Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Planning and managing the green infrastructure of street trees, parks, and open spaces will help any municipality safely take advantage of the many benefits these assets provide. With proper planning and management, these assets appreciate and pay us back with time.

Please join us for our inaugural two-day research showcase, highlighting research accomplishments of Penn State Harrisburg faculty, staff, and students. Multiple panel presentations are planned and you can attend all of the sessions in person or virtually.

The Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Student Farm at Penn State will once again be welcoming the campus and community to the farm for its 6th annual Harvest Festival. The event will take place on Oct. 7, 2021 from 5-7 p.m. EDT. 

Digital fairness is a crucial consideration for any scientist who relies on computation. Who owns artificial intelligence models and who owns the data in those models? What biases are unintentionally embedded in the models? How transparent are the data manipulation processes? How reproducible are the results? The answer to these questions could have a myriad of impacts on both the science being conducted and the communities that could potentially benefit from these investigations.

Please join us for our inaugural two-day research showcase, highlighting research accomplishments of Penn State Harrisburg faculty, staff, and students. Multiple panel presentations are planned and you can attend all of the sessions in person or virtually.

Dr. Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia, Department of Geography, will synthesize his various scholarly studies on urbanization, weather, and climate. As the recipient of the AMS Helmut Landsberg Award, he brings a body of expertise to bear on the scholarly work and relevant societal implications. He will use current research and societal challenges as the focus of his study.  

Planning and managing the green infrastructure of street trees, parks, and open spaces will help any municipality safely take advantage of the many benefits these assets provide. With proper planning and management, these assets appreciate and pay us back with time.

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar Ellen Bruno is an assistant cooperative extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts research and outreach on economic and policy issues relevant to California’s agriculture and natural resources, with a particular focus on groundwater. She holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. in management science from the University of California, San Diego.

Digital fairness is a crucial consideration for any scientist who relies on computation. Who owns artificial intelligence models and who owns the data in those models? What biases are unintentionally embedded in the models? How transparent are the data manipulation processes? How reproducible are the results? The answer to these questions could have a myriad of impacts on both the science being conducted and the communities that could potentially benefit from these investigations.

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2022: The 2021 National Extension Energy Summit & National Sustainability Summit, a joint effort of the National Extension Energy Initiative (NEEI), National Network for Sustainable Living Education (NNSLE), and National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI), will take place October 4-6, 2021 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of Penn State University.

Max Lloyd, Penn State University, presents "Feedbacks between land plants and atmospheric pCO2 revealed by clumped isotopes in modern and fossil wood" as part of the ​Department of Geosciences Colloquium Series.

Water contamination is ubiquitous and persists across our water resources and supply. Much attention is given to newly identified and emerging contaminants, but we also struggle to successfully mitigate “old,” or well-known, contaminants, which have included ammonia, nitrate, and, more recently, phosphate in municipal wastewaters. However, these compounds are also critical nutrients used to support the global industrialized agriculture sector.

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2022: The 2021 National Extension Energy Summit & National Sustainability Summit, a joint effort of the National Extension Energy Initiative (NEEI), National Network for Sustainable Living Education (NNSLE), and National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI), will take place October 4-6, 2021 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of Penn State University.

Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive and deadly. Both humans and climate are contributing to this trend. The Fall 2021 EESI EarthTalks series, “Fire in the Earth System,” will address humanity’s long relationship with fire, how humans and climate create conditions conducive to megafires, and how policy makers and land managers can address the fire problem. The seminars, which are free and open to the public, take place from 4 – 5 p.m. on Mondays via Zoom.

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2022: The 2021 National Extension Energy Summit & National Sustainability Summit, a joint effort of the National Extension Energy Initiative (NEEI), National Network for Sustainable Living Education (NNSLE), and National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI), will take place October 4-6, 2021 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of Penn State University.

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2022: The 2021 National Extension Energy Summit & National Sustainability Summit, a joint effort of the National Extension Energy Initiative (NEEI), National Network for Sustainable Living Education (NNSLE), and National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI), will take place October 4-6, 2021 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of Penn State University.

All Penn State faculty, staff, trainees and students interested in cancer research careers are invited to attend the fourth annual Cancer Research Day online conference.  The keynote speaker is Dr. Dan Theodorescu, director of Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. The guest speaker is Keith Wonnacott, executive director of regulatory affairs at Pfizer, Inc. Agenda coming soon.

Join a conversation with Dr. Josh Newton, the founder of Josh’s Water Jobs (https://www.joshswaterjobs.com), which connects young professionals with job opportunities and promoting career development. Josh is also an independent consultant and expert in global water governance and political processes, and stakeholder engagement, and utilizes his knowledge of the international water and sanitation communities to help institutions develop their institutional strategies and drive political processes related to water.

Energy for the Future Seminar Series: Characterizing and controlling the propagation of mechanical discontinuity using unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement learning techniques Siddharth Misra, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M

Join Penn State faculty, staff, and student colleagues working on water and water-related initiatives across research, education, and outreach and engagement. This event is an opportunity to learn about key Water Consortium initiatives such as funding and faculty hires, the Water Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), the new water student club – the Penn State Association of Water Students (PAWS) – and related and upcoming opportunities for both students and faculty.