The 15th annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium will be held March 30-31 on Penn State's University Park campus. The symposium brings together students from various departments to present research addressing environmental understanding and concerns. The deadline for abstract submissions is Feb. 24. For more information, or to submit an ...

Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change, because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers who compared tree-ring temperature reconstructions with model simulations of past temperature ...

Michael Mann and David Pollard, both scientists in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, have been elected as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union for exceptional contributions in original research in climate change....

The Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center is preparing to welcome the ninth inductee into the National Meteorologist Hall of Fame, Fred Gadomsky, the host and co-producer of "Weather World," a 15-minute nightly weather magazine program produced by the Penn State Weather Communications Group.  <<MORE>>

On January 23, 2012, a group of 35 researchers from institutions all along the eastern seaboard gathered at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science last week to further integrate and refine field measurements and computer models of carbon cycling in the waters along the U.S. East Coast.  <<MORE>>

To be elected a Fellow of AGU is a special tribute for those who have made exceptional scientific contributions. Nominated Fellows must have attained acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences. This designation is conferred upon not more than 0.1% of all AGU members in any given year. New Fellows are chosen by a Committee of Fellows.   Congratulations Dr. Mann!

When Penn State's Millennium Science Complex opened its doors to researchers this fall, it inaugurated a new era of scientific discovery at the intersection of materials science, engineering, nanoscience and the life sciences at Penn State. The 297,000-square-foot research building is the culmination of 10 years of planning and more than three ...

Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Designing the approach to control both sea level rise and rates of surface air temperature changes requires a balancing act to accommodate the diverging ...

Dr. Jose Fuentes, professor of meteorology, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Council. The Council is the principal governing body of the AMS.

The Earth and Mineral Sciences Library Spring Film Series kicks off on Jan. 18 with "Welcome to the Nanoworld," a documentary exploring the emergence of nanotechnology. All films are shown at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesdays, in Room 105 of the Deike Building on the University Park campus of Penn State, and admission is free. The full schedule is listed ...

Classroom dynamo Richard Alley will visit the School of International Affairs to speak on climate change on Jan. 19. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and an expert in polar ice....

An international reporting class in the College of Communications will allow student journalists to focus on, and travel to, Brazil during the spring semester. "Brazil is an emerging economic giant. It's the largest country by population and land mass in Latin America, and a major competitor to the United States in several commodity exports, ...

This time of year the North Pole is wrapping things up. But in the southern hemisphere, at the WAIS Divide site in West Antarctica, Penn Staters are playing key roles in a major effort funded by the US National Science Foundation to study the history and flow of the great ice sheet. ...

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Alisha Fernandez, a doctoral candidate in energy and mineral engineering and National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellow, was awarded the Dennis J O'Brien United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE) Best Student Paper Award for her paper "Evaluating ecosystem and wind-following services for hydroelectric dams in PJM." The paper ...

Penn State authors Long-Qing Chen, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Benjamin Winchester and Jason Britson, both graduate students in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering publish an article titled "Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO3"  in the latest Nature Physics issue.  To read this article, click here.

The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project. The Fennoscandia Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR DEEP) took place during the summer of ...

November 2011 - Gender, Justice and Social Learning:  Exploring Theory and Practice in Adaptation - Organized by The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Environmental Monitoring Group Trust (EMG) and Rhodes University (RU)
Participants discussed the challenges facing marginalized communities threatened by changing weather patterns, such as:  lack of technical expertise; population growth and migration patterns; community consumption levels; and the unsustainable use of child labor to buffer against natural disasters.  << MORE >>

Two Penn State-affiliated geographers won CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) program. They are faculty member Brian King, assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Penn State, and alumna Corene J. Matyas (who earned a doctoral degree from Penn State in 2005), assistant ...

Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences at Penn State, has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" for 2011....