Earth & Environment is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor
Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment is hiring a tenure-track Assistant professor in modeling of the coastal marine environment, starting 7/1/2022, pending budgetary approval. Approaches include, although are not limited to: coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling, coupled biophysical modeling, large-eddy simulation, and sediment transport modeling. Topics of interest include effects of climate change and extreme events […]
Nilotpal Ghosh co-authors Laurentia-Gondwana collision study in Palaeo3
Geochemistry specialist Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh co-authored a paper titled “Sandstone petrographic and mudstone REE and Nd-isotopic evidence for Middle Pennsylvanian arrival of Gondwana sediments in the Fort Worth Basin” in the journal Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. The study utilized petrographic and geochemical/isotopic data of Paleozoic sandstone and mudstone sediments from the Fort Worth Basin, Texas to […]
PhD Candidate Alicia Zhang and Lecturer Rick Reibstein presented comments to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Ph.D. Candidate Alicia Zhang and Lecturer Rick Reibstein presented comments to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council on August 18, 2021, recommending attention to the opportunity to benefit EJ communities by implementing Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), a method by which municipal governments purchase electricity in bulk for their residents. Zhang reported on what she learned […]
Three E&E faculty promoted to Professors!
A special congratulations to Wally Fulweiler, Mike Dietze, and Lucy Hutyra for reaching the rank of Professor! They ecstatically shared their achievements on Twitter, saying: 22 years ago I sat in our living room & said I'd never get into grad school. My brothers encouraged me to apply. Today I was promoted to Full […]
Lecturer Rick Reibstein published in the Institute for Sustainable Energy
Lecturer Rick Reibstein writes “As a lifelong environmentalist people sometimes tell me that they really care about the environment but don’t know what they can do. This leads to discussions about flying less, buying less-polluting machines and products, recycling, eating less meat. But nothing compares to the good every American citizen can do this Fall. […]
Professor Robinson “Wally” Fulweiler and Biology student Nicholas E. Ray publish in Nature Sustainability
Overfishing, nutrient-fuelled hypoxia and habitat destruction have reduced oyster populations to a fraction of their former abundance. Over the past two decades there has been a widespread effort to restore oyster reefs and develop oyster aquaculture. Yet it remains unclear how re-introduction of large oyster populations will change coastal biogeochemistry. Of particular interest is whether […]
Former Ph.D. Student Chi Chen Published Article on Biophysical Impact of Global Greening in Science Advances
Chi Chen, together with Profs. Dan Li and Ranga Myneni published an article on how the global greening alters land surface temperature. The article reports that increased vegetation growth during the recent decade has a strong cooling effect on the land due to increased efficiency of heat and water vapor transfer to the atmosphere. This […]
Dr. Rachel Abercrombie named a 2020 AGU Fellow
Dr. Rachel Abercrombie investigates all aspects of the earthquake rupture process, for example, how earthquakes start and grow, what factors govern the size and location of slip, and how one earthquake affects another. She was recently named a 2020 AGU Fellow. Robin Bell, the AGU president, writes: “The members of this year’s class of Fellows […]
Four EE Faculty are named Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science
We are proud to announce that Dr. Ranga Myneni, Dr. Mark Friedl, Dr. Curtis Woodcock, and Dr. Mike Dietze have all been named Highly Cited Researchers by the Web of Science! Since 2001, the Highly Cited Researchers™ list has identified global research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence – reflected through their […]
Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh co-authors publication in EPSL
Geochemistry lab specialist Dr Nilotpal Ghosh co-authored a publication titled “Widespread silicic and alkaline magmatism synchronous with the Deccan Traps flood basalts, India” in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters (EPSL). The paper presented the first U-Pb ages of the understudied silicic and alkalic rocks of Deccan flood basalt volcanism and showed that these […]