Lucy Hutyra

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environment
College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D., Harvard University

lrhutyra@bu.edu
(617) 353-8399
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Research Interests:

• Carbon and water cycling
• Ecosystem responses to stressors
• Atmosphere-biosphere interactions
• Terrestrial ecology
• Urban ecology

Courses Taught:

CAS GE104 Natural Environments: The Physical Landscape
CAS GE 456/656 Terrestrial Ecosystems & the Carbon Cycle
CAS GE510 Physical Principles of the Environment

Brief Biography:

Lucy Hutyra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Boston University.  She received her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2007 from Harvard University for her thesis “Carbon and Water Exchange in Amazonian Rain Forests.” She received B.S. in Forest Ecology and Management from the University of Washington.