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Arts Festival Annual Breakfast - RSVP
GEMS, the EMS Alumni Society, is hosting its annual Arts Festival Breakfast. Please stop by and share breakfast with fellow alumni as you reacquaint yourself with the College and visit with the Dean and his staff.
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Researchers meet at Virginia Institute of Marine Science to refine coastal ocean carbon budget
On January 23, 2012, a group of 35 researchers from institutions all along the eastern seaboard gathered at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science last week to further integrate and refine field measurements and computer models of carbon cycling in the waters along the U.S. East Coast. <<MORE>>
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Climate balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates
Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Designing the approach to control both sea level rise and rates of surface air temperature changes requires a balancing act to accommodate the diverging ...
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NSF study finds Penn State geoscientists in West Antarctica
This time of year the North Pole is wrapping things up. But in the southern hemisphere, at the WAIS Divide site in West Antarctica, Penn Staters are playing key roles in a major effort funded by the US National Science Foundation to study the history and flow of the great ice sheet. ...
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Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought
The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project.
The Fennoscandia Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR DEEP) took place during the summer of ...
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Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought
The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project....
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Engelder named one of top 100 global thinkers
Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences at Penn State, has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" for 2011....
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Meteorologists Wyngaard, Thompson receive high honors
The American Meteorological Society has honored two Penn Staterts -- John C. Wyngaard, professor emeritus of meteorology, and Anne M. Thompson, professor of meteorology -- with top awards....
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Mann to receive Hans Oeschger Medal from European Geosciences Union
Michael Mann, professor of meteorology and geosciences and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union....
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Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down
Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send more autonomous probes into outer space, but why have we never found evidence of other civilizations doing the same? A pair of postdoctoral researchers ...
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Benavides honored with Penn State Alumni Fellow Award
Raul G. Benavides, vice president for business development of the Lima, Peru-based Compania de Minas Buenaventura, a socially conscious mining company dedicated to improving the wealth and prosperity of the country and its people, was recently named a Penn State Alumni Fellow....
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Community-minded EMS students help WPSU-FM Pledge Drive
The WPSU-FM Fall Pledge Drive, that ended Oct. 22, got a little extra help from two community-minded Earth and Mineral Sciences undergraduates - Annie Tamalavage (junior, geosciences) and Zak Khayat (sophomore, materials science)....
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Geography Coffee Hour will feature Orland on Oct. 28
Professor Brian Orland from the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will speak on "Food and Fuel Security Adjacent to Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania: Student Learning and Research Outcomes" from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 28 on the University Park campus. The event will begin with a ...
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