Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Golden eagles love Pennsylvania's ridge-and-valley region. The hunched-up topography, with its long linear corridors running southwest to northeast, makes a perfect thruway for their spring and fall migrations. Sustained updrafts along the ridge crests are a particular boon to these and other large raptors, who rely on lift for soaring long distances. (more)
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Development of a database that will be able to track potential impacts of Marcellus Shale activity on water quality is the focus of a new $750,000 research collaboration led by Penn State researchers.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Marcellus Shale Research Network will consolidate and routinely update water data being collected by watershed groups, government agencies, industry stakeholders and universities as a searchable database. The project also will facilitate and train additional community groups in how to organize, collect and interpret water data. (more)
Monday, November 15, 2010
A lecture series sponsored by the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment, the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, the Department of Geography, and the Center for Global Studies is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
One major threat of planetary warming is the melting of the great polar ice sheets. Particularly worrisome to researchers is the fragility of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or WAIS. David Pollard, a senior research scientist at Penn State, and Robert M. DeConto, professor of climatology at the University of Massachusetts, have created a computer model of WAIS's last 5 million years. "One of the next steps is to determine if human activity will make it warm enough to start the collapse," said Pollard. (more)
