Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics Seminar hosts Calistus Ngonghala, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Florida presents "Land use change and population growth in subsistence agriculture: escaping the curse of poverty trap"
Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive
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Land Use Change and Population Growth in Subsistence Agriculture: Escaping the Curse of Poverty Trap
The UN Food Systems Summit will serve as a historic opportunity to empower all people to leverage the power of food systems to drive our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and get us back on track to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Penn State is hosting a virtual symposium Sept. 23-24 that will explore how architects and designers in related disciplines can gain a better understanding of the impact the built environment has on shaping society’s inequalities, how the decisions they make as design professionals have consequences, and how they can help bring about better social equity in an increasingly polarizing world.
Liying Qian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, presents “The Earth’s Thermosphere and Ionosphere System and its Coupling to the Lower Atmosphere“
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment invites graduate students to apply for the 2021 Graduate Student Science Communication Workshop. It is open to graduate students of all disciplines, but the focus of the workshop will center around energy outreach and education.
The event will occur over two days, from 1–3 p.m. on both Tuesday, Sept. 21, and Wednesday, Sept. 22. The workshop will be conducted online via Zoom.
Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Initiative Speaker Series: Distributional Differences in Nutrition by Poverty Status
Rebecca Cleary, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Colorado State University
The Sigma Xi : The Scientific Research Honor Society welcomes you to a seminar by James F. Kasting, Evan Pugh Professor, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State, on "The Search for Life on Planets Around Other Stars"
David Polly, Indiana University Bloomington presents "Punctuated equilibrium, Earth systems, and the Common Cause hypothesis extended: A new look at Gould's Pleistocene snails from Bermuda" as part of the Department of Geosciences Colloquium Series.
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment invites graduate students to apply for the 2021 Graduate Student Science Communication Workshop. It is open to graduate students of all disciplines, but the focus of the workshop will center around energy outreach and education.
The event will occur over two days, from 1–3 p.m. on both Tuesday, Sept. 21, and Wednesday, Sept. 22. The workshop will be conducted online via Zoom.
Chemical Engineering Seminar
"Elucidating Electrocatalytic Processes for Energy Storage and Conversion with Operando Vibrational Spectroscopy"
Matthias Waegele
Boston College
The Millennium Café in the Garden – Tuesday 9/21, 10-11am will be an opportunity to grab a cup of complimentary coffee, hear a brief introduction of two exciting opportunities, and make some new connections. This event will occur outdoors, rain or shine (the garden is covered), and just outside the MRI entrance of the MSC.
The Future of the Business of Sustainability Depends on Science
Dan Cahoy | Research Director, Smeal Center for the Business of Sustainability
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.
Since the era of waterborne jaundice and polio, diseases spread by viruses were present prior to our understanding of these unique biological entities. Environmental virology attempts to understand the disease risk through the monitoring of viruses in wastewater, fresh and marine waters. The advent of molecular tools and high throughput sequencing technologies coupled with metagenomics has offered the opportunity to identify human viral pathogens including global spread of diseases such COVID-19.
Hear lightning talks from SAFES Critical Issue Initiative conveners, who will briefly discuss the research directions and opportunities to join and engage:
● Agricultural Sustainability in Urbanized Landscapes (convener: Dave Abler, Ph.D.)
● Food Choice and Health (convener: Ted Jaenicke, Ph.D.)
● Transformative Water Quality Solutions (convener: Jon Duncan, Ph.D.)
● Resilient Coupled Human-Earth Systems (convener: Karen Fisher-Vanden, Ph.D.)
● Bioeconomy Solutions (conveners: Tom Richard, Ph.D. and Juliana Vasco-Correa Ph.D.)
Discussion and Q&A with Joan Rose about the ebbs and flow of her life working in water science.
Joan B. Rose holds the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2011) and the winner of the 2016 Stockholm Water Prize.
Join us for the inaugural film in our 2021-22 Driving It Home film series, part of the Sustainability Institute’s Intersections film series. Our first film is Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Josh Tickell’s Kiss the Ground, which explores regenerative agricultural practices and the need to care for our soil for both the sake of our food systems and global climate change.
Abstract: Changes in the frequency or intensity of midlatitude weather extremes, such as cold spells, heat waves, or heavy precipitation, in a warming climate are associated with changes in atmospheric circulation and moisture transport. In this talk, I will first present a framework for the dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms over the full probability distributions of precipitation using a quantile-conditional moisture budget.
Many graduates remember their experience with undergraduate research as one of the best parts of their college career. Join us to learn about what undergraduate research entails and the benefits of getting involved.
Registration is required.
Co-sponsored with University Libraries, Career Services, Office for Research Protections.
College Connections is a monthly webinar series moderated by Dean Rick Roush to give you a unique, inside perspective of the programs, people, priorities, and partnerships of the Penn State College of Ag Sciences.
Join us the third Wednesday of every month from 1-2 p.m. to meet and interact with college personnel and guest speakers and learn how the college is impacting Pennsylvania agriculture and communities across the Commonwealth.
On September 15 we will feature – MODERN GENETIC APPROACHES TO ADVANCE AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH
Julio Ramos, Penn State, presents "Economic Interests, Partisan Politics, and Environmental Polarization"