2025 Newsletter Issues
September 16th Setting Sail! Faculty spotlights, events for YOU, recap of welcome, and more!
September 2nd Welcome Back! Summer recap, welcome events, department updates, and more!
June 9th Graduation Edition! Photos and memories from the big day!
April 29th What’s Blooming? Perkins Award, Draper Award, Phi Beta Kappa, and CONVOCATION!
April 15th Busy Bees! Grad talks, Earth Day 365, PhD defense, grad student award, and more!
April 1st Earth Month! Climate change is solved, stick bugs invade earth, and the moon explodes!
March 18th Solar Power! Senior spotlights, grad talks, PhD defense, Giving Day, and more!
March 4th Marching Forth! Research Bites, Science Communication, bald eaglets, and more!
February 19th Making Waves! DEI Opportunities, Climate Anxiety event, moray eels, and more!
February 4th Seismic Surprises! Career fair, grad talks, BU Closet spotlight, Idori, and more!
January 21st Happy New Year! Spring 2025 semester begins, welcome back, more!
2024 Newsletter Issues
December 16th End of Year Wrap Up! Successful PhD defenses, awards, publications, and more!
November 14th Leaf Edition! Wally Fulweiler Pivot Fellow, cool events, a sea slug, and more!
October 25th Halloween! Spooky seminars, tasty Research Bites, haunting news, and more!
October 10th Mid-Semester Momentum! Photo winners, publications, DEI events, and more!
September 24th Autumn Opportunities! Awards, book publication, a chair welcome, and more!
September 10th The Semester is Off to a Great Start! Lots of events, lots of publications, and lots more!
August 29th Welcome Back to Campus! Photo contest, orientations and kickoff events, and more!
June 25th Summer Updates! 5 Promotions, 4 PhDs, summer activities, and more.
May 31st Special Graduation Edition! Check out these amazing photos and memories, and celebrate the class of 2024!
April 30th End of semester excitement! Senior events, summer plans, finals tips, and more.
April 19th Achievements galore! NASA Competition Winners, Campus Climate Lab presentations, publications, and more.
April 2nd Earth Month! Earth Day 365 Events, summer jobs, a successful PhD defense, absolutely no pranks, and more.
March 19th Back to school! IGS video, upcoming Earth Day events, summer opportunities, Visualizing Energy, and more.
March 6th Newsletter Returns! Intl Women’s Day Event, Seminar Series, Office Artifacts feature and more.
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Department News
Welcoming Assistant Professor Sasha Kramer to BU Earth & Environment!
Assistant Professor Sasha Kramer studies phytoplankton ecology at scales ranging from ocean waters to satellite observations, aiming to understand how these organisms… More
An interview with our new Director of Graduate Studies (DGS): Associate Professor Jeffrey Geddes!
This summer, Professor Jeffrey Geddes took on the role of Director of Graduate Studies in the Earth & Environment department. We asked… More
Dr. Dan Li and Dr. Libby Barnes Receive American Meteorological Society Recognitions
Congratulations to Dan Li for receiving the Henry, G. Houghton Award from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) for “For foundational contributions to understanding how urbanization… More
Congratulations to Dr. Kai-Ting Hu on a successful PhD dissertation Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Kai-Ting Hu on a successful PhD dissertation Defense! Dr. Hu defended dissertation “Four decades of change in Boreal Forest… More
IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows Present Research
Congratulations to the 2025 IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows on delivering their final research presentations and posters yesterday, concluding a summer of… More
Successful PhD Defense — Congrats Dr. Arden Radford
Congrats to Dr. Arden Radford on a successful PhD Defense on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025! Dr. Radford's dissertation is titled “Modeling and… More
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kelsee Bratley on a successful PhD defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Kelsee Bratley on your successful PhD defense! Dr. Bratley is advised by Curtis Woodcock and her defended dissertation titled… More
Congratulations Dr. Hanfeng Gu on your successful PhD defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Hanfeng Gu! On Thursday, July 10th, 2025, Dr. Gu presented and defended dissertation titled "Time Series Analysis of Remote… More
Dr. Ian Kieffer successfully defends PhD dissertation!
Congratulations to Dr. Ian Kieffer on a successful PhD dissertation defense! Dr. Kieffer's doctoral dissertation is “Essays on the Economics of Decarbonization:… More
Franklin C. Erickson Prize for an outstanding 3rd year student awarded to Tess Shotland!
Every year, Franklin C. Erickson Prize is awarded to an outstanding 3rd year student. This year's winner is Tess Shotland! Tess’s impact… More