Students Present to Brookline Zero Emissions Advisory Board
Five students from EE 538, Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations, presented to a meeting of the Zero Emissions Advisory Board of Brookline, MA. Brookline has had a Climate Action Plan in place for more than a decade. After Brookline resident Deborah Brown saw students present in 2021, she informed the Board of the possibility […]
Congratulations to Associate Professor Dan Li!
A special congratulations to Dr. Dan Li, who has been promoted from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor. Associate Professor Li first joined the department in 2015 as an assistant professor, previously serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. He completed his PhD at Princeton University in the department of Civil and […]
Collaborating with wildlife: new research finds that wild animals participate in their own preservation
Why do many wildlife conservation and management programs struggle to meet their goals of protecting threatened species and preventing conflicts between humans and wildlife? New research from Boston University, Clark University, and New York University published in “Conservation Biology”, finds that one reason may be how we relate to wild animals in the first place. […]
ISE Director Benjamin Sovacool recipient of 2022 Energy and Environment Specialty Group Professional Geographer Award
ISE Director Benjamin Sovacool paper, Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways published in World Development was selected as the winner of the 2022 Energy and Environment Specialty Group Professional Geographer Award! ABSTRACT This study examines the justice and equity implications of four low-carbon transitions, and it […]
Students Present Innovative Energy Program Ideas to Local And National Energy Experts
On February 22nd, Daniel Daponte and Valentina Vaney presented their ideas for municipal action to accelerate the adoption of solar and novel solar placement to the Municipal Sustainable Energy Forum, a discussion group of experts on energy policy for communities. Daponte and Ian Galinson previously presented their work to the Sustainable Lexington (Massachusetts) committee, which […]
Professor Kaufmann provides his expertise on Green Finance with MoneyGeek
Professor Robert Kaufmann had a chance to sit down with the people at MoneyGeek to discuss Green Finance–and ways that we can incorporate sustainable practices into our daily lives. After all, the increasing loss of biodiversity and severe weather from climate change affects every single one of us. The critical choices we make now directly […]
PhD Candidate Claudia Mazur awarded 2022 ESA Graduate Student Policy Award
PhD candidate Claudia Mazur was awarded the 2022 ESA Graduate Student Policy Award. She is a member of the Fulweiler Lab where she studies the impact of human activities on coastal biogeochemical cycling. The Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award award provides graduate students with the opportunity to participate in a virtual Congressional Visits […]
PhD Candidate Adam Pollack & Professor Robert Kaufmann published in Ecological economics
The market’s ability to cope with storm-related risk partially depends on whether this risk is reflected accurately in house prices. We assess the degree to which these prices reflect storm-related risk versus amenities, and how storms change this relationship, with a statistical model that uses an objective procedure to choose among nearly one thousand variables […]
Professor Lucy Hutyra and PhD candidate Luca Morreale published in Nature Communications
Earth & Environment Professor Lucy Hutyra and Graduate Student Fellow at the Hariri Institute & PhD candidate Luca Morreale, in collaboration with scientists from Harvard Forest and The City University of New York, found that trees along the edges of temperate forests grow faster and denser as a result of fragmentation–in contrast to their tropical […]
Four Faculty Members recognized as Highly Cited Researchers
Four faculty members at Boston University’s Department of Earth & Environment have been recognized by Web of Science as Highly Cited Researchers in 2021! Considered true trailblazers in their fields, these elite researchers have produced multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% of their field and year in Web of science. This […]