Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Join Global Programs, the College of Agricultural Sciences, and the College of Engineering to learn about the U.S. Agency for International Development, its priority areas, how it works, and how you can access funding for your work around the globe. Sessions for both faculty and staff involved in grants. Email intlag@psu.edu to register.

Please join us on Friday, April 2, 2021 at 11:00am EDT for a research seminar jointly sponsored by Smeal College of Business's Institute for Real Estate Studies and the Center for the Business of Sustainability. Professor Carles Vergara-Alert of IESE Business School will present a paper titled "Housing and Mortgage Markets with Climate Change Risk: Evidence from Wildfires in California." The seminar will be presented via Zoom, and registration is registration is required.

Renowned scholar and activist Robert Bullard will present the virtual keynote talk at Penn State’s 2021 Colloquium on the Environment. Bullard will discuss “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice in the U.S." at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 1. The talk is open to all campuses and to the public.

Kieran Dunne Rice University  Geological and Hydroclimatic Controls on Alluvial Morphology and Sedimentary Environments

Advanced reactors are increasingly viewed as part of the future energy mix, and the level of interest in these new technologies is growing in the United States. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been preparing to license these technologies through establishing a modern, risk-informed, technology-inclusive regulatory framework.

Energy for the Future Seminar: Thresholds, Timing, and Teleconnections: A coupled water-power-economic analysis

Climate scientists are working to make climate models and analysis more applicable to real life cases of extreme climate/weather events. I will talk about a relatively new method, called “storylines”, that has emerged as a useful way to understand extreme events and their impacts, although it remains somewhat controversial. This is part of the Science and Values in Climate Risk Management webinar series, hosted by the Rock Ethics Institute and the Center for Climate Risk Management.  

This seminar features Michael Ducker, the VP for Renewable Fuels & Western Region at Mitsubishi Power, who will be speaking about green hydrogen storage and hydrogen gas turbines. His seminar will be followed by a 1-hour networking session for graduate students to talk about careers in power generation. Michael is a Penn State alum and so will have a great perspective for students. 

Susan C. van den Heever, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University  

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEP) Seminar featuring Damian C. Adams, Associate Professor, Natural Resource Economics & Policy, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, University of Florida  

Environmental factors impact health, including air and water pollution, pesticides/herbicides, and other dynamics. In addition, such impacts are often compounded by environmental justice concerns, as has been emphasized further by COVID-19 disproportionate impact on minority communities. Because Penn State has numerous researchers working on both cancer and the environment, this session will be a chance to share research and discuss potential opportunities for collaboration in this space.   Logistics:   Wednesday, March 31st, 10 AM-12:00 PM Eastern 

Anastasia Piliouras Los Alamos National Laboratory Examining Arctic delta form and function with an eye towards a warming climate

Researchers whose work addresses natural and cultural resource management topics can learn about partnering opportunities with federal agencies at the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program Workshop. The workshop will take place from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30, via Zoom.

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.

Session 5: Nexus and sustainability in theory and practice: Examples from Iran  

Paul Shrivastava presenting "Energy and climate challenges in an increasingly unequal world: Penn State’s holistic sustainability approach to avoiding a global hothouse"

Nanoporous carbonaceous materials which contain pores from 0.3 to 100 nm are widely used in modern technologies as adsorbents, catalysts, separation membranes, components of full cells and solar batteries, energy storage devices and transformation media. Their engineering properties are determined by their structural parameters, such as porosity, surface area, pore size distribution, pore connectivity, surface roughness and energetic heterogeneity.

Nate Pope, Penn State presents "Seminar: The evolutionary consequences of rapid range expansion for a crop-specialized pollinator"

Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba Montclair State University Modeling the evolution of fluvial deltas under sea-level cycles: A moving boundary framework

A panel of energy experts from Penn State and industry will discuss the meaning of energy resilience and how decisions on how resilient our energy networks should be are made.  The event will be moderated by Seth Blumsack, professor of energy policy and economics in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME). He also is a professor of international affairs in Penn State’s School of International Affairs and is the director of the Center for Energy Law and Policy. Panelists include: