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Faculty EarthTalks: Brune to discuss ozone story as model for addressing climate crisis 02/03/2022 William Brune, distinguished professor of meteorology at Penn State, will discuss the lessons learned from the ozone crisis and how similar strategies might be applied to address the climate crisis during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 7. |
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Alumni Lifelong love inspires $250,000 gift to create aviary at Shaver’s Creek 02/02/2022 Cyrus Klingsberg says he is serious about birds. At 97 years old, he is as determined as ever to visit Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, and he wants to make sure others do as well. |
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Faculty Microwave data assimilation improves forecasts of hurricane intensity, rainfall 02/01/2022 A new technique using readily available data reduces forecast errors and could improve track, intensity and rainfall forecasts for future storms like Hurricane Harvey, according to Penn State scientists. |
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Faculty Sanjay Srinivasan named distinguished member by Society of Petroleum Engineers 02/01/2022 Sanjay Srinivasan, department head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, has been honored as a distinguished member by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). |
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Faculty Dope Labs podcast creators to host science communication workshops at Penn State 02/01/2022 Dope Labs Science Communication Week at Penn State aims to introduce researchers to the broader science communication community and teach them to use social media, storytelling and a web presence to network with other scientists and engage with broad audiences. |
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Faculty Easterling brought holistic approach to pressing science problems at NSF 02/01/2022 Geographer and climate scientist William Easterling recently returned from a four-year position with the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he saw from a different perspective the complex and intertwining issues that have encompassed his decades-long career. |
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Faculty Increased storminess may give rise to North Atlantic’s ‘cold blob’ 01/31/2022 While climate change is making much of the world warmer, temperatures in a subpolar region of the North Atlantic are getting cooler. A team of researchers report that changes in the wind pattern, among other factors, may be contributing to this "cold blob." |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Tom Richard to discuss the path to a carbon-negative bioeconomy 01/27/2022 Tom Richard, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, will discuss how agriculture, food and forest systems can support a bioeconomy that reverses climate change during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 31. |
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Faculty Feb. 4 Coffee Hour: How to increase the public value of scientific research 01/24/2022 Arthur Lupia, the Gerald R Ford Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, will discuss how to develop more effective communication strategies to reach and engage the public at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4. |
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Faculty Graduate student selected for prestigious U.S. Department of Energy program 01/21/2022 Penn State graduate student Ryan Fair is currently participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. |