Shimin Liu, professor of energy and mineral engineering and the Thomas V. and Jean C. Falkie Mining Engineering Faculty Fellow at Penn State, received the Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial award from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) for the best paper published in AIME's fields.
Since 2017, Ana de la Fuente Duran has had her eyes fixed on one goal: Becoming a materials scientist.
Penn State Sustainability and Penn State’s Water Council will relaunch their "Soundings" water film series for 2023-24 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15, with an online screening of "Flood Bound," a film focused on community resilience in the face of flash flooding in the Appalachian region, followed by a post-film panel featuring Penn State faculty and emergency management experts from Vermont.
Existing fiber optic cables used for high-speed internet and telecommunications, in combination with machine learning, may be able to help scientists track ground hazards in Pittsburgh. Tieyuan Zhu is leading an NSF $937,000 grant to further develop the low-cost monitoring approach.
As the world continues to warm, Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing pace, but the loss of sea ice may lead to more snowfall over the ice sheets, partially offsetting contributions to sea level rise, according to Penn State scientists.
Microfossils from Western Australia may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists
A newly proposed landscape stewardship framework may lead to a more resilient and adaptable environment and improved quality of life for people.
The latest episode of "Growing Impact" discusses landscape restoration as a potential natural climate solution for Africa.
Janet Adomako, assistant professor of geography, and environmental studies and sciences at Bucknell University, will discuss "Complex ontologies and gendered health vulnerabilities in Ghana’s small-scale gold mining industry" at the next Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture.
The documentary film, “ESSC made EESI,” will have its premiere screening on Monday, Nov. 6. The documentary details the history of the Penn State Environmental Systems Science Institute (EESI), which began in 1986 as the Earth System Science Center (ESSC).