Yue Qin awarded Outstanding Student Presentation
Yue Qin, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in E&E, has received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award AMS’s 24th Symposium on Boundary-Layers & Turbulence. In “On the logarithmic behavior of streamwise velocity variance in the neutral atmospheric surface laye,” Ms. Qin explores, ” While the mean velocity profile in the near-neutral atmospheric surface layer has been well […]
E&E earthquake expert on the Turkey earthquake
E&E professor Rachel Abercrombie spoke with The Brink about the devastation in Turkey and Syria following Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake. “The problem is not really the earthquake,” explains Professor Abercrombie. “The problem is often bad construction that isn’t earthquake safe, the building codes, and the lack of enforcement of the building codes. Read the full story […]
E&E celebrates the Class of 2020
On May 20, the Department of Earth & Environment celebrated the Class of 2020. Here’s how we honored our students, their achievements, and their dreams.
E&E Coronavirus Update
The Department of Earth & Environment continues its normal operations, while instruction has moved on-line and personnel work remotely. If you have questions about operations, please email us at earth@bu.edu. Information about BU’s response to COVID-19 can be found at: https://www.bu.edu/covid-19-information/.
Tess McCabe honored for ESA presentation
PhD candidate Tess McCabe has received the E.C. Pielou Award from the Ecological Society of America. The competitive award is made annually based on the overall quality of a student’s scientific contribution to statistical ecology. At the ESA’s Annual Meeting, Tess presented “Scaling contagious disturbance in a spatially implicit way: Implications for describing disturbance regimes.” She […]
Colin Averill wins ESA Biogeosciences publications award
Colin Averill, a faculty member at ETH Zurich, has received the Gene E. Likens Award from the Biogeosciences Section of the Ecological Society of America. The prize recognizes work conducted by an early career scientist; Averill conducted his research as a postdoc with E&E Associate Professor Mike Dietze and Biology Assistant Professor Jennifer Bhatnagar. The […]
Mike Dietze and Ecological Forecasting Initiative profiled in Science
Associate Professor Michael Dietze was profiled this month in Science, which highlighted his Ecological Forecasting Initiative as “a grassroots effort to set standards, encourage interdisciplinary approaches, and develop forecasting methods that can be applied to many situations, including fisheries management, wildlife migrations, algal blooms, wildfire patterns, and human disease.” “EFI specifically aims to tackle cross-cutting […]
Cutler Cleveland talks to BU Today about summer heat
In a recent interview with BU Today, Professor Cutler Cleveland discusses why July was Boston’s warmest month on record. “Climate change is an urgent problem whose effects are being felt today; it is not just a ‘later this century’ problem. The health of people, ecosystems, and the economy are already diminished by climate change,” Dr. […]
Chi Chen and Taejin Park publish on photosynthetic activity in Global Change Biology
PhD students Chi Chen and Taejin Park recently published “Changes in the timing of peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems” in Global Change Biology. The authors use the “laws of minimum” as a basis and introduce a new framework where the timing (day of year) of peak photosynthetic activity (DOYPmax) acts as a proxy for […]
Wally Fulweiler wins Metcalf Cup teaching award
Associate Professor Wally Fulweiler has received the 2019 Metcalf Cup for excellence in teaching, created to identify and advance members of faculty whose instruction merits special praise. “I love teaching, and I spend a lot of time on it, and I think it’s one of the most important jobs we have,” Professor Fulweiler told BU […]