Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Carbonate Critical Zone seminar: Weathering of rock to regolith: The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures Dr. Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, St. Louis University Must register at following link; details will be sent to your email. https://uark.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkc-6vqDMtHN1GpdE_bdHVIv3TAdGMV… @ 11:00 AM

Climate change is a critical scientific and social issue, and nowhere are the consequences of a warming climate more pronounced and observable than in the Arctic region. FROZEN OBSESSION follows the 2,000-mile Northwest Passage Project expedition through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago aboard an icebreaker.   The goal of the expedition's scientists, journalist, Arctic scholar, and 23 graduate and undergraduate students is to research, document, and communicate about the impacts of warming on the Arctic environment, its inhabitants, and the global citizenry.

Remote sensing of inland lakes and rivers using machine learning and cloud computing Min Xu, University of South Florida EESI Data Analytics Search

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.

NOBCChE Chemistry Seminar Series Bioprocessing and Sustainable Agriculture (Special Evening Seminar) Presented by Jonathan Jones, Corteva Agriscience Sponsored by New England Biolabs

The spring 2021 EarthTalks series, "Energy and Climate Policy: How to Avoid a Global Hothouse," will focus on policies and technologies that could help slow down global warming. It will address questions related to carbon taxes, renewable energy subsidies, and the feasibility of carbon sequestration, among other topics. The series will be held in conjunction with EARTH 400, a course for students who wish to pursue these topics in greater depth. The seminars, which are free and open to the public, take place from 4 – 5 p.m. on Mondays via Zoom.

High human population densities on the world’s tropical shores and changing environmental conditions such as a warming global climate have had significant and detrimental impacts on coral reefs. It is imperative that we take immediate action to reduce carbon emissions to slow down the rate of global warming. Meanwhile, it is in our best interest to ensure the continued existence of functioning coral reef ecosystems because they provide important services to local and global economies, including food and shoreline protection.

Karen Seto, Yale University, Contemporary Urbanization: Problem or Panacea for the Planet? EMS 125th Anniversary Honorary Lecture

While the advent of advanced power converter technologies, communication systems, and information technology has improved the efficiency and flexibility of energy supply, more challenges have been introduced to the security and control of energy systems. In this presentation, three aspects of optimization, distributed control, and cybersecurity of integrated cyber-physical energy systems will be discussed.

Seminar: Bee pollinator toxicogenomics and phylogenomic tracking of insecticide selectivity determinants

Prioritarianism is an ethical view that gives extra weight to the well-being of the worse-off. Like utilitarianism, prioritarianism is consequentialist (it evaluates choices in light of their possible outcomes) and welfarist (the goodness of outcomes is seen as reducible to facts about individuals’ well-being). Utilitarianism ranks outcomes according to the simple sum of well-being. Prioritarianism, by contrast, employs a concave transformation function for well-being—the effect of which is to accord priority to the worse-off.

Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action is a new monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, cross-cutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to national policy action on climate change.

Hear from USDA NIFA Directors Megan O’Rourke, National Program Leader, Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, & Environment and Erica Kistner-Thomas, National Program Leader at the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability, about opportunities for interdisciplinary, collaborative research programs.

How predictable are future changes in Arctic sea ice, and in particular the occurrence of ice-free conditions in the summer? I will answer this question using ensemble simulations from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) forced by a range of emission pathways, resulting in global temperature changes of 1.5°C to 4.5°C above pre-industrial by the year 2100. I will show that after 2045, scenario uncertainty dominates over internal-variability uncertainty for projections of Arctic September sea ice extent.

Have you ever wondered “Why did Penn State create the Corporate Engagement Center?” or “What does the Corporate Engagement Center do?” or “How does the center identify and prioritize the companies you work with?” If so, mark your calendars for the first Corporate Engagement Center Meet ‘n’ Greet.  

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEP) seminar: Effectiveness of Command-and-Control in Mitigating Industrial Pollution: Evidence from Environmental Regulation in India Ashish Tyagi, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management  

Dr. Kate Freeman, Geosciences, Penn State Special Series: Cutting-Edge Climate Research at Penn State - Contributions from the Nexus of EESI and the Climate Science Dual-Title Graduate Program

Crystal Ng, ​University of Minnesota presents “First We Must Consider Manoomin”: Tribally Directed Collaborative Research on Wild Rice

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.

Rob Socolow Princeton University "The urgency and pitfalls of swapping the current energy system for a low-carbon one"