Join us for an evening celebrating Penn State’s sustainability progress and future directions. Together, we’ll enjoy time to network with faculty, staff, and student sustainability champions from across the university, including remarks from President Eric Barron.
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The Department of Chemical Engineering is pleased to virtually host Dr. Delia Milliron, Professor & Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, on Thursday, January 20 at 10:35am to present her virtual seminar titled “Assemblies of doped metal oxide nanocrystals.”
How to reconstruct past sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) from historical measurements containing more than 100 million ship-based observations taken by over 500,000 ships from more than 150 countries using a variety of methodologies creates a wide range of historical, scientific, and statistical challenges.
This new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Mexican Academy of Sciences examines the border region shared by the United States and Mexico which is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safeguarding the region's natural resources and to ensuring the sustainable development and livelihoods of its residents.
Collectively, we have been working towards the restoration of Chesapeake Bay for around five decades; in fact, CRC is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. We have seen a lot of progress, but we also still have a long way to go. What needs to happen to keep moving us forward? One answer to that question is incorporating more social science into the restoration effort. Without thoughtfully considering the lives and actions of the 18 million people in the watershed, we’re left with a large blind spot.
Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Initiative Speaker Series presents Smokestacks and the Swamp with Stefan Lewellen, Penn State
Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) is a design technique that replicates historic development patterns found in American towns that mimic those built in the pre - 1950s America before the shift to low-density, automobile-dependent suburban developments, and applies their basic elements to new development projects. TND includes compact, pedestrian-friendly development with a mix of land uses in a town setting.
Department of Geosciences Colloquium Series presents Karen Fisher-Vanden and Mort Webster, Penn State University.
Biography: Alyssa Findlay has been an editor at Nature Climate Change since 2019, handling papers broadly in climate impacts and adaptation. She holds a doctorate in oceanography from the University of Delaware and completed postdoctoral work in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and in the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Overview of the Pennsylvania Climate Leadership Academy (PCLA) program including mission summary and opportunities for future participants. Specifics will focus on the partnership with the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) including their initiatives, membership, training and credentialing as well as a summary of association successes to date.
Presenter: Daniel M. Kreeger, Executive Director, Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO)
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The Microbiome Center presents "A continental scale assessment of agricultural soil microbiomes" with Elizabeth Rieke, Soil Health Institute.
Meteo Colloquium presents Ted Shepherd, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK.
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World leaders and diplomats from nearly 200 countries attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, to set new targets for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. Penn State attendee Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences, will share his impressions about which efforts succeeded and which did not, along with his thoughts about the best path forward to net zero emissions, during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 10. The talk will take place in 112 Walker Building and be streamed via Zoom.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as ‘forever chemicals,’ have been manufactured and used in a variety of industrial and consumer products in the United States since the 1940s, but have only recently received broad public interest. Numerous PFAS are present in the environment and have the potential to adversely affect human health and aquatic life. Many are asking how is the Chesapeake Bay region impacted by PFAS and what is being done to protect and manage the watershed?
Ancient DNA data are being used in a variety of ways to gain a richer understanding of the past. This talk explores how ancient DNA can be used to help refine radiocarbon dating. Since there is a biological maximum for the number of years between the deaths of relatives, the ability to identify related individuals through aDNA analysis can serve as a constraint on date range estimates for radiocarbon-dated related individuals. A review of an ancient DNA global dataset found that date ranges can be reduced by dozens or even hundreds of years for related individuals.
The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is a useful framework for addressing complex transdisciplinary natural resource and environmental challenges in integrated, innovative ways. This webinar series explores using and operationalizing WEF nexus approaches for finding solutions to these challenges. The series focuses on examples and solutions by linking and using WEF nexus approaches to timely interventions, technologies and issues of importance, especially in the context of COVID-19 and climate change.
The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment is a family foundation focused on how a vibrant economy provides support for regional economies. Geographic focal areas include the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays and Northern California and the San Francisco Bay watershed.
The National Academies’ Committee to Advise the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) (“the Committee”) is using its convening authority to support USGCRP’s engagement with a wide range of potential users in its work.
Meteorology Colloquium presents Ke Chen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Entomology, Penn State, presents as part of the Fall 2021 ESSC Brown Bag Series.