A Bald Eagle Area High School physics class used a supercomputer cluster to explore the world as real climate scientists. The class presented a poster session detailing some of their findings in their investigation of global radiation using computer equipment donated by Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience.
Climate science is a field devoted to the study of Earth’s climate in the past, present and future. Understanding the Earth’s future climate is vital, and in response Penn State has established a new dual-title doctoral program in climate science.
Richard Alley, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, has won the 2017 Wollaston Medal, the top prize given by the Geological Society of London, for his work focusing on the flow and stability of ice sheets and how they interact with the landscape.
Chasing storms and satellites with a plane — that’s what Penn State researcher Ken Davis and his NASA-funded research team will spend part of their summer doing. The team, which is scheduled to start its first research flight next week, will be taking a new approach to studying how weather transports greenhouse gases across different regions of the U.S.
Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences Richard Alley and his family recently donated $100,000 to Penn State to create a new graduate scholarship. The Alley Family Graduate Scholarship in the Department of Geosciences will support future graduate students studying glaciology or climate science.
