Dietze, Fulweiler, and Hutyra Promoted to Rank of Full Professor

Michael Dietze, Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, and Lucy Hutyra, Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, have been promoted to the rank of full Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment.

As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, Prof. Dietze leads the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI), a grassroots effort he launched in 2018 aimed at building and supporting an interdisciplinary community of practice around near-term ecological forecasts, an emerging research area focused on accelerating environmental research and making it more relevant to society. In 2019, the Pardee Center co-sponsored the first EFI Conference at AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC.

Prof. Fulweiler convened a two-day workshop hosted by the Pardee Center in 2019, which explored the nitrogen removal capacity of oyster habitats via denitrification. The workshop brought together a group of about 30 experts to assess the current state of knowledge on denitrification associated with oyster aquaculture.

Prof. Hutyra leads a project with Prof. Pamela Templer and Prof. Dan Li studying the mitigating effect of vegetation on urban heat in Boston — research for which the trio received a $650,000 NSF grant in 2019.