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Gorski to use NSF CAREER award to expand access to clean water and electricity

| psu.edu

Christopher Gorski, assistant professor of environmental engineering at Penn State, will develop devices that use electricity to desalinate water and can also generate their own electricity, thanks to an esteemed National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) award.

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Springing back into the hunt for greenhouse gases - NASA Science

Springing back into the hunt for greenhouse gases - NASA Science

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A NASA mission looking at carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in relation to weather systems in the eastern half of the U.S. just began a fourth round of science flights, which may reveal that big spring storms are pushing around quite a bit of carbon dioxide.

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One-fifth of carbon entering coastal waters of eastern North America is buried | Penn State University

One-fifth of carbon entering coastal waters of eastern North America is buried

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Coastal waters play an important role in the carbon cycle by transferring carbon to the open ocean or burying it in wetland soils and ocean sediments, a new study shows.

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Sanitizing hospital sewage | Penn State University

Sanitizing hospital sewage

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Researchers at Penn State have developed a water filtration system that removes contaminants and reduces toxicity in hospital wastewater.

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Penn State-developed plant-disease app recognized by Google | Penn State University

Penn State-developed plant-disease app recognized by Google

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A mobile app designed by Penn State researchers to help farmers and others diagnose crop diseases has earned recognition from one of the world's tech giants. PlantVillage, developed by a team led by David Hughes, associate professor of entomology and biology, was the subject of a keynote video presented at Google's TensorFlow Development Summit 2018, held March 30 in Mountain View, California.

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$2.5M grant funds real-time monitoring of underground carbon sequestration | Penn State University

$2.5M grant funds real-time monitoring of underground carbon sequestration

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Researchers from Penn State, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Texas at Austin are partnering on a new $2.5-million project to illuminate what happens to carbon dioxide during underground sequestration. The team will use seismic data collected through a novel real-time monitoring system to track the spread of carbon dioxide underground. The four-year project is being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Interdisciplinary projects awarded seed grants from IEE | Penn State University

Interdisciplinary projects awarded seed grants from IEE

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The 2017–18 Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) seed grant recipients have recently been awarded to 16 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State. This year nearly $350,000 have been awarded to more than 40 researchers in five colleges at University Park as well as at four campuses.

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Presence, persistence of estrogens in vernal pools an emerging concern | Penn State University

Presence, persistence of estrogens in vernal pools an emerging concern

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Estrogens in treated wastewater that find their way into temporary wetlands known as vernal pools persist for weeks or even months, according to researchers, who suggest that persistence may have implications for these critical aquatic habitats.

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Data driven dialogue: Scientists bring groups together on water quality concerns | Penn State University

Data driven dialogue: Scientists bring groups together on water quality concerns

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Shale Network, a team of scientists studying water quality around Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania, has spent the last six years fostering a dialogue between concerned citizens, watershed groups, government regulators and representatives from large energy companies around water quality data in the state.

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New desalination method offers low-energy alternative to purify salty water

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Providing safer drinking water to those in need may be a little easier. According to Penn State researchers, a new desalination technique is able to remove salt from water using less energy than previous methods.

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Partnership celebrates global synergy, accomplishments at joint energy workshop | Penn State University

Partnership celebrates global synergy, accomplishments at joint energy workshop

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Members of the Penn State – Dalian Joint Center for Energy Research (JCER), a partnership between Penn State and Dalian University of Technology (DUT), one of the top research universities in China in energy and chemical engineering, met on campus recently to discuss ongoing research and collaboration initiatives and progress made in advancing clean energy research.

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Public Health Researcher Issues Dire Warning About Ethane Cracker - The Allegheny Front

Public health researcher issues dire warning about ethane cracker

| alleghenyfront.org

The ethane cracker will bring 600 permanent jobs, but a researcher warns of impacts to air quality and health of residents nearby the future facility.

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