The Biogeoscience Seminar Series provides a forum for student, postdoc, and faculty interaction to highlight Boston University research and to provide a venue for high profile speakers from beyond BU.
All seminars are held at 3:30-4:30 in CAS 132, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Virtual options are sometimes available.
Fall 2025
September 22: Malcom Itter, UMass Amherst
Title: Predictive models to inform adaptive forest management and conservation
Host: Mike Dietze
CAS 132
SPECIAL EVENT to follow -> Fall Social @ BU Pub
September 29: Izabela Aleixo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Title: Tropical Forests and Environmental Change: Insights from Long-Term Phenology and Large-Scale Experiments in the Central Amazon
Host: Lucy Hutyra
CAS 132
October 6: Yoshihiro Nakayama, Dartmouth College
Title: How Can We Better Understand What Is Happening in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica?
Host: Xiaozhou Ruan
CAS 132
November 3: Clarisse Hart, Harvard Forest
Title: Equitable Science Engagement Begins with Re-Mapping Whose Science Counts: Local Indigenous Partnerships and Mentorship of K-12 Youth
Host: Lucy Hutyra & Nik Bates-Haus
CAS 132
November 10: Katia Lamer, Brookhaven National Lab
Title: Filling Data Deserts to Understand Urban Airflow and Heat Mitigation
Host: Dan Li
CAS 132
December 1: Daniel Hayes, University of Maine
Title: Reconciling the “missing sink” in large-scale greenhouse gas budgets: a sideways solution to the top-down vs. bottom-up problem
Host: Mike Dietze
CAS 132
Spring 2026
February 2: Rachel Abercrombie, Boston University
Department of Earth & Environment
Title: TBD
CAS 132
February 9: Nick Record, Bigelow Marine Lab
Tandy Center for Ocean Forecasting
Title: TBD
Host: Mike Dietze
CAS 132
March 16: Rose Abramoff, University of Maine
School of Forest Resources
Title: TBD
Host: Nathan Phillips
CAS 132
March 30: Adam Subhas, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Title: TBD
Host: Jeff Marlow
CAS 132
April 13: Tanja Bosak, MIT
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Title: TBD
CAS 132