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 […]
Suchi Gopal pens editorial for Department of Transportation
Professor Suchi Gopal has written the editorial “The Internet of Things (IoT) for GIS in Transportation” for the newsletter published by the U.S. Department of Transportation. GIS for transportation is experiencing technological innovations with an increasing use of wireless communication, which is the cornerstone of smart city and smart transport (IoT). This technology offers significant […]
Christine Regalla publishes on overriding plates in northwestern U.S. subduction zone
Assistant Professor Christine Regalla has published “Ongoing oroclinal bending in the Cascadia forearc and its relation to concave-outboard plate margin geometry” in Geology. In the article, Dr. Regalla and her colleagues present GPS and geologic data that show the overriding plate of the Cascadia subduction zone in Oregon, Washington and southwestern British Columbia have been […]
Three E&E professors recognized as Highly Cited Researcher
Professors Mark Friedl, Ranga Myneni, and Curtis Woodcock have been recently recognized as “Highly Cited Researchers” in the interdisciplinary “Cross Field” category by Clarivate Analytics for the year 2018. Clarivate runs the Web of Science and recognized a total of 20 researchers from BU. The list identifies scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of […]
Lucy Hutyra and Conor Gately urge cities to show climate progress with data
At The Conversation US, Associate Professor Lucy Hutyra and Postdoctoral Associate Conor Gately advocate for pollution documentation in urban areas. “Over the last decade, our work on urban greenhouse gas emissions has shown that with the right combination of instruments, data and modeling techniques, it is possible to independently quantify carbon dioxide and methane emissions […]
Jeffrey Geddes publishes on geostationary observations of nitrogen dioxide from space
Assistant Professor Jeffrey Geddes has published “Stratosphere-troposphere separation of nitrogen dioxide columns from the TEMPO geostationary satellite instrument” in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. “Separating the stratospheric and tropospheric contributions in satellite retrievals of atmospheric NO2 column abundance is a crucial step in the interpretation and application of the satellite observation,” Geddes and his colleagues write. Their […]
Christine Regalla co-authors paper on earthquake surface rupture in Geophysical Research Letters
Assistant Professor Christine Regalla and her colleagues have published “Holocene Surface Rupture History of an Active Forearc Fault Redefines Seismic Hazard in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada” in Geophysical Research Letters. This paper documents the first detailed history of earthquake surface rupture for an onland fault within the Cascadia subduction zone of British Columbia, Canada. These […]
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 […]