Song Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Penn State, will give the talk “Understanding, retrieving and predicting winter precipitation with polarimetric radar and machine learning” at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building on the University Park campus. The talk also will be available via Zoom. The event is part of a fall seminar series hosted by TRAnscendIng Natural hazards forecasting (TRAIN). The talk is free and open to the public.

Alex Hollingsworth, assistant professor at the Ohio State University, will give the talk “Decoding success: Evidence from a federal phonics initiative,” at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State’s University Park campus. The event is part of a fall seminar series hosted by the Initiative for Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEPI). The talk is free and open to the public.

Nicolas Choquette-Levy, assistant professor of climate risk and decision-making in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State, will give the talk “Haunted by hazards: Investigating the "long shadow" of natural disturbances through coupled human-biophysical responses,” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Adam Schellhammer, the Mid-Atlantic regional director for American Rivers, will give the talk “Rivers at the center of change: Building resiliency in the Mid-Atlantic” at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The talk also will be available via Zoom.

Jiameng Zheng, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Louisiana State University, will give the talk “Resilient or scarred? Mortality and morbidity after natural disasters,” at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 28, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Gabriela Gesualdo, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State, will give the talk “Beyond hazard forecasting: AI-driven insights into disaster impacts and humanitarian response,” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Five Penn State researchers affiliated with the Rock Ethics Institute will participate in an international workshop Oct. 20-22 in Freiburg, Germany, marking the beginning of a new collaboration between the institute and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg.

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.