Join Pennsylvania’s leading sustainability experts, elected officials, state-agency leader and policymakers for an exciting and informative series of conversations and presentations during the first-ever Pennsylvania Sustainability Summit hosted by the PA GreenGov Council.
This conference is free, open to all, and virtual, so you can join from your home or office. Attendees will get an inside view of the policies, programs and funding initiatives designed to help advance energy efficiency, climate resiliency and create a more sustainable future for Pennsylvania.
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Abstract: Decarbonizing the electric power sector will require large investments lasting decades. At the same time, intensifying climate change will increasingly impact electric power systems. In this talk, Michael will survey his past, present, and future research examining how to adapt decarbonizing power systems to climate change. He will particularly focus on two recent papers that use optimization and simulation models to quantify U.S. power system costs and reliability under long-term weather variability.
2:30 – 3:30pm
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Event Series: Chemistry Department Area Seminar Series Fall 2022
“Harnessing Photo-induced Phase Transition of Organic Materials for Energy Storage and Catalyst Recycling”
Grace Han – Brandeis University
Host: Lauren Zarzar (865-1316)
Future sustainable transportation systems will be automated, connected, and electrified. This transition requires completely new paradigms for smart infrastructure built upon data, control, and optimization. In this talk, we highlight SlrpEV (Smart LeaRning Research Pilot for Electric Vehicles) – a novel cyber-physical & human system research platform. SlrpEV seeks to resolve critical obstacles for public & workplace EV charging stations via novel pricing and power scheduling that learns and adapts to user preferences to minimize costs, emissions, and increase accessibility.
Join Pennsylvania’s leading sustainability experts, elected officials, state-agency leader and policymakers for an exciting and informative series of conversations and presentations during the first-ever Pennsylvania Sustainability Summit hosted by the PA GreenGov Council.
This conference is free, open to all, and virtual, so you can join from your home or office. Attendees will get an inside view of the policies, programs and funding initiatives designed to help advance energy efficiency, climate resiliency and create a more sustainable future for Pennsylvania.
The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School is hosting the first talk in its 2022-23 Lecture and Exhibit Series by virtually welcoming Dan Adams and Marie Law Adams, principals of Landing Studio, at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 5.
The National Weather Service (NWS) vision of building a Weather Ready Nation is powerful and has engaged the entire weather-water-climate Enterprise. As we continue to transform the way we serve our partners and the public, including those most vulnerable, the NWS has established priorities and action strategies for the near and long term. In addition to weather services and initiatives, we will discuss how the NWS will interface with NOAA’s new Climate Ready Nation initiative, which was developed in the wake of increasing frequency of extreme weather events across the globe.
Soaring temperatures and increased frequency of heatwaves have changed the way many people use electricity, often leading to higher consumption during the summer months. This trend is likely to continue as climate change progresses and temperatures increase. In order to ensure our electricity grid is prepared for these changes, it is important to develop accurate predictive models that account for climate-induced shifts in demand. Here, I will present results from two studies that leverage state-of-the-art data analytics to investigate the impact of climate change on electricity demand.
The research units housed in the Penn State College of Architecture’s Stuckeman School – the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, the Hamer Center for Community Design, and the Ecology plus Design research initiative – are hosting a series of six lectures during the 2022-23 academic year to highlight the research work that’s being done within the school.
Titled "E+D: Designing the ecological spectrum," this lecture will be given by Charles Andrew (“Andy”) Cole, director of the E+D research initiative and professor of landscape architecture and ecology.
Community-led processes that includes stakeholders in defining problems and decision-making to address these problems are increasingly advocated and adopted by scholars/scientists, practitioners, and policymakers alike. However, the processes and outcomes of these stakeholder engagement approaches are not fully understood or identified.
Climate Dynamics Seminars (Meteo 575) are held on Wednesdays from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm in the Alfred K. Blackadar Library (529 Walker Building).
Join Pennsylvania’s leading sustainability experts, elected officials, state-agency leader and policymakers for an exciting and informative series of conversations and presentations during the first-ever Pennsylvania Sustainability Summit hosted by the PA GreenGov Council.
This conference is free, open to all, and virtual, so you can join from your home or office. Attendees will get an inside view of the policies, programs and funding initiatives designed to help advance energy efficiency, climate resiliency and create a more sustainable future for Pennsylvania.
Department of Geosciences Colloquium Series presents Megan Holycross, Cornell UniversityEclogites, “arclogites” and the oxidation state of the continental crust
Regenerative Medicine and Engineering (Huck/MRI seed topic)
Jian Yang | Biomedical Engineering
Join Pennsylvania’s leading sustainability experts, elected officials, state-agency leader and policymakers for an exciting and informative series of conversations and presentations during the first-ever Pennsylvania Sustainability Summit hosted by the PA GreenGov Council.
This conference is free, open to all, and virtual, so you can join from your home or office. Attendees will get an inside view of the policies, programs and funding initiatives designed to help advance energy efficiency, climate resiliency and create a more sustainable future for Pennsylvania.
Rob Altenburg to discuss solar policy and politics in Pa. While there is little doubt that a significant expansion of solar generation in Pennsylvania is technically and economically achievable, policies to drive this transition have struggled to gain traction. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Finding Pennsylvania’s Solar Future Project — a multi-year effort engaging more than 300 stakeholders — has identified key policy measures to drive this transition.
Join Pennsylvania’s leading sustainability experts, elected officials, state-agency leader and policymakers for an exciting and informative series of conversations and presentations during the first-ever Pennsylvania Sustainability Summit hosted by the PA GreenGov Council.
This conference is free, open to all, and virtual, so you can join from your home or office. Attendees will get an inside view of the policies, programs and funding initiatives designed to help advance energy efficiency, climate resiliency and create a more sustainable future for Pennsylvania.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) have become more important criteria than before for many corporate companies due to climate changes and other social responsibilities. The ESG criteria reflect how the company aspires to create a more sustainable, equitable, and ethical future [1]. The dramatic increase in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high demand for Cloud computing/streaming/gaming require more and more energy/carbon usage over time, but the Dennard Scaling cannot keep up with the power/energy savings.
This session will focus on incorporating maps into your Power BI reports. You will discover mapping options included by default with Power BI as well as those available from Marketplace. Information will be provided on using the Penn State ArcGIS Online organizational account, analysis features within ArcGIS Maps visual for Power BI, and the use of additional data layers from ArcGIS Online. You will learn about maps in general as well as some tricks that might be helpful for building your maps in Power BI.
Prof. Huang’s main responsibilities include research and extension. He is known for developing the social inhibition model (at UIUC) which explains how nurse to forager transition is regulated, the mitezapper which is a non-chemical control method for the infamous Varroa destructor, his cyberbee.net (started in 1997 but developed mainly at MSU) for extension, and award winning photographs. He was awarded the J.I. Hambleton Award for Outstanding Research by theEastern Apicultural Society of North American Inc. August 2008.