Lara Fowler, professor of teaching with Penn State Dickinson Law, will give the talk “Multisolving the deluge: building community-led solutions to flooding challenges” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 19, in 112 Walker Building at Penn State University Park. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Mirna Kassem, postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and incoming assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, will give the talk “Regional-scale coupled hydrological and hillslope stability modeling of rainfall-induced landslides” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building at Penn State University Park. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Historically, wildfire research has focused on the western United States. However, changing climate conditions, increasing drought severity and dense development patterns are rapidly altering wildfire risk across the Eastern United States. Penn State hosted the Eastern Wildfire Forum in September to address the growing challenge of wildfire in the commonwealth and across the Eastern United States.

Luyi Han, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at Penn State, will give the talk “Local food prices, SNAP purchasing power, and food insecurity,” at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Renee Obringer, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State, will give the talk “Understanding climate change impacts on renewable energy: Insights from explainable AI” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Zhifeng Gao, professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida, will give the talk “How availability and accessibility shape online grocery choices: evidence from hypothetical and real choice experiments,” at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 30, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Roberto Fernández, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, will give the talk “Living with Water” at 2 p.m. on Sept. 25, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Shotaro Nakamura, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at Penn State, will give the talk “Monetary and non-monetary barriers to accessing environmental public benefit programs: experimental evidence from California,” at noon on Friday, Sept. 25, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Kaleigh Yost, assistant professor of geotechnical engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, will give the talk “Improving liquefaction modeling for partially saturated soils under fluctuating groundwater conditions” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept.18, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building at University Park. The talk will able be available via Zoom.

Jeremy Weber, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Pittsburgh, will give the talk “Can environmental restoration help revitalize communities? Evidence from treating abandoned mine drainage in Pennsylvania” at noon on Friday, Sept. 18, in 157 Hosler Building at Penn State University Park.