Recent Lectures & Panels
Earth & Environment Alumni Career Panel
April 30, 2020
You Don’t Look Like a Geologist: A Conversation about Diversity (or Lack Thereof) in Science
Deborah Green, GeologistWriter.com
October 21, 2019
Recent Faculty Awards
an incomplete list of major awards received by Earth & Environment faculty
- Michael Dietze, Distinguished Lecture, National Science Foundation, 2018
- Farouk El-Baz, Honorary Doctorate, Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt), 2018
- Farouk El-Baz, Chancellor Medal, University of Missouri, 2018
- Jeffrey Geddes, NSF and NASA CAREER Grants, 2018
- Michael Dietze, Hariri Research Incubation Award, 2018
- Farouk El-Baz, Inamori Ethics Prize, 2018
- Sergio Fagherazzi, J.J. Mehta Award, 2017
- Sergio Fagherazzi, Brunings Lecture Keynote, 2017
- Alyssa Novak, U.S. EPA Environmental Merit Award, 2017
- Rachel Abercrombie, Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, American Geophysical Union, 2016
- Wally Fulweiler, Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography Fellow, 2016
- Bruce Anderson, American Meteorological Society’s Editor’s Award, Journal of Climate, 2016
Faculty in the News
an incomplete list of faculty appearances in the media
- Nathan Phillips on Merrick Valley gas explosions (WGBH, 2018)
- Robert Buchwaldt on Boston’s volcano (WGBH, 2018)
- Wally Fulweiler on Narragansett Bay’s ecology (ecoRI News, Providence Journal, 2018)
- Wally Fulweiler on EPA yanking scientist conference presentations (Washington Post, Providence Journal, Les Echos, 2018)
- Pontus Olofsson on restoring NASA funding (Science Magazine, 2018)
- Cutler Cleveland on Trump’s first year (BU Today, 2018)
- Robert Kaufmann and Cutler Cleveland’s research on electricity expenditures highlighted (Energy Policy, 2017)
- Mark Friedl addresses carbon absorption (BU Today, 2017)
- Pontus Olofsson on Trump’s NASA budget (Science Magazine, 2017)
- Michael Dietze on tickborne disease risk (University of Florida, 2017)
- Robert Buchwaldt
Students & Alumni in the News
an incomplete list of graduate student and alumni appearances in the media
- Katie Camero on underground diamonds (Boston Globe, 2018)
- Claudia Mazur on hydropower and deep sea mining (Envirobites, 2018)
- Kasey Aderhold profiled on women and STEM (Mashable, 2018)
- David Stern featured for highly ranked economics blog (Intelligent Economist, 2018)
- Arnold Fernandes featured for impact of hurricanes and nor’easters (Earth & Space News, 2018)
- Angela Rigden on summertime evapotranspiration (Fluxnet, 2017)
- Ida Kubiszewski on all-women research in Antarctica (BBC, 2017)
- Valerie Pasquarella on gypsy moth damage (UMass Amherst, 2016)