Governor's Youth Council meets in Liberty Township
| lockhaven.com
The Governor's Youth Council for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation recently met for their quarterly meeting in our area. The youth council is comprised of 20 youth from across Pennsylvania. They meet to discuss strategies to engage and educate youth across the Commonwealth in the conservation of Pennsylvania's natural resources.
Advanced Cohort of Internet2’s Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) program
| internet2.edu
Workforce development and training are one of our most significant challenges, especially as travel and onsite opportunities have been limited over the past year. In response, Internet2 is partnering with major cloud providers and research universities to develop the Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) program, an intensive online training specifically tailored for research computing professionals.
Energy Days to be held virtually on May 19 and 20
| news.psu.edu
Energy Days, an annual conference that brings together professionals working in all areas of energy, will be held virtually on May 19 and 20, 2021, and explore topics that range from energy technology to energy policy and equity.
Penn State announces 2021 University-wide faculty and staff awards
| psu.edu
Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. These awards highlight many of the faculty and staff who go above and beyond.
When calculating the social cost of methane, equity matters
| news.psu.edu
The social cost of methane — a greenhouse gas that is 30 times as potent as carbon dioxide in its ability to trap heat — varies by as much as an order of magnitude between industrialized and developing regions of the world, according to researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley and Penn State.
Five Earth and Mineral Sciences students awarded at Graduate Research Exhibition
| psu.edu
Five graduate students in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences received awards at the University's annual Graduate Research Exhibition.
Penn State among top US, international institutions in 2021 THE Impact Rankings
| news.psu.edu
Penn State ranked fourth in the U.S. and 32nd in the world out of 1115 international institutions that participated in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings, placing the university in the top 3% of universities worldwide. The impact rankings assess criteria based on the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
EESI EarthTalks panel to discuss how to avoid a global hothouse
| news.psu.edu
A panel of experts from Penn State will review solutions for minimizing global warming and discuss the pros and cons of each at a talk at 4 p.m. on April 26.
How many trees are needed to take up the carbon dioxide I release every day?
| by Bruce Logan
Breathe in, and you consume oxygen. Breathe out, and you release carbon dioxide into the air. We know that burning fuels releases carbon dioxide, and our own “fuel,” or the food we eat, is no different. We capture the energy from the food we eat and then release the carbon from that food into the environment. On average, we eat about 2,000 calories a day and release about 2 pounds of carbon dioxide a day. Plants and trees use the energy in sunlight to take up carbon dioxide through their leaves and grow more biomass.
Webinar to explore sustainability, carbon emissions of buildings
| news.psu.edu
The Global Building Network will hold a webinar on sustainable buildings, titled “Operational Carbon vs. Embodied Carbon in Buildings,” from 4 to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 19. The speaker, Rahman Azari, is an associate professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture and a co-funded faculty member of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment.
Climate dynamics seminar to discuss university role in combating climate change
| news.psu.edu
Erica Smithwick, distinguished professor of geography at Penn State, will discuss a vision for a university-wide climate consortium and Penn State’s role in combating climate change during a seminar on April 21.
EarthTalks: Sir Dieter Helm to discuss carbon pricing as tool to reach net zero
| news.psu.edu
Sir Dieter Helm, professor of economic policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in economics at New College, Oxford, will discuss the need for a carbon price as a means of lowering emissions, at a talk on April 19 via Zoom.
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