Our graduate students are integral to the research we conduct, and they also are dedicated to making a difference in communities. Learn more about their research, outreach efforts, and other projects below.
EarthTalks to discuss 2019-20 Australian bushfire crisis
09/27/2021
09/27/2021
David Bowman, professor of pyrogeography and fire science at the University of Tasmania, will deliver a talk titled "Viewing the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire crisis through a pyrogeographic lens" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 4.
EarthTalks examines indigenous fire regimes under climate change
09/21/2021
09/21/2021
Rebecca Bliege Bird, professor of anthropology at Penn State, will deliver a talk titled "Indigenous fire regimes and their ecosystem services under climate change" at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27.
Seminar series featuring women in energy research to launch on Sept. 16
09/13/2021
09/13/2021
A new seminar series has been established by the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to celebrate women conducting energy and water research, to highlight their successes, to engage women students and to provide an opportunity for faculty to establish and expand their professional network and mentoring relationships.
EESI EarthTalks to discuss climate-human-fire interactions and feedbacks
09/13/2021
09/13/2021
David McWethy, assistant research professor at Montana State University, will discuss climate-human-fire interactions and feedbacks in temperate ecosystems during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 20.
EarthTalks to examine early evolution of fire-human relationships
09/08/2021
09/08/2021
Jessica Thompson, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University, will discuss the early evolution of fire-human relationships during a talk at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13.
Task force created to significantly reduce Penn State's carbon emissions
09/03/2021
09/03/2021
President Eric Barron has created the Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force to reconsider Penn State's greenhouse gas emissions goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 with a view toward setting a more aggressive target as well as a revised timeframe.
Call for researchers to participate in health, built environment workshop series
09/02/2021
09/02/2021
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment, through its Health and the Environment thematic area, is inviting members of the Penn State research community to participate in a series of four workshops on topics related to health and the built environment.
EESI EarthTalks seminar series to focus on 'fire in the earth system'
08/31/2021
08/31/2021
The Fall 2021 EESI EarthTalks series, "Fire in the Earth System," will address humanity's long relationship with fire, how humans and climate create conditions conducive to megafires, and how policy makers and land managers can address the fire problem.
EMS Museum will use grant to improve geology, technology, art collection storage
08/30/2021
08/30/2021
The Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Museum & Art Gallery has secured the fourth in a series of grants totaling $450,000 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, which will be used to continue the effort to securely store some of the museum's collections.
Student earns elite spot at national lab for wearable medical device research
08/20/2021
08/20/2021
Travis Peters, a doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering at Penn State, will spend a year researching wearable electronics for medical use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of an elite program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).