A common theme of my work for the last 20 plus years has been working spatially at granular scales — collecting and analyzing data in different ways that can help reveal patterns and processes that can be translated into action, primarily in the areas of health and natural hazards.
Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive
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Laura Kaminsky, Penn State
An exhibition displaying the architectural design work of 20 seniors in the architecture and sustainable design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be on display April 8-15 in The Gallery at Penn College.
A reception for “Architecture & Sustainable Design: Senior Capstone Projects” will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. (with remarks at 5 p.m.) on Friday, April 8, in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Spring 2022 Distinguished Speaker Series: Dan Sanchez
Daniel L. Sanchez studies engineered biomass & bioenergy systems that remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Trained as an engineer and energy systems analyst, Sanchez’s work and engagement spans the academic, nongovernmental, and governmental sectors. As an Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, he runs the Carbon Removal Lab, which aims to commercialize sustainable carbon dioxide removal technologies, and supports outreach to policymakers and technologists in California and across the United States.
Abstract: Declining snowfall in mountainous regions is a major consequence of climate change that impacts snowpack and ultimately streamflow timing and magnitude. In the western U.S., declining average snowfall is well established, but changes in snowfall intensity and snow intermittence are less well understood yet have significant consequences for terrestrial hydrology, snow-dependent ecosystems, and streamflow. For instance, changing snowfall intensity can alter the snow energy balance, altering mid-winter melt.
2022 Penn State Center for Biorenewables Symposium
Foundational shifts in our understanding of carbon, renewables, and the circular economy are creating dramatic opportunities in the fields of bioenergy and Biorenewables. Penn State's Center for Biorenewables works to catalyze this transformation through research innovation and education relating to biorenewable food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, materials, and energy.
An exhibition displaying the architectural design work of 20 seniors in the architecture and sustainable design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be on display April 8-15 in The Gallery at Penn College.
A reception for “Architecture & Sustainable Design: Senior Capstone Projects” will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. (with remarks at 5 p.m.) on Friday, April 8, in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
This event is part of the Penn State EnvironMentors Spring 2022 Webinar Series aimed at introducing high school students to the EnvironMentors program.
Topic: Integrated Energy Systems
Presentation Construct: (i) Summary of research project (~20 minutes); (ii) How the research project connects to the IEE theme (~10 mins); (iii) Why the members of the research team joined STEM (~10 mins); and (iv) close with a Q/A session (~10 mins).
Environmental + Public Health Data Science Project
Speaker: Dr. Stanley Grant (Virginia Tech)
Title: Reversing the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome: A Call to Action for the Water Resources Research Community
Location: In person (112 Chambers Building, PSU University Park campus) and via Zoom
Teleconnections are sources of predictability for regional weather and climate but the relative contributions of different teleconnections to regional anomalies are usually not understood and often highly contested. To close this important knowledge gap, progress is needed in analysing and quantifying teleconnection pathways.
2022 Penn State Center for Biorenewables Symposium
Foundational shifts in our understanding of carbon, renewables, and the circular economy are creating dramatic opportunities in the fields of bioenergy and Biorenewables. Penn State's Center for Biorenewables works to catalyze this transformation through research innovation and education relating to biorenewable food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, materials, and energy.
Webinar featuring Gerald I. Susman Sustainability Leadership Award Winner: Diane Phillips, PhD. '88 & '99
Energy & Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar
Please join us for Water Cooler Talk: Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances as we gather around the virtual water cooler as one collective water resource community. Widespread usage of products containing perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and their degradation-resistant properties cause them to accumulate in biosolids and persist in treated wastewater effluent. Therefore, land application of biosolids and wastewater irrigation can inadvertently introduce PFAS into the terrestrial environment.
Spring 2022 ESSC Brown Bag Series presents Dr. Mark Kissling, College of Education, Penn State
An exhibition displaying the architectural design work of 20 seniors in the architecture and sustainable design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be on display April 8-15 in The Gallery at Penn College.
A reception for “Architecture & Sustainable Design: Senior Capstone Projects” will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. (with remarks at 5 p.m.) on Friday, April 8, in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Agenda
Mike Jacobson - Update on opportunities for engaging this summer with Freiburg seed grant and WEF-Nexus Africa-PA Strategic Initiative re-start
Femeena Valappil - WEF-Nexus Africa-PA Strategic Initiative Systems Modeling of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Tool for Informed Decision Making in Data Scarce Regions
Janelle Larson - Children and Youth Empowerment Centre in Nyeri, Kenya and the Raithithi Polytechnic on their agricultural and youth development programs
A common strategy to control the nanoparticle (NP) distribution in composites is to graft polymer chains onto the NP surfaces. Polymer-grafted NPs can exhibit rich phase behavior due to complex interplays among chain conformational entropy, depletion effects, and enthalpic interactions. I will describe the use of a relatively new method, theoretically-informed Langevin dynamics (TILD) simulations, to determine the structure of polymer brushes on single grafted NPs and to calculate equilibrium phase diagrams for grafted NPs in solution and in polymer melts.
An exhibition displaying the architectural design work of 20 seniors in the architecture and sustainable design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be on display April 8-15 in The Gallery at Penn College.
A reception for “Architecture & Sustainable Design: Senior Capstone Projects” will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. (with remarks at 5 p.m.) on Friday, April 8, in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Gernot Wagner, NYU, will discuss "Green moral hazards" as part of the EarthTalks seminar series.