Geography News
Fourth-year environmental systems engineering major Sofia Hoffman spent a month in Ecuador’s Amazon Basin researching contamination linked to off-the-grid oil extraction as part of Assistant Professor of Geography Belén Noroña’s research in the Yasuní National Park.
Shannon Speed, Paula Gunn Allen Chair and professor of American Indian studies, gender studies and anthropology at UCLA, will deliver the Penn State Department of Geography’s annual E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Endowed Lecture at noon on Friday, March 27.
researchers in the Department of Geography studied how the Northern California landscape responded to extreme wildfire, and study how prior fires influenced chances of forest recovery.
Ann Ehrlich is currently pursuing an Integrated Undergraduate-Graduate (IUG) degree and will graduate from Penn State with her bachelor's degree in geography, a master's degree in spatial data science and a graduate certificate in remote sensing and Earth observation.
Gregory Jenkins, professor of meteorology and atmospheric sciences, will give the talks "West Africa poised for late 21st century climate injustice: Modeling increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) and changes in Saharan mineral dust."
Penn State’s Department of Geography is launching a new major in sustainability, society and environmental geography.
Four doctoral graduate students in Penn State’s Department of Geography will deliver research talks as part of the department’s Graduate Student Coffee Hour series.
he Penn State Department of Geography will host Pavithra Vasudevan for a talk titled “Rewriting Capitalism’s Horror Story” at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.
Fifteen faculty members have joined IEE. Together, they bring expertise that connects energy systems, environmental processes and human dimensions, opening new pathways for collaboration and shared research efforts.
Ida Djenontin is part of a team awarded a $1.6 million grant to explore how building design, infrastructure and development decisions can help reduce malaria risk worldwide.