A listing of news, highlights, and accomplishments of EESI associates, affiliates, and staff.
2014 News, Highlights, and Accomplishments
- Road test for methane - Getting a handle on emissions from fracking - December 2014
- Video: Lisa Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Initiatives at Apple, addresses Penn State at 2014 Colloquium on the Environment - December 2014
- 'From the Front Line: Climate Change Conversations' to be held Dec. 12 - December 2014
- Penn State receives NSF Critical Zone Collaboration Grant - December 2014
- EESI talk highlights opportunities for National Institute of Health funding - December 2014
- You are invited to attend the Penn State AGU Reception 12/18/14 - November 2014
- Mann honored with 2014 Pongo Environmental Award - November 2014
- Air pollution and the ocean - October 2014
- Climate scientist Michael E. Mann will be one of the recipients of the Pongo Award - October 2014
- Too Much of a Good Thing: Carbon Dioxide, Building Block of Life, Best in Moderation - October 2014
- Interdisciplinary team aims to predict the future of Antarctic ice - October 2014
- Atlantic Ocean key to global-warming pause - August 2014
- Global warming responsible for 70 percent of recent glacier loss, study finds - August 2014
- Antarctica could raise sea level faster than previously thought - August 2014
- Juneau in July - August 2014
- Hands-On Summer Research - August 2014
- State College Teachers Join Water Quality Testing Effort - August 2014
- Leaf Mining Insect Fossils Found in Mexican Hat, MT - July 2014
- NASA funds study of changing climate, land use on Chesapeake and Delaware Bays - July 2014
- Robert Crane looks at fine-scale climate model projections predicting malaria at local levels - July 2014
- Podcast Interview with Peter Wilf on People Behind the Science: A Paleobotanist Who Leaves No Stone Unturned Searching for Plant Fossils - July 2014
- Eric and Molly Barron create EMS Trustee Scholarships, benefit Arboretum - June 2014
- Alley Part of 50th Anniversary Celebration of Presidential Scholars in Washington - June 2014
- A MOOC for Planet Earth - May 2014
- The Big Melt Accelerates - May 2014
- Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt - May 2014
- Shale Network workshop brings together experts, volunteers - May 2014
- Hundreds Attend Second Annual Polar Day - May 2014
- Out There On The Ice: An Intimate View Of The Melting Antarctic Sheet - May 2014
- Jenni Evans named acting director of PSIEE - May 2014
- High school students works with EESI to monitor water for gas drilling impacts - May 2014
- Richard Alley elected to Royal Society, the national academy of science in the United Kingdom - May 2014
- EESI professor part of research team that finds leaf chewing links insect diversity in modern and ancient forests - May 2014
- Two EMS-EESI faculty receive National Center for Science Education's new "Friend of the Planet" award - April 2014
- Richard Alley receives honorary doctorate from Albion College - April 2014
- Work by EESI faculty on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report featured in CDT's "Focus on Research" - April 2014
- Jennifer Balch part of research team that finds drought and fire lead to increase in tree mortality - April 2014
- Penn State diploma first; Mars second. Students compete for chance to simulate life on the Red Planet - April 2014
- Slowdown of global warming fleeting - April 2014
- Faculty member part of milestone Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report - April 2014
- Panel talk on ocean acidification part of environment reporter's visit to Penn State - March 2014
- 17th Annual Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium, March 28 and 29 in the Forest Resources Building at Penn State - March 2014
- CDT opinion piece by Richard Alley and Michael Mann focuses on the importance of science in climate change discussion - March 2014
- Richard Alley part of AAAS effort to educate the public on climate change - March 2014
- EESI continues to evolve after start with incoming President Eric Barron - March 2014
- Seattle Times reporter part of March 17 panel discussion about ocean health - March 2014
- EESI faculty and staff featured in Penn State student news program on Eric Barron's return as university president - March 2014 (Link not available anymore)
- EESI Geographer: drought fires impact ability of nature to hold carbon dioxide - February 2014
- High school students in Teen Shale Network learn about water quality monitoring in the field - February 2014
- TUTV to air live Q&A session with International Space Station crew (the Pa Space Grant Consortium is run out of EESI at Penn State) - [WORD document] - February 2014
- CDT Article: Incoming Penn State President Eric Barron draws praise from EESI and EMS leaders - February 2014
- CDT Focus on Research: Marcellus Matters educates citizens about science - February 2014
- Marcellus Matters educates citizens about science - February 2014
- Professor designing "geoPebble" to better measure seismic waves in the Antarctic - January 2014
- Penn State Lunar Lion team on race to the moon - January 2014
- EMS course on Energy and the Environment is the latest Penn State MOOC offering - January 2014
- CDT article highlights Richard Alley receiving National Academy of Sciences award - January 2014
- Richard Alley to receive National Academy of Sciences award - January 2014
- Michael Mann urges scientists to speak on climate change: New York Times opinion piece - January 2014
- Geosciences' "Shake, Rattle & Rocks" lets fifth-graders explore ice, earth, ocean and space - January 2014
- Focus on Research: Jim Kasting discusses the habitable zone - January 2014
- EESI professor part of team that finds fossils of Australasian trees in Patagonia where they thrived 52 million years ago - January 2014
- EESI Faculty discuss cold weather and climate change in CDT opinion column - January 2014
- Space Grant turns 25, celebrates space science in higher education - January 2014
- New Penn State MOOC explores impact of energy use on climate, economy - January 2014