2024 Newsletter Issues
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
Welcome! 2024 New Graduate Student Cohort!
On August 30th, our incoming cohort of Earth & Environment graduate students joined us for an orientation session and lunch in CAS… More
Earth & Environment Photo Competition!
Open up your camera rolls, because the E&E Photo Competition has commenced! Any member of our community may participate by submitting a… More
Save the Date! Fall 2024 Graduate Talks
Mark your calendars! Our Fall 2024 Graduate Talk Dates are set! The names of the presenters are soon to come. Food will… More
Professor Ranga Myneni publishes in PLOS ONE
Professor Ranga Myneni of the BU Department of Earth & Environment published a research article titled "Carbon system state determines warming potential… More
BU Institute for Global Sustainability Graduate Summer Fellows Present Research Projects
The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability welcomed Boston University faculty and students as our talented Graduate Student Summer Fellows presented their… More
Professor Robert Kaufmann featured in BU Today
Earth & Environment Professor Robert Kaufmann was featured in the July 15th issue of BU Today to discuss the impact of regulations… More
Associate Professor Dr. Cedric Fichot’s research group publishes in Remote Sensing of Environment and Environmental Science & Technology
Recently graduated PhD student, Dr. Joshua P. Harringmeyer, graduate student Matthew Weiser, research specialist Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric… More
PhD candidate Matthew Weiser and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot publish in ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology
PhD candidate, Matthew Weiser and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot published a paper “Improving Estimates of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Concentration from… More
PhD Student Abby Whittington receives NSF Research Fellowship!
Abby Whittington, PhD student in Cédric Fichot’s lab was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), a prestigious fellowship that… More
Zoe Hughes Promoted to Research Associate Professor!
Congratulations to Zoe Hughes on your well earned promotion to Research Associate Professor! Zoe Hughes is a coastal oceanographer and geomorphologist. Through… More