Past Events: Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar Archive

Dr. Jessica Tierney is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona who studies past climate change (paleoclimatology) to learn about how the Earth system works and what's in store for the future. Her research group focuses on studying past climates over a variety of timescales, using organic geochemical techniques and statistical climate reconstruction. This event is part of the Geosciences Colloquium Series.

Penn State, the Energy University: Energy Literacy and Emerging Energy Technologies - series begins 1/19/21 Series hosted by Bruce Logan “Examining our Daily Energy Use and Carbon Emissions – What you can and Cannot Control” – Part I in the Energy University Series  Bruce Logan  | Director of the Consortium for Integrated Energy Systems, and Associate Director of the Institutes for Energy & Environment | College of Engineering   

Seminars will be hosted by Zoom. A link will be provided here the week of the seminar.

A four-part virtual symposium series to expand networks and inspire creative strategies to promote biodiversity in urban, agricultural and natural areas, to improve human and ecological health and well-being. Purpose and Goals

Sessions will be recorded for those who cannot make it live.

Reversing global warming through Drawdown strategies provides a unifying and motivational theme under which faculty, staff, students, and community members can work together across traditional boundaries, providing inherent opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration in a variety of sustainability contexts. In this talk, learn how Penn State is infusing Drawdown into research, education, and outreach programs across the university and around the world through our Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus strategic initiative.

Learn simple ways to maintain your wooded area and how forests protect wildlife during this webinar! Owners of even small-wooded areas can make a positive difference in their environment through planning and implementing simple stewardship practices. During the Backyard Woodlots webinar, learn the benefits of how forests are improving landowners' surroundings, how forests protect wildlife, and simple ways to maintain your wooded area to provide benefits for years to come.  

Join this webinar to get an early look at unique farming practices deployed in conjunction with solar farming operations.

Learn about the Institutes of Energy and the Environment's 2020–21 Seed Grant Program, which is intended to foster basic and applied interdisciplinary energy and environmental research that leverages faculty expertise across the University. The deadline to submit proposals is 5 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2021.

The NCSE Drawdown 2021 Conference will feature everything our community values from past NCSE Annual Conferences with the addition of an exciting new collaboration with Project Drawdown. Given the staggering pace of change in the world today, combining the NCSE 2021 Annual Conference and the 2nd Global Drawdown—Research to Action Conference will exponentially amplify opportunities for collaboration and progress. 

Join us for the Water Cooler Talk: Climate Change and Water Resources in Pennsylvania webinar and gather around the virtual water cooler as one collective water resource community! Benjamin Watson, Coastal Climate Extension Specialist, will discuss how climate change is rewriting water use, availability, and management in Pennsylvania, with effects on our human and natural systems. This webinar will also focus on how climate change is affecting water resources in Pennsylvania, and what warmer temperatures and heavier rainfall mean for Pennsylvania's economy and ecology.

The Social Science Research Institute announces an interdisciplinary workshop on the What, Why and How of Implementation Science. Implementation Science (IS) aims to identify effective strategies for translating scientific discoveries into broad and sustained real-world use—toward the betterment of the human condition.  Most IS has focused on biomedical and health sciences. The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers from across Penn State with an introduction to IS and insights on how they can incorporate IS into their own research programs.   

Bioprocessing Innovation This session is part of the Penn State Future of Bioenergy and Biorenewables Workshop, presented by Penn State Center for Biorenewables

Learn about the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems and its new seed grant program. This seed grant is focused on the discovery of sustainable materials that are biological or inspired by biological principles. The aim is to seed collaborations between researchers at Penn State University and University of Freiburg by exploring bold and intellectually brave research that could make a significant difference for society at large.

Penn State faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate in a series of forums that are focused on energy. The first forum, Energy University: Concept and Current Activities, will take place from 9–10:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 11. Registration is required. The second and third events will occur in the spring.

The atmospheric response to variations in tropical latent heating extends well beyond its source region, and therefore it is thought that a reduction of tropical forecast errors should also benefit subsequent forecasts over the extratropics. In this presentation, we first review the mechanisms underlying tropical-to-extratropical teleconnections on subseasonal timescales.

The Center for the Business of Sustainability's next sustainability research seminar features Dr. Evelyn Thomchick, Associate Professor of supply chain management; Dr. Dan Ciolkosz, Associate Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; and Dr. Kusumal Ruamsook, Assistant Research Professor, Center for Supply Chain Research.

Agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa faces a multitude of challenges arising from land degradation, climate change, and limited access to improved technology. In this context, technologies that raise farmers' crop productivity while mitigating risk exposure are particularly valuable. This study assesses the impacts of a modified, rainfed variant of the system of rice intensification (SRI) on expected yields, yield variance (variability) and yield skewness (exposure to downside risk) in Tanzania.

IPPM virtual seminar: Industry perspective on IPM and environmental stewardship Dr. Christian Maus (Bayer) & Bruce Hall (Wymans of ME)

A discussion of the Select Penn State Presidential Commission on Racism, Bias, and Community Safety and the Student Code of Conduct Task Force draft recommendations that were in response to Penn State President Eric J.