You are invited to attend any or all of our weekly series of presentations. We begin
gathering after 3:30 p.m. almost every Friday for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies in 319 Walker Building, then settle down
to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre
County community are welcome.
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August 29
Dr. Richard Alley
Department of Geosciences, Penn State
"The Senate, the IPCC, and the Streets of London: Some Adventures in Climate Change"
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September 5
Dr. Stefan Little
Paleobotany Lab, Department of Geosciences, Penn State
"Paleobotany: Reconstructing Ancient Biogeography, Climate and Change" |
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September 12
Dr. Adam Rome
Department of History, Penn State
"Earth Day 1970 and the Making of the First Green Generation" |
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September 19
Dydia DeLyser
Department of Geography, Louisiana State University
"Feminisms and Mobilities: Crusading for Aviation in the 1920s"
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September 26
Alan Krupnick
Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
"The value of life: Priceless; The value of life extension: Not; An application to China"
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October 3
David Mark
Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
"Cultural and Linguistic Variation in the Conceptualization of Landscape: Navajo, Yindjibarndi and English"
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October 10
David Gilbertson
University of Plymouth and University of Wales, United Kingdom
"From Pristine to Poisonous at Phaino: The Early Interaction of World Systems and Earth Systems"
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October 17
Tim Dolney
Assistant professor of Geography, Penn State Altoona
"GIS for environmental impact assessment: a case study of urban sprawl and abandoned coal mines"
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October 24
Stephanie Hulina
President, GDA Corp., State College
"Operational Remote Sensing product delivery: Can it be done?"
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October 31
Wilbur Zelinsky,
Peirce Lewis
Department of Geography, Penn State
40th anniversary celebration of Coffee Hour
"The Importance of Coffee Hour"
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November 7
Cindi Katz
Environmental Psychology and Women's Studies, Graduate Center of the University of New York
"Childhood as Spectacle" |
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November 14
David Pollard
Earth and Environmental Systems Instititue, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State
"Modeling Past Growth and the Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet"
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November 21
Marcy Allen
Head, Maps Library, University Libraries
"Map Libraries: How do we get There from Here?"
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December 5
Jenni Evans
Department of Meteorology, Penn State
"Tropical cyclone sensitivity to climate change"
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December 12
Tom Tuffey
Penn Future
"Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Future"
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