A listing of news, highlights, and accomplishments of EESI associates, affiliates, and staff.
2018 News, Highlights, and Accomplishments
- Penn State scientists among leaders in carbon cycle assessment - December 2018
- EMS plans to raise $10,000 for Millennium Scholars program on Giving Tuesday - November 2018
- Ground and stream water clues reveal shale drilling impacts - November 2018
- Re-Imagining Energy: Catching Carbon - Possibilities for capturing, storing, and using carbon dioxide instead of releasing it into the atmosphere - November 2018
- Re-Imagining Energy: Pulling It All Together - Combining green and traditional energy systems brings new challenges - November 2018
- Assessment of the Living, Learning, and Working Environment (ALLWE) survey - November 2018
- Penn State scientists among leaders in carbon cycle assessment - December 2018
- Penn State climate researcher looks at the causes behind weather extremes of summer 2018 - November 2018
- Controlling future summer weather extremes still within our grasp - November 2018
- Penn State to screen film that takes unique approach to science storytelling - October 2018
- Exhibition showcases 'Rocks, Minerals and the History of Art' Oct. 1-6 - October 2018
- 'The Bearded Lady Project,' documentary screening, discussion on Sept. 23 - September 2018
- Study: Earth's ecosystems face 'major transformation' from climate change - September 2018
- $490K grant funds unique Greenland glacier study - September 2018
- NSF funds $3 million graduate training program focused on Food-Energy-Water - September 2018
- Climate science symposium to honor African-American meteorology pioneer - September 2018
- Mann receives 2018 AGU Climate Communication Prize - September 2018
- Panel of climate experts to discuss climate change on Sept. 5 - August 2018
- Saving the Bay - Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences takes a lead role in cleaning up the Chesapeake - August 2018
- New dual-title doctoral degree in climate science launched - August 2018
- Undergraduates get taste for research at Penn State through NSF program - August 2018
- Faculty wins NSF CAREER Award to model structure of extreme weather events - July 2018
- Study sheds new light on forests' response to atmospheric pollution - July 2018
- Mars dust storm may lead to new weather discoveries - July 2018
- Rapidly rising bedrock may help delay Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse - July 2018
- Three new co-funds join Institutes of Energy and the Environment - July 2018
- Penn State graduate students win award in geospatial intelligence - July 2018
- 'Art of Discovery' booth to bring together art and science at Arts Fest - July 2018
- Create your own prehistoric paintings at Penn State's Arts Festival booth - June 2018
- Geosciences students again dominate at Imperial Barrel Award Competition - June 2018
- Nuclear power shutdowns won't spike power prices - June 2018
- EMS academic and alumni leaders create Open Doors Scholarships - June 2018
- Bradford Co. water quality improves; impacts rare near shale gas wells - June 2018
- Fighting for science in the era of 'fake news' - June 2018
- Kasting elected to National Academy of Sciences - May 2018
- Speaker to discuss hydrogeosciences' role in transition to green energy - May 2018
- Thwaites glacier focus of international program - May 2018
- Students see green: Mock spill illustrates potential impact of wastewater leak - April 2018
- One-fifth of carbon entering coastal waters of eastern North America is buried - April 2018
- Academic excellence, service, and leadership of EMS faculty, students celebrated - April 2018
- WE ARE for Science takes advocacy message to Washington D.C. - April 2018
- One-fifth of carbon entering coastal waters of eastern North America is buried - April 2018
- Speaker to discuss health data with respect to Marcellus Shale development May 7 - April 2018
- Conservation and diversity: Lives, languages and land in the balance - March 2018
- Fellowships help graduate student trace carbon cycling in salt marsh - March 2018
- Researchers create tool to better geographic projections in atmospheric modeling - March 2018
- Graduate student's hurricane research driven by desire to help home - March 2018
- Spring is springing earlier in polar regions than across the rest of Earth - March 2018
- Geospatial intelligence students boost careers with online program - February 2018
- Researchers team up to tackle state's acid mine drainage problem - February 2018
- Faculty, alumni honored for commitment to meteorology at annual conference - February 2018
- Free screening of award-winning documentary 'Chasing Coral' at Penn State - February 2018
- Interdisciplinary projects awarded seed grants from IEE - February 2018
- Author of 'The Fracking Debate' to speak at Penn State March 1 - February 2018
- Mann receives AAAS award for public engagement with science - February 2018
- Presence, persistence of estrogens in vernal pools an emerging concern - February 2018
- Richardson, Easterling named Fellows of the American Meteorological Society - February 2018
- Institute for CyberScience to hold data visualization workshops - February 2018
- In keynote address, Alley urges scientists to express value of their work - February 2018
- Data driven dialogue: Scientists bring groups together on water quality concerns - January 2018
- Water research, education focus of Feb. 15 town hall - January 2018
- Brantley receives career award from European Association of Geochemistry - January 2018
- Century of data shows sea-level rise shifting tides in Delaware, Chesapeake bays - January 2018
- Wilf named Paleontological Society Fellow for commitment to research, students - January 2018
- GEOlab researchers shaping future of energy, disaster forecasting - January 2018
- Power up! Penn State's new data center crunches big numbers, solves big problems - January 2018
- Picture book empowers children, families to tackle climate change - January 2018