Dan Li publishes on atmospheric boundary layer in Atmospheric Research
Assistant Professor Dan Li has published a single-author, invited review article titled “Turbulent Prandtl number in the atmospheric boundary layer – where are we now?” in Atmospheric Research. Turbulent Prandtl number is named after the Father of Modern Fluid Mechanics, Ludwig Prandtl, and is an indicator of how turbulent transport of heat differs from its […]
Istem Fer, Elizabeth Cowdery, and Mike Dietze publish in Biogeosciences
Postdoc Istem Fer, PhD candidate Elizabeth Cowdery, and Associate Professor Mike Dietze have co-authored “Linking big models to big data: efficient ecosystem model calibration through Bayesian model emulation” in Biogeosciences. “Bayesian methods provide a rigorous data assimilation framework for these applications, especially for problems with multiple data constraints,” the authors note. “However, the Markov chain […]
Sergio Fagherazzi and Cédric Fichot join the newly funded NASA Delta-X team to study the future of the Mississippi delta
Professor Sergio Fagherazzi and Assistant Professor Cédric Fichot have joined the Delta-X investigation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to better understand the natural processes that maintain and build land in major river deltas threatened by rising seas. The project will improve models that predict loss of coastal land from sea level rise […]
Wally Fulweiler to speak about discovering the unknown at Radcliffe Institute
Associate Professor Wally Fulweiler will join The Undiscovered, a Radcliffe Institute science symposium that will focus on how scientists explore realities they cannot anticipate. Speakers from across the disciplines of modern science will present personal experiences and discuss how to train scientists, educators, and funders to foster the expertise and open-mindedness needed to reveal undiscovered aspects […]
Professor Nathan Phillips discusses recent gas leaks in Merrick Valley
Professor Nathan Phillips recently spoke with BU Today about the gas leaks and explosions in Merrimack Valley. “Piecing together information from a press briefing, it appears that a routine removal of a pipe from the aging, leaking pipeline system was done without first removing a pressure sensor on that old pipe that had regulated how […]
Rachael Garrett publishes on causes of changes in land use extent and intensity
Assistant Professor Rachael Garrett has published “Middle-range Theories of Land System Change” in Global Environmental Change. Dr. Garrett and her colleagues note that while an integrated theory of land system change remains elusive, they show that contextual generalizations that describe chains of causal mechanisms explaining a well-bounded range of phenomena, as well as the conditions […]
Suchi Gopal and Magaly Koch receive NSF grant to study Indonesian coast
Professor Suchi Gopal and Research Associate Professor Magaly Koch of the Center for Remote Sensing will receive $200,000 over three years for 18 U.S. students to gain international research experience in earth, life and data sciences as applied to the coastal region of Northern Central Java. Assessing the impacts of present and future coastal hazards […]
Associate Professor Anne Short Gianotti receives NSF grant for research on the politics of urban and suburban wildlife management
Associate Professor Anne Short Gianotti has been awarded $375,000 for the project “Deer in the Suburbs: A Comparative Study of the Mobilization and Mutation of Wildlife Management Strategies.” Along with collaborator John Casellas Connors (Texas A&M; E&E Adjunct djunct Research Assistant Professor), Short Gianotti will examine the shifting management strategies related to growing white-tailed deer […]
Associate Professor Mike Dietze to deliver NSF Distinguished Lecture
On September 27 Associate Professor Mike Dietze will deliver the Distinguished Lecture for the National Science Foundation, hosted by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and Division of Biological Infrastructure. His talk is entitled “Solving the Challenge of Predicting Nature: How Close Are We and How Do We Get There.” Is nature predictable? If so, how […]
New Culture of Science Seminar group forming
Come to the planning meeting for an interdisciplinary research and reading group provisionally titled Cultures of Science. We are casting a wide net, including: history of science and medicine, science and technology studies (STS), philosophy of science; Indigenous Traditional Knowledge; medical humanities; literature, sciences and the arts; environmental humanities; bioethics. Faculty, graduate students, and researchers […]