Seminar Listings: February 24 - 28, 2020
Friday, February 28
Geochemistry Forum: Discovering the impacts of sulfide oxidation on the CO2 weathering sink
Andrew Shaughnessy, doctoral student, Geosciences, Penn State
341 Deike Building @ 03:30 PM
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Department of Geography Coffee Hour: Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement crush the American Rust Belt
Jason Hackworth, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
304 and 112 Walker Building @ 03:30 PM
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Seminar Listings: March 02 - 06, 2020
Monday, March 2
EarthTalks Seminar: Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions: U.S. methane emissions: What do we know? What can be done?
Dr. Ken Davis, Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Penn State
112 Walker Building @ 04:00 PM
The spring 2020 EarthTalks series is supported by the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute.
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Tuesday, March 3
Water Insights Seminar: Exurban to urban: a possible lens to better understand city trees
Delphis Levia, Professor of Echhydrology, Chair; Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences with Joint Appointment in Plant & Soil Sciences, Univeristy of Delaware
312 Ag Engineering Building @ 12:00 PM
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Geosciences Colloquium: Hydrology, weathering, and landscape evolution: can understanding the past help us better predict drought resilience in the future?
Ciaran Harman, Assoc. Professor of Landscape Hydrology, Russell Croft Faculty Scholar, Dept. of Environmental Health & Engineering, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, John Hopkins University
022 Deike Building @ 04:00 PM
A Coffee and Cookies speaker reception precedes the presentation at 3:45 PM in the EMS Museum.
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Wednesday, March 4
Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar (EEEP): Effects of Changing Land Tenure Policies on Agro-pastoralism and Food Security in Northwest Cameroon
Richard Mbih, Ph.D., Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies, Penn State
312 Agricultural Engineering Building @ 12:00 PM
A light lunch will be served.
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The Climate Dynamics Brown-Bag seminar: North Atlantic cold blob forced by increased storms
Laifang Li, Assistant professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State
529 Walker Building @ 11:15 AM
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Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Colloquium: Physics-based, Data-driven Modeling of Air Quality Impact from Stationary and Mobile Sources at 1-Meter Resolution
Bo Yang, Postdoctoral researcher, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
John Cahir Auditorium 112 Walker Building @ 03:30 PM
Refreshments will be served after the colloquium in the Joel N. Myers Weather Center.
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Thursday, March 5
Energy for the Future Seminar: Polymer Membranes for Large-Scale Energy Conversion and Storage
Mike Hickner, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Penn State
157 Hosler Building @ 04:00 PM
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Friday, March 6
Geochemistry Forum: Architecture of the deep Critical Zone at Shale Hills: From geochemistry to geophysics
Dr. Xin Gu, postdoctoral researcher, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State
341 Deike Building @ 03:30 PM
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