PhD student Chi Chen co-authors article on 2015/16 ENSO event impacts to the carbon cycle
PhD student Chi Chen (advised by Ranga Myneni) contributed to a recently published article on the impacts of 2015/16 El Niño event to the terrestrial Carbon cycle. In “Impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on the terrestrial carbon cycle constrained by bottom-up and top-down approaches,” published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Chen and […]
Yasmin Romitti contributes to NAS report on carbon dioxide removal and sequestration
First-year PhD student Yasmin Romitti has collaborated with the National Academy of Sciences to develop a research agenda for dealing carbon dioxide capture. Negative emissions technologies that aim to remove and sequester excess carbon from the atmosphere have been identified as an important part of the portfolio of responses to climate change. This new report […]
Suchi Gopal and James Baldwin publish on Chinese global energy investment
Professor Suchi Gopal, Lecturer James Baldwin, and Kevin Gallagher of BU’s Global Development Policy Center have penned “Fueling Global Energy Finance: The Emergence of China in Global Energy Investment” in Energies. The writers assess the investment trends in the global energy sector during, before, and after the financial crisis of 2008 using the Dealogic database […]
John Fegyveresi publishes on ice core bubbles as strain indicators
Adjunct Assistant Professor John Fegyveresi and his colleagues have penned “Instruments and methods: a case study of ice core bubbles as strain indicators” in Annals of Glaciology. In their abstract, the authors note, “Measurements of a sample from ~580 m depth in the WAIS Divide (WDC06A) ice core reveal that bubbles are preferentially elongated in […]
Rick Murray elected to AGU Board of Directors
Professor Rick Murray has been elected to a two-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Geophysical Association, where he will help oversee AGU’s business, organizational, and legal affairs. For nearly a century AGU has worked to promote discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity.
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 […]