You are invited to participate in an afternoon of dialogue on invasive species. This event is intended to bring together biologists, ecologists, humanists, social scientists, with state and local stakeholders for the purpose of cross-disciplinary analysis of this contemporary issue.
Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive
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Dr. Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte discusses the modern energy economy's reliance on the injection and withdrawal of fluids through fracture networks in rock with presentations from active and passive monitoring of fractures in the laboratory to illuminate and characterize fractures, and an example of machine learning to identified changes in fluid saturation within a fracture set.
Joseph J. Berry is a Distinguished Alumnus in the Department of Physics at Penn State, and Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory working on halide perovskite solar cells. His efforts at NREL emphasize relating basic interfacial properties to relevant device level behaviors in traditional and novel semiconductor heterostructures including oxides, organics and most recently hybrid semiconductors.
Join us for a conversation with Extension Educator Walt Whitmer about insights on community-led stakeholder engagement from the five-year “Water for Agriculture” project.
Presented by the Penn State Materials Research Institute, the Materials Spotlight Series is designed to create connections and spark discussions between industry and Penn State faculty and students that lead to productive research collaborations.
Join us for the first spring semester film in the Soundings water film series co-presented by Penn State’s Sustainability Institute, Penn State’s Water Council, and WPSU. This online series explores the Sustainable Development Goals and the many ways in which water issues intersect with sustainability.
Join us for the sixth annual Arthur W. Page Center Awards to honor Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor at CNN; Ken Chenault, chairman and managing director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst and former chairman and CEO of American Express; and Andy Polansky, chairman and CEO of IPG DXTRA and executive chairman at Weber Shandwick.
These renowned communicators will receive the Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication at a special virtual awards event on Feb. 23, 2022.
The Advice from the Woods: Ask Our Experts event involves a panel of Forestry and Wildlife Extension Educators and Faculty tackling participant-submitted or commonly-asked questions and scenarios as a team. This is an opportunity to meet your whole team of experts at once, and for a given issue, hear discussion between multiple informed perspectives to help you gain a better handle on the many complex factors involved in addressing or solving an issue.
We examine economic incentives for carbon farming under the requirement of climate integrity. The identified key requirements for climate integrity comprise measurement and verification, permanence, and additionality at farm, market, and national levels. Farmers make carbon contracts for a finite time either in voluntary markets or with the government. Agricultural practices are multiple requiring thus detailed calculations of GHG emissions and C sequestration when making carbon contracts.
Participants will learn how to discuss leasing issues with developers and attorneys, including leasing language.
Join us to discuss the importance of a landscape-scale approach to wetland restoration and protection.
Water Cooler Talk: Wetlands and Better Water Quality Futures will discuss the importance of a landscape-scale approach to wetland restoration and protection, and will provide a broad context for thinking about the effects of wetlands on water quality. More than 50% of global wetland area has been lost over the last 200 years, resulting in losses of habitat and species diversity as well as decreased hydrologic and biogeochemical functionality.
Department of Geosciences Colloquium Series presents Nick Dygert, University of Tennessee Knoxville
One of the goals of the 2030 Challenge, adopted by The American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Green Building Council, is renovation of existing building stock to achieve 50% reduction in fossil fuel use. This goal translates into about 1.5 million major retrofits (i.e., insulation, air sealing and/or heating system upgrades) of existing homes per year.
The summit will feature speakers in four key areas: endocrine disruption, child health and development, environmental economics, and environmental justice. Speakers will include, respectively, Dr. Linda Birnbaum (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Duke University), Dr. Élyse Caron-Beaudoin (University of Toronto Scarborough), Dr. Nicholas Muller (Carnegie Mellon University), and Rev. Dr. Gregory Simpson (Nauraushaun Presbyterian Church).
William Walters, assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, will discuss advanced nuclear reactors and their role in combatting climate change during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 21. The talk will take place via Zoom.
Interested in how to get your work into the hands of policymakers? Want to know how to frame your science to increase its value by decision makers? Would you like to engage directly with leaders about your science?
The EIC's mission is to improve the relevance, value and use of research evidence by leaders through cross-disciplinary partnerships. This workshop on February 21 from 1 - 2 p.m. will showcase resources available through the EIC’s Research Translation Platform to enhance science communication and engagement.
2022 Ashtekar Frontiers of Science
The AI Revolution: Using artificial intelligence for socially responsible science
Presented by S. Shyam Sundar
Director of CSRAI and James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects at Penn State
Collaborative governance is an approach to public policy that helps parties reach across political, cultural, social, physical, and geographical boundaries, in order to overcome conflict, seek mutual understanding and common ground, and identify areas for mutual gains. But collaboration is not easy or natural for many people. Most benefit from assistance to help increase their capacity to initiate, participate in, and/or lead collaborative public policy efforts.
Long-term energy markets are being shaped by two primary forces: macroeconomic factors driving a future rise in world energy demand and global efforts to lower emissions. Affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy is essential to human progress. At Chevron, we believe the future of energy is lower carbon and are committed to supplying the energy that the world needs in a sustainable way. Our Company’s efforts, which have spanned more than 140 years, are supported by a commitment to environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues.
This event is part of the Women Advancing River Research series.