Easterling brought holistic approach to pressing science problems at NSF
| psu.edu
Geographer and climate scientist William Easterling recently returned from a four-year position with the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he saw from a different perspective the complex and intertwining issues that have encompassed his decades-long career.
Microwave data assimilation improves forecasts of hurricane intensity, rainfall
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Adding microwave data to existing computer weather forecast models showed improvements in forecasting storm track, intensity and rainfall when using Hurricane Harvey as a case-study. Adding the readily available data to models could produce more accurate forecasts for future storms, Penn State scientists said.
Growing Impact: Visualizing history's future
| Featuring Peter Stempel
As sea-levels rise due to climate change, historical monuments and landscapes near bodies of water are at risk. A new research project will provide decision makers with information on what that could look like for their site. Specifically, the project is focused monuments and landscapes that are significant to African American, Indigenous, and other minority communities.
Food and fuel required to meet global challenges, say ag leaders
| cals.iastate.edu
Food and fuel—not food versus fuel—is the focus of a hopeful new commentary in the peer-reviewed scientific journal “Nature Sustainability.”
Increased storminess may give rise to North Atlantic’s ‘cold blob’
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While climate change is making much of the world warmer, temperatures in a subpolar region of the North Atlantic are getting cooler. A team of researchers report that changes in the wind pattern, among other factors, may be contributing to this “cold blob.”
Architectural engineering graduate student team recognized in lighting design contest
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Architectural engineering graduate student team recognized in lighting design contest.
Sanjay Srinivasan named distinguished member by Society of Petroleum Engineers
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Sanjay Srinivasan, department head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, has been honored as a distinguished member by the Society of Petroleum Engineers. One of 22 recipients selected for 2021, he joins only 696 other members honored since the establishment of the award in 1983.
US pushes for better tap water but must win over wary public
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Since the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, fewer Americans trust the water coming out of their taps
New exhibition to examine the impact of extraction economies on climate change
| psu.edu
A new exhibition examining the long-term spatial and ecological consequences of extraction economies and their impact on climate change will run Jan. 31 through March 4 in the Penn State Stuckeman School’s Rouse Gallery as part of the school’s Lecture and Exhibit Series.
Take Note: Infectious disease expert Andrew Read on why omicron doesn't mean COVID-19 is evolving to be less severe
| radio.wpsu.org
Andrew Read talked with us about the latest findings on the omicron variant and why it’s so difficult to predict how viruses evolve.
“Don’t Look Up” and the absurdity of climate inaction
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Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s newest feature film, uses humor and the metaphor of an impending, Earth-obliterating comet to satirize the ideological denial of climate change that pervades much of our current public discourse. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss how the film holds up a mirror to the political obstacles to climate action and false promises of future technological fixes.
Penn State Extension offers free webinar on sheep, goats grazing season Feb. 22
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Penn State Extension invites sheep and goat producers, as well as other agriculture industries, to join the “Wrangling More Days Out of the Grazing Season for Sheep and Goats” web-based seminar Feb. 22.