GE 532 students present analysis of Mystic River contamination
On March 28, students in Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations (GE 532) presented their analysis of chemical storage and contaminated site vulnerability to climate change to representatives of the Mystic River Watershed Association, the Sustainable Remediation Forum, EcoAdapt, and the engineering consulting firms Fuss & O’Neill and Woodward and Curran. The students also presented […]
Christoph Nolte publishes on ties between conservation and economic growth
Assistant Professor Christoph Nolte has contributed to “Assessing the local economic impacts of land protection,” just published in the journal Conservation Biology. The study explores the link between increases in land protection and employment. “Employment gains were modest but significant across the region, and the effect was amplified in more rural areas,” says Kate Sims, […]
Emily Chua and Claudia Mazur receive Warren-McLeod Fellowships
PhD students Emily Chua and Claudia Mazur have been awarded Warren-McLeod Fellowships for their marine science work. Chua will use her year-long award to help develop an underwater instrument to investigate biogeochemical processes occurring in marine sediments. Mazur will use her summer grant to study nitrogen cycling in coastal marine sediments. The Warren-McLeod Graduate Fellowship in Marine […]
Sarah Foster and Wally Fulweiler in Eos spotlight
A new article by PhD candidate Sarah Foster and Associate Professor Wally Fulweiler has been featured in the Research Spotlight of Eos, AGU’s weekly magazine. In “Estuarine Sediments Exhibit Dynamic and Variable Biogeochemical Responses to Hypoxia,” Foster and Fulweiler investigate how estuary sediments interact with oxygen levels in water to affect nutrient levels and greenhouse […]
Robert Kaufmann publishes on oil rig activity in Nature Energy
Professor Robert Kaufmann has just published “The effect of oil and gas price and price volatility on rig activity in tight formations and OPEC strategy” in Nature Energy. In the article, Professor Kaufmann and his colleague Esmail Ansari show that “the [break-even price] for rigs used to drill oil wells is $20 (~$50 nominal), the […]
Mike Dietze delivers keynote at Mass Environmental Education Society
Associate Professor Mike Dietze delivered the keynote at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society annual conference, as he addressed ecological forecasting and its application to citizen science. Professor Dietze spoke of the ways that iterative forecasts can improve and accelerate basic environmental science, while at the same time making that science more directly relevant to society. […]
Ranga Myneni coauthors article in Nature Communications on emergent constraints
Professor Ranga Myneni has coauthored “Earth system models underestimate carbon fixation by plants in the high latitudes” with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where he spent part of his sabbatical period in 2018. The article, published in Nature Communications, reports on using greening sensitivity inferred from the past three decades […]
Yuri Knyazikhin and Ranga Myneni win research projects from NASA’s DSCOVR Program
Professors Yuri Knyazkhin and Ranga Myneni’s proposed research projects were recently selected for three-year funding by NASA under their DSCOVR program. Knyazikhin proposed “DSCOVR EPIC VESDR Product: Algorithm refinement, validation and scientific exploration,” and Myneni submitted “Vegetation hot spot signatures from synergy of EPIC-DSCOVR and EOS/SUOMI sensors to monitor changes in global forests.” According to […]
Chi Chen and Taejin Park publish widely covered article in Nature Sustainability
PhD students Chi Chen and Taejin Park, members of Ranga Myneni and Yuri Knyazikhin’s research group, recently published “China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management” in Nature Sustainability. NASA and several other organizations issued press releases that were covered widely in various forms of media. The article reports that the […]
Cutler Cleveland talks to BU Today about Green New Deal
Professor Cutler Cleveland spoke to BU Today about the Green New Deal unveiled by BU alum Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “A 10-year window to eliminate all [greenhouse gas] emissions is unrealistic,” Cleveland told the news site. “The technologies to achieve this already exist to a large extent: electricity from wind and solar, electric vehicles, and net-zero […]