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Earth and Mineral Sciences

Earth and Mineral Sciences

Repeat photographs of a wooded area from 1925, 1993, 2008 and 2013 showing how the forest grew denser and then burned in the Reading Fire in 2012

Fire operations-prescribed burning combo reduces wildfire severity up to 72%

Taylor to serve as interim director of Earth and Environmental Systems Institute

A group of professors posing for a photo

Penn State partner Monash University honors Jenni Evans with fellowship

Students receive 2021 Whiting Indigenous Knowledge Student Research Awards

Brian King

Brian King named head of the Department of Geography

Presidential Leadership Academy announces new class

2 students walking on campus wearing masks

Underground fiber optic sensors record sounds of COVID lockdown, reopening

Fossil of Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean

Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

Brandon Schwartz standing outside

Engineering professor receives rock mechanics dissertation award

Beth King

Online geospatial education faculty member receives mentoring award

Geographic visualization trailblazer Alan MacEachren to retire

Geographic visualization trailblazer Alan MacEachren to retire

Materials researcher honored with ceramics society 2021 Orton Lectureship

equation showing amount of ethane per hour times gas composition of methane over ethane per hour equals the amount of ethane. Also pictured is a well head with valves and pipes.

Ethane proxies for methane in oil and gas emissions

Nittany Lion Shrine autumn

Interdisciplinary projects awarded seed grants from IEE

Huge dark cloud with a dark funnel coming down and touching the earth

Penn State to partner with U. of Oklahoma on severe weather research institute

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