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The GeoGraphics Lab will host its first Community Mapping Day on Saturday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Walker Building at University Park. The event, free and open to the public, will kick off with an optional breakfast at 8 a.m. and bring together students, faculty and community members for a day of hands-on mapping, creative geospatial storytelling and collaborative problem-solving centered on sustainability and local climate action.

The Penn State Department of Geography will host Sophie Webber, senior lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Sydney, as part of its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Webber’s talk, "Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures," will examine how climate change is increasingly understood and addressed through financial mechanisms.

The Penn State Climate Consortium has awarded five workshops as a part of its Climate Solutions Accelerator Program for 2025. In its second year, the Climate Solutions Accelerator continues to foster impactful research and bring effective climate solutions to communities in Pennsylvania and around the world. The purpose of the collaborative workshops is to establish and/or advance teams aligned with the Climate Consortium’s themes.

Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 10 distinguished professors for 2025, including Karl Zimmerer, professor of geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Felicia Henry, assistant professor of sociology at American University, will give the talk, "I Knew It Was COVID, I Knew I Was on Probation: Black Women Navigating Community Supervision During COVID-19," at the Department of Geography's spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. 

Guido Cervone, Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) interim director and professor of geography, of meteorology and of atmospheric science, was recently named chair of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting program committee. 

Laifang Li, assistant professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State, will present at the Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7.

Four Penn State Department of Geography faculty members — Lorraine Dowler, Joshua Inwood, Zhenlong Li and Emily Rosenman — have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of geography at Penn State, offered insights into the ongoing crisis in Los Angeles (LA). 

The Penn State Climate Consortium has announced a call for breakout sessions for the 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium, taking place May 19-20, 2025, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.