{"id":4812,"date":"2019-04-18T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/?page_id=4812"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:07:10","slug":"annual-fred-lang-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/commuity\/annual-fred-lang-memorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Fred Lang Memorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BU Marine Program Faculty started this lecture series in honor of Fred Lang, an invertebrate physiologist. Fred Lang’s work followed themes of cardiac and neuromuscular physiology, blended uniquely with developmental neurobiology in lobsters. Teaching was always an important activity for Fred, and even after obtaining a Career Development Award, he continued it enthusiastically. He was a key figure in the Boston University Marine Program at Woods Hole and his legacy is carried on through this annual lecture.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Lang Lecture
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Speaker<\/strong>:\u00a0Baylor Fox-Kemper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026
\nBU Photonics, Room 206
\n8 St. Mary’s St. | 6:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baylor\u00a0Fox-Kemper is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University and an elected fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). His research focuses on the physics of the ocean and its role within the Earth\u2019s climate system. By bridging the gap between complex computational models and autonomous observations, his group develops mathematically rigorous “toy models,” parameterizations, and diagnostics to simplify and explain intricate oceanic processes.<\/p>\n

Before joining Brown in 2013,\u00a0Baylor\u00a0was an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a fellow at CIRES. He completed his PhD through the MIT\/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and held research positions at both MIT and Princeton\/GFDL. His foundational training includes physics degrees from Reed College and Brandeis University.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Prof. Fox-Kemper is a recognized leader in the global climate community, notably serving as: Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (Ocean, Cryosphere, and Sea Level Change chapter), and\u00a0Co-chair of the Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Core Project for the World Climate Research Program. At Brown, he serves as the STEM faculty director of the Equitable Climate Futures initiative and collaborates across disciplines with the Center for Fluid Mechanics and the Theoretical Physics Center. Fox-Kemper has received an NSF CAREER award and the AGU Ocean Sciences Early Career Award.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous Lecturers<\/h5>
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Dr. Barbara A. Block<\/strong>, Stanford University<\/p>\n

Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai,<\/strong> Carnegie Institution for Science<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Gretchen Hofmann<\/strong>, UC Santa Barbara<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Heidi Sosik<\/strong>, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/p>\n

Dr. Rocky Geyer<\/strong>, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/p>\n

Dr. Nancy Knowlton<\/strong>, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History<\/p>\n

Dr. Steve Palumbi<\/strong>, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station<\/p>\n

Dr. Carl Safina<\/strong>, Stony Brook University and the Safina Center<\/p>\n

Dr. Bernd Budelman<\/strong>, University of Texas, Biomedical Research Institute of Galveston<\/p>\n

Dr. Irene Pepperberg<\/strong>, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<\/p>\n

Dr. Charles Stevens<\/strong>, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California)<\/p>\n

Dr. Nicholas Strausfield<\/strong>, University of Arizona, Department of Entomology, Neurobiology, Anatomy, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology<\/p>\n

Dr. Even Marder<\/strong>, Brandeis University, Department of Biology (Modulation of Neural Networks)<\/p>\n

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