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 […]
E&E major Emma Quirk rows for BU
Emma Quirk, an Earth & Environmental Science major and senior, joins the Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend with BU’s Rowing Team. The event attracts more than 11,000 athletes competing in more than 1,900 boats in 53 races and is the largest two-day regatta in the world. The competition attracts tens of thousands of […]
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 […]
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 […]