate “Engineering Chemical Reactions with Quantum Mechanics and Machine Learning”

Geochemistry Forum presents Robert M. Holder, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University “Metamorphism and the Evolution of Plate Tectonics”

The Penn State Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) and the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs (JLIA) are proud to present their Spring 2019 Symposium: Security and the Autonomous Future. Join Penn State Faculty and other invited national experts to explore how autonomous systems will affect our personal, national, and global security.

Gina McCarthy, the 13th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will offer the Future of Science and the World Lecture at 6 p.m. on April 3 in the Freeman Auditorium. She is an American environmental health and air quality expert that continues to discuss the importance of science communication and advocacy. The lecture is hosted by the Penn State Science Policy Society.

Larry Gorenflo, professor of landscape architecture and geography (courtesy appointment) and the Stuckeman Chair in Design, is presenting a lecture titled “Linguistic and Biological Diversity in High Visibility Landscapes: Opportunities for Conserving Nature and Culture“ at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium. The lecture is part of the School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series.

George Archibald, researcher and author

Meteorology & Atmospheric Science Colloquium presents Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Associate Director of Research, Research Professor, University of New Hampshire “Monitoring Ocean Dynamics Through Sound”

Energy & Environmental Economics & Policy (EEEP) Seminar presents Dr. Klaus Keller, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Penn State “From Earth System Science to Coastal Flood Risk Management (and Back)”

Geosciences Colloquium Series Speaker presents Dr. Christopher Reinhard, Assistant Professor, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology “Earth System Evolution as a Natural Lab for Planetary Science”

Ray Najjar, Professor of Oceanography, Departments of Meteorology and Geosciences, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State University   

With advances in computational science, researchers are finding new solutions to major societal problems. This one-day conference, hosted by the Institute for CyberScience at Penn State, will focus on innovative computational research across a diverse set of disciplines. Come hear nationally renowned speakers and be part of the discussion. Faculty, graduate students, industry, and representatives of funding agencies are welcome to attend. The symposium aims to connect researchers to potential industry partners, funding agencies, and collaborators.

Using fossil records to gain perspective on how species respond to environmental change​

Innovation is a process that encompasses and eclipses engineering practice to more comprehensively include skillsets from anthropology, economics, and business. It is challenging, however, within our academic career paths to identify opportunities to apply that process in earnest. This talk will demonstrate opportunities for innovation with global impact by first applying engineeringethnography for rapid user needs assessment and problem curation, and then move into four synergistic project areas that connect user insights to technical research and delivered product.