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Erica Smithwick: A Burning Desire to Understand the Effects of Forest Fire on the Landscape
Smithwick is interested in the effect of pattern on process. She uses fieldwork and computer modeling to determine how disturbances affect landscapes and their functions.
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Simanti Banerjee: Using Environmental Economics for Biodiversity Conservation
Banerjee is working with James Shortle, distinguished professor of agricultural and environmental economics, to develop a market-based policy instrument – essentially a government-funded auction – for biodiversity conservation.
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 Penn State to upgrade West Campus steam plantWest Campus steam plantto be upgraded as part of its ongoing plan to promote greater environmental stewardship and ensure reliable heating for campus buildings. Read more » |
 Penn State names new vice president for researchHenry C. "Hank" Foley, dean of Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, has been named the University's vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School. Read more » |
 Penn State research expenditures reach $765 millionPenn State's research expenditures in fiscal 2009 reached a record $765 million, a 6.7 percent increase over the previous year and a 74 percent increase since fiscal 2000. Read more » |
 Grant to fund exploration of fossil plants in PatagoniaDinosaurs may be the focus of much Cretaceous fossil hunting, but a Penn State researcher and his colleagues are hot on the trail of fossil plants in Patagonia, Argentina. Read more » |
 ConocoPhillips, Penn State award Energy PrizeConocoPhillips and Penn State have awarded the 2009 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize to Scott Anderson and his team for their innovation, the ECO-Auger. Read more » |
 PSIEE's FY2008-2009 Annual Report is availableSelect research activity and events from the 2008-2009 funding year are highlighted. |
 Probing Question: Will algae become a fuel source?"We'll be relying on fossil fuels for the next several decades, but algae-based fuels could be a great way to reduce our carbon footprint." Read more » |
upcoming events
- Plant Bioloogy Seminar
Xiaoying Meng, "Functional studies of S-RNAase-based self-incompatibility"
November 30: 12:10 p.m.; 101 Osmond Laboratory - Plant Pathology Seminar
Paul Backman, "Interfacing microbial ecology with development needs in Latin America"
November 30: 3:30 p.m.; 112 Buckhout Laboratory - Earth Talks: Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future
Russell Graham,"Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction"
November 30: 4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building - Geosciences Colloquium
Jeffry Park, Yale University, "Perche Apennino? Seismic Anisotropy, Subduction, Mantle Flow and Uplift in Central Italy"
December 1: 4:00 p.m.; 22 Deike Building - Distinguished Lectures in Life Science
Gail Wertz, University of Virginia, "Title TBA"
December 1: 4:00 p.m.; 100 Life Sciences Building (Berg Auditorium) - Genetics Seminar
Russ Graham, "Mammal response to global warming at the end of the Pleistocene: Implications for conservation biology"
December 1: 4:00 p.m.; 112 Walker Building - Fall 2009 ESSC Brown Bag Series
Jeffry Park, Yale University, "Smoking Guns and Dogs that Didn't Bark: Coherence and Correlation in Historical Climate Time Series"
December 2: 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.; 529 Walker Building - Bortree Lecture Series
Pinku Mukherjee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Title TBA"
December 2: 4:00 p.m.; 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building - Horticulture Seminar
Chien-Chih Chen, Ph.D. candidate, "Douglas fir micropropogation"
December 2: 4:00 p.m.; 111 Tyson Building - View all events