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Our mission is to improve understanding and management of living systems, landscapes, and human-environment interactions with the objective of sustaining and enhancing ecosystem services and human-well being.

Highlights

Fall Class Offerings:
BE 497A Biomass Energy Systems

ERM 151 Careers and Issues in Environmental Resource Management

GEOG 497C Environmetnal Issues Across the Americas
2008 Access & Allocation of Water in PA available online
Doug Beegle, Leon Ressler, and Jim Shortle talk about Nutrient Management Extension (video clip)
Sierra Magazine ranks Penn State in Top 10 eco-friendly schools
Summer/Fall 2007 issue of PennState Agriculture Magazine featured story Out of Balance, Scientists Grapple With Excess-Nutrient Problem in the Susquehanna River Watershed
Penn State Offers Free "Primer" on Water Quality Credit Trading

Announcements

Agriculture and the Environment: Achieving Balance
June 1-3, 2008, Harrisburg PA
EPA Grant Opportunity
Request for Proposals: Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality
Application Deadline: May 8, 2008
International Hydropedology Conference
July 28-31, 2008
University Park, PA
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Saacke Blunk Directs New Center
Penn State Cooperative Extension Names Leader for Energy Programs
New Director of PSIEE Announced
Opening:
Director, School of Forest Resources
College of Agricultural Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Other open positions:
Assistant /Associate Professor
Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Assistant/Associate Professor
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology