Wally Fulweiler speaks at Ocean Sciences in New Orleans
Boston University’s Wally Fulweiler speaks at Ocean Sciences 2024 in New Orleans On Tuesday February 20th, 2024, Professor Wally Fulweiler was a plenary speaker at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024. OSM24 is a conference for the ocean sciences community, welcoming a ‘diverse community of scientists, students, journalists, policymakers, educators and organizations who are working toward […]
Three E&E faculty promoted to Professors!
A special congratulations to Wally Fulweiler, Mike Dietze, and Lucy Hutyra for reaching the rank of Professor! They ecstatically shared their achievements on Twitter, saying: 22 years ago I sat in our living room & said I'd never get into grad school. My brothers encouraged me to apply. Today I was promoted to Full […]
Wally Fulweiler wins Metcalf Cup teaching award
Associate Professor Wally Fulweiler has received the 2019 Metcalf Cup for excellence in teaching, created to identify and advance members of faculty whose instruction merits special praise. “I love teaching, and I spend a lot of time on it, and I think it’s one of the most important jobs we have,” Professor Fulweiler told BU […]
Emily Chua writes about sailing the high seas with robots
PhD candidate Emily Chua has just published “Sailing the Seven Seas with Argo” in a blog for oceanbites. “Argo is a fleet of nearly 4,000 robotic floats which prowl the upper (<1 kilometer depth) ocean, collecting information on the physical state of the ocean,” Chua notes, adding that much of the world’s oceans remain unsampled […]
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 […]
PhD student Claudia Mazur speaks to Holyoke about sediment-water interface
PhD student Claudia Mazur was invited to give a talk as a part of the Fall 2018 Earth Adventure Series hosted by the Department of Environmental Studies, Geology, & Geography at Mount Holyoke College, Claudia’s alma mater. The purpose of Earth Adventures is to expose current students to scientific research in these three fields occurring […]
PhD candidate Emily Chua selected for LOREX Canada initiative
PhD candidate Emily Chua has been invited to join the Limnology & Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX), sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography. This NSF-funded initiative sponsors up to 30 U.S.-based graduate students per year to conduct collaborative research in aquatic science at an international host institution. Emily will work with several […]
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 […]