The Alcantara Space Center (ASC), located at a coastal site near the Equator, is the Brazilian gate to space. From this range, the Brazilian rockets are launched (for orbital or suborbital missions) and during their launching operations, some meteorological information is needed in order to guarantee safe flights.
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Presented by Karen Fisher-Vanden: The interactions between energy, water, and land systems are poorly understood, yet have important implications for food security, reliability of electric power supply, demographic patterns, and the resilience of communities and critical infrastructure. Doing this type of work requires working on multidisciplinary teams and coupling a variety of tools including statistical tools, data products, and computational models.
Penn State Evan Pugh Professor Richard Alley presents Geosciences Colloquium Talk “Collapsing Cliffs and Rising Seas – New Insights form Penn State’s Ice and Climate Explorations (PSICE)” on Tuesday, January 29th, at 4 PM in 022 Deike. A Speaker’s Coffee & Cookies Reception will precede the talk at 3:45 PM in the EMS Museum on the ground floor of Deike.
A part of the Water Insights Seminar series.
Karen Fisher-Vanden, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, Penn State
Learn from leading researchers about the most recent science on the environmental contributors to cancer, and patterns of disease. Join scientists, health professionals and community leaders in identifying the most promising steps for limiting environmental carcinogens in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Build relationships across organizations that have a role to play in advancing comprehensive cancer prevention via research, practice, and policy.
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Peter Hudson, Penn State
January 28, 2019 @ 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art
University Park
The institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) will be hosting a meeting with Government and Community Relations at 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28 in 233 HUB-Robeson Center. The focus of the meeting will be learning about how faculty members and researchers can engage in policy as experts. Additionally, Government and Community Relations will share about their presence at the federal, state and local levels of government. Please register here: http://www.iee.psu.edu/gov-community-relations
Nearly fifty years ago, Lovelock and Margulis proposed that environmental conditions on Earth are regulated through interactions with the biota. Where does this “Gaia Hypothesis” now stand? Do these interactions increase biospheric resilience? On geologic timescales? On human time scales? These questions will be explored with examples from my research and collaboration with Lovelock.
Lee Kump | Dean, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
A forum focused on the University’s Strategic Plan and one of its thematic priorities, Stewarding Our Planet’s Resources, will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, in Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center. The purpose of the forum is to provide updates on Stewarding Our Planet’s Resources as well as seek input on the direction and focus of the priority.
There is a growing torrent of geospatial data on ecosystems, species, and threats from a variety of remote sensing, GIS, mobile and cloud platforms. However, we need a standard framework for converting these big data into meaningful, useful and actionable information for decision-makers.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has been a leader in many areas of atmospheric science for applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to environmental science problems. The research in AI at NCAR began in the 1990’s, first from advanced applications of combined statistical methods, expert systems, and genetic algorithms to the full complexity of modern AI including machine learning and deep learning.
Sarah Ivory from Penn State Geosciences will present her talk titled “The Past and Future of Tropical Forests: Inferences on Human-Vegetation-Climate Interactions from Models and Lake Muds”
The National Council for Science and the Environment works with scientists, educators, policymakers, business leaders, and officials at all levels of government to inform environmental policy and decision-making with the use of science. NCSE programs are designed to foster leadership and education around timely and pressing issues at the intersection of science, policy, education, and decision-making. The programs also advance interdisciplinary education and develop international cooperation and engagement.
Noted atmospheric scientist Katherine Hayhoe delivers the keynote for the 2018 Penn State Colloquium on the Environment.