Dr. Christoph Nolte publishes a research article in PNAS
The justification and targeting of conservation policy rests on reliable measures of public and private benefits from competing land uses. Advances in Earth system observation and modeling permit the mapping of public ecosystem services at unprecedented scales and resolutions, prompting new proposals for land protection policies and priorities. Data on private benefits from land use […]
Professor Hutyra publishes an article with EE students
Dr. Lucy Hutyra, in conjunction with several BU EE students published “A tree-planting decision support tool for urban heat mitigation.” The paper explores the urgent public health threat that heat poses to dwellers of cities. The City of Boston has attempted to expand its urban canopy, yet maintenance costs and high tree mortality have hindered […]
Dr. Suchi Gopal Selected as Visiting Professor to Indonesia, World Class Professor Program
Professor Suchi Gopal has been selected as a Visiting Professor in the Ocean and Coastal Remote Sensing, Integrated Laboratory, Diponegoro University (UNDIP) in Northern Central Java, Semarang, Indonesia, under the World Class Professor (WCP) program initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. This award will help Professor Gopal assist […]
Recent News from the Myneni-Knyazikhin Group
The following are some of the research activities of the Myneni-Knyazikhin group since the start of 2020. – Group members published 6 journal articles, which can be found at http://sites.bu.edu/cliveg/publications/publications-2020/ – Chi Chen defended his doctoral dissertation in May and started a new position joint with UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore Nationa Laboratory – Zhenpeng Zuo […]
The Sweaty Penguin is featured in BU Today!
Ethan Brown, a senior in EAP and the creator and host of The Sweaty Penguin: a comedy environmental podcast produced with Caroline Koehl (CAS’22), Frank Hernandez (COM’20), and Shannon Damiano (COM’22) and the BUild Lab was featured in a BU Today article! So far, the podcast has 16 episodes featuring Earth & Environment community members such […]
Professor Rachel Abercrombie co-authors two papers
Professor Rachel Abercrombie co-authored two recent papers on novel earthquake behavior. The first involved a large earthquake in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean that was recorded by a UK deployment of ocean bottom seismometers. It was published in Nature Geoscience, and featured in various news articles, including a well-written piece in National Geographic. The second, published […]
Dr. Suchi Gopal as Moderator on a Security and Sustainability Webinar
On Wednesday, August 5th, Professor Suchi Gopal will serve as a moderator on a Security and Sustainability Webinar. The webinar is from 1:15PM-2:15PM. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6102035954803486479
Professor Cutler Cleveland and PhD student Alicia Zhang co-author an article on The Conversation
“Back in in 2018 – in the pre-pandemic world – about 5% of the U.S. workforce teleworked from home. That changed dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; by May 2020 that number had jumped to about 35%. Tech giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter announced plans to extend teleworking well into the […]
Assistant Professor Christoph Nolte’s NASA-ROSES Proposal is Accepted
Assistant Professor Christoph Nolte’s NASA-ROSES Proposal for Comparing the effectiveness of conservation instruments in the Colombian andes biodiversity hotspot has been accepted. Co-Investigators include postdoctoral associates Paulo Arévalo and Eric Bullock. Collaborators include Professors Mark Friedl and Curtis Woodcock of Earth & Environment, Gustavo Galindo of the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies, Clara Matallana of the […]
Women In STEM Panel
On July 9th at 5:30PM, Nia Bartolucci will be a speaker on a panel being hosted by the Girl Up chapter at the Canadian International School in Bangalore, India, entitled “Women in STEM”. Girl Up is a UN affiliated group that works to educate, advocate, and fundraise for gender equality. With the other panelists we […]