UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ (EMS) Energy Institute recently announced the speakers for the spring 2016 Energy Exchange seminar series, a seminar series on energy science and technology. Speakers focus on highly relevant energy topics and include Penn State faculty as well as government and industry professionals.
The seminars are held from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. every other Wednesday in C213 Coal Utilization Laboratory on Penn State’s University Park campus. Seminars are free and open to the public.
The 2016 spring semester speakers include:
- Tuesday, January 19 (Note: this in the only talk held on a Tuesday)Neeraj GuptaSenior Research Leader, Energy Business Line at Battelle“Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership: Importance of Field Projects and Regional Mapping to Demonstrate Geologic Storage Potential”
- February 3Sanjay SrinivasanPenn State Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering“Sweet Spot Identification in Shale Reservoirs: Integrating Rock Physics, Seismic Inversion and Geostatistics”
- February 17Tom RichardDirector of Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment“Terrestrial Carbon Management: Tradeoffs and Synergies among Bioenergy, Biomaterials and Ecosystem Storage”
- March 2Daniel HaworthProfessor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and Director of Penn State’s Center for Combustion, Power and Propulsion“Advanced Piston Engines for Transportation Applications”
- March 23Jeffrey BrownsonPenn State Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering“Exploring the Challenges in Solar Energy”
- April 6George RichardsLeader, Energy Systems Dynamics Focus Area, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory“Advanced Energy Systems”
- April 20Jeff YanoskyAssociate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Hershey Medical Center“Biomass Combustion Emissions and Community Health”
Energy Exchange is sponsored by EMS, the EMS Energy Institute and the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment.
For more information about the Energy Exchange speaker series, visit www.energy.psu.edu/energyoutreach/energyXchange online.