Energy and sustainability policy student balances education, disaster response
When the storms roll in, Alex Swithers' professors know he might be a little late on his assignments.
When the storms roll in, Alex Swithers' professors know he might be a little late on his assignments.
Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a new framework for assessing flood risk that's been developed by an interdisciplinary team from Penn State.
Understanding how Earth and its atmosphere behave in their natural settings and under the impact of human influence is the focus of a new $72 million consortium funded by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
CAUSE 2022: Applied Sustainability in Colorado (EMSC 470 Sp/Su/Fall 2022) will explore a variety of novel sustainability applications in Colorado. Topics include urban and rural food production, "zero waste" policies, permaculture, solar photovoltaics, micro-hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion, hospitality, sustainable brewing practices and more!
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society.
A two-year, $400,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Program Office will allow a Penn State-led research team to measure the rapid changes in greenhouse gas emissions that resulted from lower traffic levels during the response to COVID-19.
Sukyoung Lee, a professor of meteorology in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
In 2020, the U.S. experienced a record number of billion-dollar disaster events, with damages totaling approximately $95 billion. It was the sixth consecutive year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded at least 10 such events.