Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society presents Shweta Singh, Purdue, who will share on From Ecology to Industrial Ecology: Engineering for Circular Economy. Zoom: 996 9324 2878 PW: 598520

Moderators:  Sanjay Srinivasan, John and Willie Leone Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME) Andy Kleit, professor of energy economics in EME Panelists include:

Integrated Energy Systems Faculty Search: Micromechanics of low-temperature plastic deformation in geologic materials Christopher Thom, Postdoctoral Research Asst & Laboratory Manager, Rock Rheology Laboratory, University of Oxford

The Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series is organized by Mihyun Kang, a research professor and director for sustainability in the College of Arts and Architecture, and Peter Buck, an academic program manager at the Sustainability Institute. The College of Arts and Architecture Sustainability Council Teaching and Learning Working Group will contribute to the Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series. The series will transform the culture of sustainability education and pedagogy, embedding it into the college’s teaching culture.

ABSTRACT: The tidal wave of expectations surrounding metals crucial for the rapidly escalating transition to a low-carbon economy, coupled with an increased focus on environmental-social-governance attributes and disclosures, makes 2021 an interesting year for the mining sector. Core issues include safe management of tailings facilities and respect for cultural heritage, both having intense focus and scrutiny.

This talk will explore some of the many ways that humans have used rivers over time, and how we continue to do so today. Since our earliest cities established along the Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, Nile, and Yellow Rivers, anthropogenic use of rivers has changed over time and varied by region. Yet their critical importance has persisted because they provide five fundamental benefits: access, natural capital, territory, well-being, and a means of projecting power. The manifestations of these benefits have changed, but societal demands for them have not.

The GIS Coalition will hold a  Youthmappers and USAID GeoCenter map-a-thon to map rural villages in Niger to help those communities gain access to electricity.  No experience is needed.  This is a beginner-friendly event. To participate, you will need: wifi an openstreetmap account This is a joint effort between Noah Rogers and Thomas Updiek to increase participation from students and get them involved with Youthmappers.

John Kotek, VP for Policy & Public Affairs, Nuclear Energy Institute presents "The Role of Nuclear Energy in Our Future Energy Systems"

The Penn State Association of Water Students (PAWS) will be holding a panel discussion with professionals with graduate degrees in positions outside of academia. This panel will be taking place on April 8th from 4:00 - 5:15 pm. The 75-minute event will consist of 10 minutes of introductions, 50 minutes of moderator’s questions, and 15 minutes of questions from the audience. The panelists for this event will represent the policy, non-profit, government, and consulting fields. Panelists will be announced soon!

Dan Azzara, Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, and Maria Spencer, the John and Patty Warehime Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the College of Agricultural Sciences, will discuss how your intellectual property can be harnessed to help broader audience.

Guest Presenter Dina Gilio-Whitaker, lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos The Global Council for Science and the Environment & The Land Peace Foundation invite you to join them for the "Indigenous Knowledge & Western Science: Collaboration, Relationship, and Climate Solutions" Online Learning Series.

Looking at the 2-, 5-, and 10-year challenges for the catalysis industry, such as moving towards a cleaner and sustainable future, addressing evolving energy and raw material scenarios, understanding catalysis from the molecular to application scale, etc.

Geosciences Colloquium Series presents Christopher Jackson, Chair Professor, Sustainable Geosciences, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Join the Hamer Center for Community Design for its next virtual Coffee Hour on Tuesday titled “Design and Health Collaboration in the Built and Biophysical Environment.”  

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.

Chemical Engineering Seminar hosts Bryan W. Boudouis, Purdue University

Meltwater runoff is now the leading process by which the Greenland Ice Sheet is transferring mass to the global ocean.  Southwestern Greenland, in particular, experiences extensive melting each summer, creating a transient drainage pattern of supraglacial streams, rivers, lakes, and moulins on the ice sheet surface.  This little-studied hydrological system, which is largely unrepresented in current climate/surface mass balance models, interacts with surface mass balance and ice motion in significant ways.

David Victor, University of California San Diego, presenting "Making climate policy work"  

The Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series is organized by Mihyun Kang, a research professor and director for sustainability in the College of Arts and Architecture, and Peter Buck, an academic program manager at the Sustainability Institute. The College of Arts and Architecture Sustainability Council Teaching and Learning Working Group will contribute to the Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series. The series will transform the culture of sustainability education and pedagogy, embedding it into the college’s teaching culture.