Faculty Penn State's 'Living Filter' to be the focus of wastewater reuse conference 03/28/2022 More than a half-century of research on the use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge will be the focus of a three-day conference hosted by Penn State April 5-7 at the Wyndham Garden hotel in Boalsburg. |
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Graduate Student Geosciences doctoral student receives Outstanding Student Presentation Award 03/25/2022 Judit Gonzalez-Santana, a doctoral student in geosciences, was awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for her talk "Contrasting flank instability behaviors and volcanic activity styles at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala." |
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Faculty Coffee Hour to examine green infrastructure solutions for water management 03/25/2022 Lauren McPhillips, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Penn State, will provide insights into the effectiveness of green infrastructure solutions in New York and Pennsylvania during a talk at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 1. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Columbia’s Sobel to discuss the responsibility of climate scientists 03/23/2022 Adam Sobel, professor of applied physics and applied mathematics, and of Earth and environmental science at Columbia University, will discuss the responsibility of climate scientists during EarthTalks at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 28. |
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Faculty Reevaluation puts mid-Phanerozoic oxygen levels higher than previously reported 03/23/2022 Oxygen levels in the atmosphere during the mid-Proterozoic -- about 1.4 billion years ago -- were higher than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers who looked at oxygen combined with sulfur to determine that previous numbers were probably lower limits, not maximums. |
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Faculty Miller Lecture: Stephanie Pincetl to discuss ‘just transitions’ to green energy 03/21/2022 Stephanie Pincetl, professor and founding director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, will discuss just transitions to renewable energy sources at the annual E. Willard Miller Endowed Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, March 25. |
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Faculty Cornell professor to present 'Social Costs of Nutrient Pollution in the U.S.' 03/18/2022 Catherine Kling, Tisch University Professor and director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, will present a new model of nutrient pollution assessment that considers its social costs and could reshape the way the U.S. handles water quality issues. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Neely to discuss carbon trading and taxation 03/16/2022 Sylvia Neely, co-leader of State College's chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby, will discuss options for pricing carbon, why a carbon fee and dividend policy would be effective, and the political and foreign policy implications in a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 21. |
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Faculty Novel theory of entropy may solve materials design issues 03/16/2022 A challenge in materials design is that in both natural and manmade materials, volume sometimes decreases, or increases, with increasing temperature. |
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Faculty From museum to laptop: Visual leaf library a new tool for identifying plants 03/15/2022 A large, open-access visual leaf library developed by a Penn State-led team provides a new resource to help scientists recognize and classify leaves. |