A listing of news, highlights, and accomplishments of EESI associates, affiliates, and staff.
2016 News, Highlights, and Accomplishments
- Dean of EMS tapped for NSF post - December 2016
- Big data approach to water quality applied at shale drilling sites - December 2016
- Climate cycles may explain how running water carved Mars' surface features - December 2016
- Human actions influence fire regimes in the Sierra Nevadas - November 2016
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments consortium formed - November 2016
- California forest fires might be influenced by human activity - November 2016
- Easterling honored with top USDA award for global food security report - November 2016
- Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event - November 2016
- CAUSE and Effect - October 2016
- Geosciences master's student wins Marie Morisawa Award from geological society - October 2016
- Leaf study brings boom to CZO - October 2016
- New research on ancient Alpine rocks may unveil clues to Earth's evolution - October 2016
- Penn State Association of Women Geoscientists receives excellence award - October 2016
- Back to basics: EMS dean talks about why fundamental scientific research matters - October 2016
- Researchers receive NSF grant to study how household decisions impact climate - October 2016
- Why has climate change been ignored in the US election debates? - October 2016
- Susan Brantley receives top geochemistry award from American Chemical Society - October 2016
- Heard on Campus: Rush Holt, retired lawmaker and AAAS leader - October 2016
- Penn State, Rutgers win grant to create Virtual Data Collaboratory - October 2016
- Website tracks seismic activity in Pennsylvania - October 2016
- Baker Hughes makes $1.9 million software gift to Earth and Mineral Sciences - October 2016
- Russo named Slingerland Early Career Professor in geosciences - October 2016
- University leaders attend renovated Steidle Building dedication ceremony - October 2016
- On the hunt for information about wetlands, retreating glaciers, climate change - October 2016
- Climate change impacts on Menominee nation's forest home focus of NSF funding - October 2016
- Conference takes aim at state's orphan well problem - October 2016
- Upcoming discussion on science and politics - October 2016
- Retired congressman, AAAS CEO Holt to lead panel on science and politics - October 2016
- Alley receives 2016 Climate Communications Prize from American Geophysical Union - September 2016
- CZO hosts Summer Scholars - September 2016
- Nyblade appointed co-director of Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research - September 2016
- SCRiM hosts Summer Scholars - September 2016
- No ordinary classroom - September 2016
- Mathews named a 2016 Fellow of the American Chemical Society - September 2016
- How land use affects the spread of disease - September 2016
- EMS Upward Bound Math and Science team wins more than just first place - August 2016
- St. Paul Island mammoths most accurately dated 'prehistoric' extinction ever - August 2016
- Global climate models do not easily downscale for regional predictions - August 2016
- Climate Change May Affect The Habitability of Other Planets - July 2016
- 'The most singular of all the things that we have found': Clouds study alarms scientists - July 2016
- Airborne research on flow of greenhouse gas takes off - July 2016
- NASA Flights to Track Greenhouse Gases Across Eastern US - July 2016
- Facebook Live event to feature climate scientist Michael Mann on July 15 - July 2016
- Richardson named EMS associate dean for education - June 2016
- New website explores impacts of Marcellus gas development - June 2016
- Distinguished professor wins top award from Geological Society - June 2016
- SCASD students tap into water at Black Moshannon - May 2016
- We can't afford to wait - May 2016
- 99 percent chance 2016 will be the hottest year on record - May 2016
- Penn State partners with Commonwealth to build seismic monitoring network - May 2016
- Symposium to focus on big data related to weather, climate and Earth systems - May 2016
- Dean emeritus Hosler recounts his 75 years at Penn State at EMS awards banquet - May 2016
- Probing Questions: How can coastal cities prepare for increasing storm surge? - May 2016
- EMS Museum exhibit explores ocean acidification's impact on microscopic sea life - May 2016
- NASA taps Penn State geoscientist to join ancient Mars habitability project - May 2016
- Three faculty members named Evan Pugh University Professors - April 2016
- Professor Richard Alley to present Earth Week lecture on climate and energy - April 2016
- Into the belly of a glacier - April 2016
- 'Landscape trap': Severe fires turning forest to shrubland in California - April 2016
- The Wall Street Journal, Climate Change Denial, and the Galileo Gambit - March 2016
- Sea-level rise from Antarctic ice sheet could double - March 2016
- In search of compromise among climate risk management strategies - March 2016
- EMS graduate students earn top marks at 31st annual Graduate Exhibition - March 2016
- The role of science in public discourse: An interview with Michael Mann (Part II) - March 2016
- The role of science in public discourse: An interview with Michael Mann (Part I) - March 2016
- Leaf mysteries revealed through the computer's eye - March 2016
- Eight Penn State faculty members receive Fulbright grants - March 2016 (Penn State removed link)
- Hurricane season is never over for Penn State meteorology professor - February 2016
- Graduate student brings water warning to remote Papua New Guinea - February 2016
- Deluge: Climate change, sea level, and the growing threat of coastal floods - February 2016
- Carbon dioxide stored underground can find multiple ways to escape - February 2016
- NSF RAPID funding awarded to study erupting Momotombo volcano - January 2016
- Kasting receives NAS Early Earth & Life Sciences Award - January 2016
- EMS undergrads research energy, explore regions of Europe through science course - January 2016
- Odds are overwhelming that record heat due to climate change - January 2016
- Storms, ozone may play pivotal role in rainforest cloud creation - January 2016
- Scientists: Ocean warming has doubled in recent decades - January 2016
- Rapid version of assessment tool provides easier way to monitor wetland quality - January 2016
- Who Cares about Soil Composition? Soil Scientist Douglas Miller for One - January 2016
- Mapping internships teach geography student importance of field work - January 2016
- Jenni Evans - Interim Director of the Penn State Institute for Cyberscience (ICS) - January 2016