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Penn State to host conference focused on geomodeling, food, energy, water nexus

1/4/19

The deadline for interested authors to submit abstracts to the 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences has been extended. Short abstracts will now be due on Friday, Feb. 1. The conference, to be held Aug. 10-16 at University Park, will include such topics as geomathematics, geostatistics, geoinformatics and geomodeling, with a special focus on geomodeling issues at the intersection of food, water and energy.

Penn State to host conference focused on geomodeling food, energy, water nexus

10/24/18

For the first time in 10 years, the Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) will be hosted in the United States. Penn State will host the 20th annual conference Aug. 10-16, 2019, on the University Park campus. The conference will include such topics as geomathematics, geostatistics, geoinformatics and geomodeling, with a special focus on geomodeling issues at the intersection of food, water and energy.

Seismic network

Website tracks seismic activity in Pennsylvania

10/17/16

A new website lets people track earthquakes and other seismic activity that happens across Pennsylvania. The website is part of The Pennsylvania State Seismic Network, a collaboration between Penn State and the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

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Tibetan Plateau may be older than previously thought

8/16/12

The growth of high topography on the Tibetan Plateau in Sichuan, China, began much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of geologists who looked at mountain ranges along the eastern edge of the plateau.

The Indian tectonic plate began its collision with Asia between 55 and 50 million years ago, but "significant topographic relief existed adjacent to the Sichuan Basin prior to the Indo-Asian collision," the researchers report online in Nature Geoscience.

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Lunar Lion team to appear at Arts Fest Children's Day

7/2/12

The Penn State Lunar Lion team will be on hand during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts' Children and Youth Day to talk about their effort to land a vehicle on the moon. Team members will appear at Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania at 112 W. Foster Ave. in State College from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11.

Penn State scientists elected to American Geophysical Union

2/1/12

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.

Carbon release to atmosphere 10 times faster than in the past

6/6/11

The rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere today is nearly 10 times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.9 million years ago, the best analog we have for current global warming, according to an international team of geologists. Rate matters and this current rapid change may not allow sufficient time for the biological environment to adjust.

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Tiny shelled creatures shed light on extinction and recovery

3/1/10

An asteroid strike may not only account for the demise of ocean and land life 65 million years ago, but the fireball's path and resulting dust, darkness and toxic metal contamination may explain the geographic unevenness of extinctions and recovery, according to Penn State geoscientists.

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Solomon Islands earthquake sheds light on enhanced tsunami risk

4/9/09

The 2007 Solomon Island earthquake may point to previously unknown increased earthquake and tsunami risks because of the unusual tectonic plate geography and the sudden change in direction of the earthquake, according to geoscientists. On April 1, 2007, a tsunami-generating earthquake of magnitude 8.1 occurred East of Papua New Guinea off the coast of the Solomon Islands. The subsequent tsunami killed about 52 people, destroyed much property and was larger than expected.