Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

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 12:00 – 1:00pm  Online  Full details
Current communication channels for presenting scientific research have expanded and understanding how to effectively address each outlet can be challenging. Traditional academic research conferences and grant applications require comprehensive and hypothesis driven presentation of data. While expanded opportunities to procure funding from foundations and business partnerships require a different set of delivery expectations.
 10:35 – 11:35am  Full details
The Department of Chemical Engineering is hosting Professor Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, to present his virtual webinar titled “Multi-Scale Systems Analytics for Energy and Environmental Sustainability” on Thursday, April 21 at 10:35am. 
 9:00 – 10:00am  112 Buckhout Building or Online  Full details
Margaret Zimmer received her BS in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College, her MS in Earth Sciences from Syracuse University, and her PhD from Earth and Ocean Sciences from Duke University. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she started in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in January 2018. Her research primarily focuses on investigating how Earth's surface and near-surface dictates water and solute transport and storage.

 5:00 – 6:30pm  Online  Full details
This event is part of the Penn State EnvironMentors Spring 2022 Webinar Series aimed at introducing high school students to the EnvironMentors program. Topic: College Readiness and Admissions Topic: Construction of data visualization products, representative of previous week air quality data + Finalize Poster Creation  
 4:00 – 5:00pm  Online  Full details
Abstract: Hurricanes cause much damage and loss of life worldwide. The impacts of these storms may worsen in the coming decades because of rapid coastal development coupled with sea-level rise and possibly increasing hurricane activity due to climate change. Here we present a holistic framework of modeling hurricane hazards and risk in a changing climate. First, we introduce a new probabilistic hurricane model that can be used to generate large numbers of synthetic storms with physically correlated characteristics under projected climate conditions.
 3:30 – 4:30pm  112 Walker Building or Online  Full details
The coupling between the troposphere and stratosphere is an important component of the global general circulation of the atmosphere. It also plays an important role in understanding the global budget of chemical constituents and their feedback on the climate system.
 1:30 – 6:00pm  Shaver's Creek  Full details
You're invited to the Stone Valley Forest Expo: An exhibition of research focused on Pennsylvania ecosystems, natural areas, their management, and people at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center on April 20th. The event is designed to foster collaboration and bolster use of the Stone Valley Forest for research, teaching, outreach, and education. Six 10-minute talks will highlight management, data availability, and research, while the lion share of the event will focus on poster presentations and networking. Snacks are provided.
 1:00 – 2:00pm  Online  Full details
Dean Rick Roush will be joined by Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Tom Richard and Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Management Melissa Kreye. Every year forests and agricultural crops remove tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Hundreds of millions of dollars are now on the table to incentivize producers to store more of that carbon.
 12:00 – 1:00pm  Online  Full details
How community planners and other local leaders can utilize the agencies of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resource & Conservation Service (NRCS) & United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA RD), for community plan creation and implementation is the focus of this session. We will discuss how these agencies can assist community development in agricultural and non-agricultural areas.
 12:00 – 1:15pm  Online  Full details
The Paris Agreement allows countries to voluntarily mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using whatever means—i.e., policy instrument/regime, and ends—i.e., social cost of carbon, they desire. Surprisingly, the strategic interconnections between these choices has not been systematically examined even though this is likely to affect the ability for nations to collectively achieve efficient mitigation.
 12:00 – 1:00pm  Online  Full details
Dairy farm performance was simulated with and without combinations of double cropping and manure injection practices with a whole farm computer model (IFSM). Central Pennsylvania's dairy farm performance was simulated for 25 years of historical and future climate projections of 10 global climate change models.
 10:00 – 11:00am  Online  Full details
Use this opportunity to connect with collaborators at Penn State and Freiburg and brainstorm grant ideas. Each team must have a plan to leverage collaborative opportunities from livMatS at the University of Freiburg, for example through research exchanges, PI collaborations, or use of resources.

 4:00 – 5:00pm  22 Deike Building or Online  Full details
James Kasting, Penn State University, presents "Reflections on a Career in Geosciences/Astrobiology and the Exciting Future that Lies Ahead in this Field"
 10:00 – 11:00am  3rd Floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex  Full details
The Center for Regenerative Engineering and Translational Ecosystem (CREATE) Daniel Hayes | Biomedical Engineering
 7:30 – 8:45am  Online  Full details
This is the 5th session of the 2nd Round of Webinar on Water-Food-Energy. It focuses on NEXUS SOLUTIONS. This session will present and discuss some of FAO’s tools and work regarding the implementation of the WEF Nexus approach. The presentation and discussion will be based on concrete examples of where FAO’s WEF Nexus approach and tools have been applied to the assessment of sustainable bioenergy potential, solar irrigation, and investments in renewable energy for food chains.

 4:00 – 5:00pm  Online  Full details
Bruce Logan will discuss "Policy, people, and infrastructure momentum" as part of the EarthTalks seminar series.
 3:35 – 4:30pm  112 Buckhout Laboratory  Full details
Yams (Dioscorea spp.) are considered a staple food in tropical and subtropical regions. They provide a rich source of vitamin C, potassium, manganese, and fiber and are low in cholesterol. In Puerto Rico, yam is the most economically important tuber crop, and the most cultivated yams species include Dioscorea alata and Dioscorea rotundata. After Hurricane María, the potential of this crop in Island food security became evident as it was one of the crops that survived this natural disaster by being planted underground.
 1:30 – 2:30pm  158 Willard Building or Online  Full details
The noise and emissions that result from aviation activity affect human health and welfare as well as the climate. These impacts are constraining the growth of airports today and could present a constraint on the overall growth of the aviation industry in the future. Because the same vehicle is responsible for both noise and emissions, it is important to have a holistic view of aviation environmental impacts and to think broadly about how these impacts could be reduced through technology, operations, alternative fuels, and policy.
 12:10 – 1:10pm  Online  Full details
Michael Raissig, University of Heidelberg
 9:30 – 10:30am  Online  Full details
Building performance simulation in the context of energy efficient buildings and districts is still mostly used for code compliance checking. However, when used appropriately building performance simulation has the potential to help reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, to improve the indoor environmental quality and productivity, as well as facilitating future innovation and technological progress in construction.