Penn State has been partnering with a program for vulnerable children and youth in Kenya, the Children and Youth Empowerment Centre, since 2009. Through this collaboration, students collaborate with staff at the Centre to develop programming focused on youth and enterprise development. Our goal is to facilitate learning and growth for all the young people involved.
Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive
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The Penn State Center for Security Research and Education, in partnership with the Center for Energy Law and Policy and the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences, will host a Critical Infrastructure Protection Workshop at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on March 30 and April 1, 2022. The purpose of the event is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations and academic, public, and private partnerships to address challenges across the critical infrastructure sectors. Please save the date to join us, fellow Penn State faculty, researchers from o
Columbia University's Adam Sobel will discuss the responsibility of climate scientists at 4 p.m. Monday, March 28, as part of the EarthTalks seminar series.
The research and teaching program lead by Dr. Denita Hadziabdic in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee focuses on population genetics of fungal plant pathogens, population biology, forest health, forest pathology, and diversity and conservation efforts of native plants. Dr. Hadziabdic’s lab is interested in understanding the complexity of host-pathogen-vector interactions and the microbial communities that comprise the phytobiome of plant hosts across their introduced and native ranges.
Robert Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region. Enormously popular when released in 1922, Nanook of the North is a cinematic milestone that continues to enchant audiences.
1922 | Not Rated | 1h 18m
After the screening of this iconic film, Dr. Kirk French will provide a brief synopsis of his A Century After Nanook project and a brief Q&A.
Over a decade of examining parcel level electricity and natural gas consumption in California reveals the issues facing forging a ‘just transition’ away from natural gas, or combustion based energy. It shows significant energy consumption inequality across socio-demographic groups, and the real challenge of moving toward full electrification. I discuss our data analysis methods and our findings, with suggestions for moving forward.
A global catastrophe like a nuclear war, volcanic eruption or large asteroid strike would endanger the agricultural productivity by reducing sunlight and temperature and disrupting rainfall patterns, thus threatening the starvation of survivors of the initial event. To feed the human population, the potential of food crops like mushrooms are explored. Mushrooms like Pleurotus ostreatus and Pholiota nameko prefer cool growing conditions and complete their lifecycle within 30- 40 days. Cold strains of the mushrooms are selected and can be grown on woody substrates.
Participate in a series of four workshops on topics related to health and the built environment throughout the 2021–22 academic year.
The U.S. has spent approximately $5 trillion to improve surface and drinking water quality since 1970, yet the social costs of water pollution remain poorly understood. Efforts to recover benefit estimates of improvement programs have been minimal, and few of those estimates look at benefits that vary across space. This stands in sharp contrast to advancements in the air pollution literature. In this talk, Dr. Kling will discuss a proposal for a national integrated assessment model (IAM) of nutrient pollution.
This event is part of the Penn State EnvironMentors Spring 2022 Webinar Series aimed at introducing high school students to the EnvironMentors program.
Topic: Water and Biogeochemical Cycles Webinar
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).
Topic: Construction of data visualization products, representative of previous week air quality data.
Solar Leasing Questions, Answers, and Wrap Up will feature veteran speakers from previous solar events, returning to offer their comments to questions you may still have with the topic of leasing land for solar energy development.
As there will be no formal presentations made, please come ready to submit questions you might still have!
Spring 2022 ESSC Brown Bag Series presents Dr. Michelle Frazer, Geosciences, Penn State
This information session will be geared towards undergraduate students and prospective graduate students.
Economists and policy experts generally agree that the first step for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is to put a price on carbon. Although carbon pricing has been adopted by countries that account for 22% of global emissions, it has proven difficult to get legislation passed in the United States. Sylvia Neely, co-leader of State College’s chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, will discuss options for pricing carbon, why a carbon fee and dividend policy would be effective, and the political and foreign policy implications in a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 21.
Geochemistry Forum: Road to Equilibrium: Stable Isotope Distribution in Gaseous Alkanes and Thermal History of Geological Hydrocarbons
Hao Xie, Penn State
341 Deike and Zoom @ 03:30 PM
Join the Sustainability Institute online, Fridays at noon for our signature Sustainability Showcase Speaker Series, this year themed around the idea of “Driving It Home” — taking the big-picture sustainability issues and driving them down to the local and personal level. On March 18, we will be joined by Nicole McLaughlin, a New York-based designer focused on the ever-evolving exploration around upcycling and sustainable fashion.
Presentation was moved to March 17 due to weather.
The School of Public Public Policy Seminar Series will host Valerie Mueller for a seminar titled "Sunny Day" Flooding and Mortality Risk on Thursday, March 17 from 12-1pm. Registration is required.
Dr. Katherine Lininger, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Wei Ren is an associate professor at the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky. She earned her MS in Meteorology at the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, and Ph.D. in Ecosystem Ecology at Auburn University. Dr. Ren uses an integrated system approach that combines numerical modeling, multi -source observations from field measurements, sensor monitoring, remote sensing imagery, and big -data analytical tools to investigate ecosystem dynamics (productivity, soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient leaching, etc. ) under global environmental changes.