Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Throughout the continental 48 states, the 2011-12 winter has been oddly mild. While past winters in Pennsylvania and other hardy winter regions have delivered a few warm, sunny days each year like previews of spring, they usually have been surrounded by more seasonally appropriate temperatures, freezing and below. This year it seemed that very cold days were the minority, and most states had little snow. (more)
Hans Verlinde, professor and associate head of the meteorology graduate program, and Arthur Small, CEO of Venti Risk Management, will present "Using Statistical Decision Theory and Dynamic Programming to Improve Scientific Data Collection" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, in 102 Leonhard Building on the University Park campus of Penn state. The talk, free and open to the public, is part of the ongoing Industrial Engineering Colloquium Series. (more)
Michael Mann and David Pollard, both scientists in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, have been elected as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union for exceptional contributions in original research in climate change. (more)
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. (more)
As electricity costs continue to skyrocket, executives around the country are searching for ways to reduce energy consumption and increase sustainability. At Penn State, a University-wide team has invested in software called BigFix to enable more efficient power management of computers. The software is part of an overarching systems management initiative that could reduce Penn State's power bill by about $800,000 annually. (more)
The modern idea of Daylight Saving Time, or DST, was first proposed in
the 1890s by a New Zealand entomologist, explained Jon Nese, a senior lecturer in meteorology at Penn State. (more)
Four Penn State Beaver faculty members recently authored, co-authored, and presented research publications and papers. The four are C. Chris Wu, Talha Harcar, Kay Wijekumar, and Anthony J. Sadar. Read the full story for more information, or to contact the authors. (more)
Greg Ferro, an undergraduate meteorology major in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, has traded in a weather station for a classroom. Although he isn't graduating until May, he already has his dream job lined up. "I've always had an interest in teaching," said Ferro. "In my sophomore year, I recall taking a picture on my cell phone of a Teach for America sign on the Hub lawn and sending it to my dad with the text message, 'this is what I want to do after Penn State.'" (more)
A new international research project launched this week by climateprediction.net, the world's largest climate forecasting experiment, and the Met Office Hadley Centre (Great Britain's foremost climate change research center), aims to narrow the uncertainty of the effects of global climate change on regional and local weather events, both now and in the future. Penn State's Department of Meteorology will serve as one of the data processing centers in the United States. (more)
"It's still there," said Anne Thompson, a Penn State professor of meteorology and director of the Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry. "Despite government intervention and industry cooperation, the size of the hole has not diminished since it was discovered," she says, "but it hasn't grown either and that's key." (more)
