A listing of news, highlights, and accomplishments of EESI associates, affiliates, and staff.
2017 News, Highlights, and Accomplishments
- Penn State convenes leaders to discuss methane emissions regulation - December 2017
- Penn State geographers go to New Orleans for American Geophysical Union meeting - December 2017
- Jenni Evans elected president of the American Meteorological Society - December 2017
- Controlled burns limited severity of Rim Fire - December 2017
- Penn State names Schlumberger 2017 Corporate Partner of the Year - November 2017
- Some like it cold - November 2017
- Snapshot Day brings Pennsylvania water quality into focus - November 2017
- Webinar will examine estimating the number of abandoned oil and gas wells - November 2017
- Guido Cervone joins EESI as an associate - November 2017
- Field conference helps write the book on Pennsylvania geology - October 2017
- Sea-level rise, not stronger storm surge, will cause future NYC flooding - October 2017
- Climate change and extreme weather challenge communities to be resilient - October 2017
- Baka awarded fellowship to study impact of petrochemical plant on community - September 2017
- Mann to receive James H. Shea Award for climate science writing - September 2017
- Researchers take tips from 'Twister' to chase elusive storm data - September 2017
- Brooks elected Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists - September 2017
- Research symposium honoring three EMS emeritus professors slated for Sept. 11 - September 2017
- Free Sustainability Showcases scheduled for Fridays throughout the fall semester - August 2017
- Course introduces students to critical zone science - August 2017
- NASA Space Grant project livestreams eclipse from near-space - August 2017
- Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant recipients announced - August 2017
- For EMS students, Denver trip offers glimpse of life during, after dinosaurs - August 2017
- Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories to launch EESLGreen program - August 2017
- Researchers receive USDA grant to study new riparian buffer strategy - July 2017
- Allowable 'carbon budget' most likely overestimated - July 2017
- Parizek receives Faculty Scholar Award - June 2017
- Mann receives Schneider award for outstanding climate science communication - June 2017
- EMS Graduate Poster Competition showcases outstanding research across college - June 2017
- Penn State graduate student selected for NASA astronaut program - June 2017
- Gift to Penn State will support ongoing research in food safety, energy - May 2017
- Penn State faculty member named College of Earth and Mineral Sciences dean - May 2017
- Sixteen EMS students recognized for scholarship, global experience and service - May 2017
- Sustainable Climate Risk Management Summer School marks fifth year - May 2017
- Integrative approach needed to protect crop biodiversity, researcher says - May 2017
- Generosity, ingenuity characterized geoscientist's 40-year career - May 2017
- Penn Staters' voices heard at science march in Washington, D.C. - May 2017
- Integrative approach needed to protect crop biodiversity, researcher says - May 2017
- Graham and interdisciplinary team awarded PNAS Cozzarelli Prize - May 2017
- Outstanding faculty and students honored at annual College of EMS awards banquet - May 2017
- Recent Penn State graduates earn wings in airborne research project - May 2017
- 'WE ARE for Science' advocates for science policy, communications and diversity - April 2017
- Robert Crane named associate vice provost for Global Programs - April 2017
- Premiere of 'Managing Risk in a Changing Climate' panel talk set for April 18 - April 2017
- Nyblade recognized with 2017 President's Award for academic integration - April 2017
- Speaker to present 'Sustaining Global Energy Development' in EarthTalks series - March 2017
- Easterling receives national 'Giving Back Award' for promoting diversity - March 2017
- Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream - March 2017
- Women in Science Profiles: Erica Smithwick - March 2017
- Alley wins prestigious award from Geological Society - March 2017
- March 2 webinar planned to share communication tools with faculty researchers - February 2017
- National Science Foundation funds supercomputer cluster at Penn State - February 2017
- Penn State to offer MOOCs on FutureLearn online learning platform - February 2017
- Living Filter Corn Irrigation - February 2017
- Campus natural gas power plants pose no radon risks - February 2017
- Deep groundwater aquifers respond rapidly to climate variability - February 2017
- 2017 EESI Call for Center Proposals - February 2017
- Climate dynamics professor co-authors report assessing cost of climate change - February 2017
- Big Ten's Geospatial Data Portal connecting access to GIS, historical map data - January 2017
- Graduate student using NSF fellowship to enhance science outreach - January 2017
- Earthquakes in Pennsylvania - January 2017
- Jenni Evans named director of Institute for CyberScience - January 2017
- Climate change effects, solutions to be discussed on WPSU's 'Conversations LIVE' - January 2017
- EESI hosting new collaboration between University and DOE - January 2017
- The effects of melting glaciers on tropical communities - January 2017
- Free public science minicourse starts on Jan. 21 - January 2017
- Sukyoung Lee named Ryan Faculty Fellow in College of EMS - January 2017
- Project to develop computational tools for coupled human-natural systems - January 2017
- South American fossil tomatillos show nightshades evolved earlier than thought - January 2017