Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Susan L. Brantley, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at Penn State and director of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences for her excellence in original scientific research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. (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)
Friday, December 10, 2010
Iron furnaces that once dotted central Pennsylvania may have left a legacy of manganese enriched soils, according to Penn State geoscientists. This manganese can be toxic to trees, especially sugar maples, and other vegetation. (more)
Monday, December 01, 2008
The Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis (CEKA) at Penn State has made visible many fundamental geochemical processes through a 3-D, interactive educational "movie," called "Slices of Time," which allows viewers to "see" examples of geochemical processes that occur at 14 different time scales from years and hours to seconds and even smaller. The National Science Foundation was so impressed with the project and its potential for communicating complex science that a special showing at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., was scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 2. (more)
