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 2026
September 28: Tony Fulton Rockwell, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Title: Between a rock and a dry place: the emergence of stomatal behavior across time and spatial scales
CAS 132
SPECIAL EVENT to follow -> Fall Social @ Institute of Global Sustainability (111 Cummington Mall)
October 5: Kelly Aho, Department of Biology, Boston University
Title: Greenhouse gas emissions from streams and rivers: Linking biogeochemistry, aquatic ecology, and climate change
CAS 132
October 19: Christian Guzman, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UMass Amherst
Title: Water age variability across nested catchments and aggregation points
CAS 132
October 26: Lucas Zeppeto, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Title: Why do ecosystems have optimum temperatures?
CAS 132
November 9: Xingchen (Tony) Wang, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College
Title: Ocean Fertilization Through Time: Lessons for Carbon Sequestration and Deoxygenation
CAS 132
November 16: Pat Keys, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University
Title: Who changes the rain? Applying moisture recycling to understand interactions among human systems and the atmospheric water cycle
CAS 132
SPECIAL SEMINAR, November 30: Elizabeth Barnes, CDS and Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University
Title: An Unstable State: My Continuous Struggel to Find Work Life “Balance”
CAS 132
Spring 2027
TBA