Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

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.

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEP) Seminar: A tale of two roads: groundwater depletion in the North China Plain Ujjatant Chakravorty, Professor of Economics, Tufts University

Dr. Erica Smithwick, Geography, Penn State, presenting "Envisioning a Climate Consortium: What is a University's Role in Combatting Climate Change?" Recording https://psu.zoom.us/rec/share/6Rb3BF_ZWbo38_f8Ymwy_6-ByrzmhZuWO9psJvxYKtGqVbKbpUfPPo-aYK9J7wIl.rogupPi6UrtHeJ-o

Water Insights is an interdisciplinary seminar series on water science, water management, and water policy sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES). Speakers include researchers, water managers, and water policy makers from Penn State, other universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. The series engages the University and broader community in collaborative learning and discussion about critical water challenges from local to global scales.

Since the 1970s, a key focus of the built environment research has been to improve the operational energy efficiency of buildings. An unintended consequence of operational energy efficiency has been high-performance buildings with higher embodied energy content and embodied carbon emissions due to factors such as more insulation or multiple-glazed windows in the building enclosure. This presentation provides an overview of research on the embodied energy and carbon in buildings and highlights the tradeoffs between operational and embodied energy/carbon. 

Integrated Energy Systems Faculty Search: Assessing the impact of subsurface energy and environmental activities on fault stability: A coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics perspective Josimar Alves da Silva, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dieter Helm, Oxford, will present as a part of the EESI EarthTalks Series: "Net Zero: how we stop causing climate change."

Penn State Association of Water Students CAMPS Presents: Wetlands 101

Dr. Jessica Koge, Associate Director of Mining; Director, Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Integrated Energy Systems Faculty Search: Understanding fault failure processes through physics-based modeling Valère Lambert, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institute of Technology  

Taylor Scott, Asst. Research Professor in the Penn State Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, will discuss the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, which aims to understand how research can inform decision makers at every level of government and has established models to help support scientists in understanding how policymakers use research.

Abstract: Engineered clay barriers are used globally to protect communities and their water resources from pollutants from industrial, municipal, and radioactive wastes. Bentonite, a high-swelling clay, is used in a wide range of engineered containment barriers, including compacted liners with bentonite-amended natural soils, manufactured geosynthetic clay liners, bentonite buffers for nuclear waste disposal, and soil-bentonite vertical cutoff walls.

Isabel Fendley ​University of Oxford 

Harry Campbell of The Chesapeake Bay Foundation presents "Save PA to Save the Bay—Strengths, challenges, opportunities, & threats in Pennsylvania’s efforts to meet clean water obligations"   Abstract:

Ying Bao, Assistant Professor Marketing at Gies College of Business University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign  

Dr. Kristina Douglass, Anthropology, Penn State, presenting "An oral history project and its ties to climate adaptation in southwest coastal Madagascar" *Given in cooperation with Rock Ethics Institute colloquium series*

The community is invited to participate in a public forum focused on understanding and managing climate-related impacts facing the Centre Region. The purpose of this forum is to bring people together to identify shared values, think about what the future might look like for the Centre Region, and explore common ground solutions.

The CECD is excited to host a new conversation series called “Stories from the Field: Applied Research in Practice." Speakers will share their experiences from the field to springboard conversations with attendees about the practice of community-engaged applied research. Join us for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities of doing work with communities, businesses, and the public sector.  

Water Insights is an interdisciplinary seminar series on water science, water management, and water policy sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES). Speakers include researchers, water managers, and water policy makers from Penn State, other universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. The series engages the University and broader community in collaborative learning and discussion about critical water challenges from local to global scales.

Jean-Paul Allain, Penn State, presenting The role of nuclear fusion in climate and sustainable development