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.<\/p>\n
All seminars are held at 3:30-4:30 in CAS 132, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Virtual options are sometimes available.<\/p>\n
September 22:<\/strong> Malcom Itter<\/a>,<\/strong> UMass Amherst September 29: Izabela Aleixo<\/a><\/strong>, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz\u00f4nia October 6:<\/strong> Yoshihiro Nakayama<\/a>,<\/strong> Dartmouth College November 3:<\/strong> Clarisse Hart<\/a>,<\/strong> Harvard Forest November 10: <\/strong>Katia Lamer<\/a>,<\/strong> Brookhaven National Lab December 1:<\/strong> Daniel Hayes<\/a>,<\/strong> University of Maine February 2: Rachel Abercrombie<\/a>, Boston University February 9: Nick Record<\/a>, Bigelow Marine Lab March 16: Rose Abramoff<\/a>, University of Maine March 30:<\/strong> Adam Subhas<\/a>, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/strong> April 13:<\/strong> Tanja Bosak<\/a>,<\/strong> MIT<\/strong>
\nTitle: Predictive models to inform adaptive forest management and conservation<\/em>
\nHost: Mike Dietze
\nCAS 132
\nSPECIAL EVENT<\/span> to follow -> Fall Social @ BU Pub
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\nTitle: Tropical Forests and Environmental Change: Insights from Long-Term Phenology and Large-Scale Experiments in the Central Amazon<\/i>
\nHost: Lucy Hutyra
\nCAS 132<\/strong>
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\nTitle: How Can We Better Understand What Is Happening in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica?<\/em>
\nHost: Xiaozhou Ruan
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Equitable Science Engagement Begins with Re-Mapping Whose Science Counts: Local Indigenous Partnerships and Mentorship of K-12 Youth<\/em>
\nHost: Lucy Hutyra & Nik Bates-Haus
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\nTitle:\u00a0Filling Data Deserts to Understand Urban Airflow and Heat Mitigation<\/em>
\nHost: Dan Li
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Reconciling the “missing sink” in large-scale greenhouse gas budgets: a sideways solution to the top-down vs. bottom-up problem<\/em>
\nHost: Mike Dietze
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
Spring 2026<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>Department of Earth & Environment
\nTitle: Earthshaking Science: What we do and don\u2019t know about earthquakes, and implications for hazards mitigation<\/em>
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tandy Center for Ocean Forecasting
\nTitle: What is the future of the ocean?<\/em>
\nHost: Mike Dietze
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>School of Forest Resources
\nTitle: Slash and burn: consequences of harvest and prescribed burn in a temperate mixedwood forest<\/em>
\nHost: Nathan Phillips
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\nDepartment of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
\nTitle: Ocean Alkalinity and Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal\u00a0<\/em>
\nHost: Jeff Marlow
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n
\nDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
\nTitle: TBD<\/em>
\nCAS 132<\/p>\n