2025 Newsletter Issues
November 12th Events, Achievements, Opportunities, and more!
October 28th Spooky Scary Climate Change! Events, opportunities, UROP achievements, and more!
October 15th Autumn Events! Field trips, opportunities, career fair recap, and more!
September 30th Nearly October! Events, publications, fun, and more!
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.
Newsletter Archive
Department News
Lucy Hutyra & Dan Li’s project funded by NSF
Dr. Lucy Hutyra and Dr. Dan Li received a PREEVENTS project funded by NSF on urban heat waves. PREEVENTS is the Prediction… More
Sergio Fagherazzi gets a press release from NBC
Dr. Sergio Fagherazzi likens Venice to a "canary in a coalmine," in NBC's article profiling the recent flooding in the iconic city,… More
Pontus Olofsson publishes paper in Remote Sensing of Environment
The paper addresses issues that have been encountered when reporting within international frameworks aimed climate change mitigation by reducing deforestation and forest… More
Kathryn Wheeler and Michael Dietze publish a paper in Remote Sensing
Kathryn Wheeler recently published a paper with her advisor, Michael Dietze. Read the paper here: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/21/2507 More
Rick Reibstein and Josh Taylor interviewed by WGBH
In 2018 students of the class "Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations" wrote to every municipality in Massachusetts to find out what… More
Pontus Olofsson is awarded a second NASA grant during Fall 2019
Pontus Olofsson has been awarded a research grant from NASA SERVIR. SERVIR is a joint venture between NASA and the U.S.… More
Students in Research Class Present at the Massachusetts Green Careers Conference
At the Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in Westborough, MA, on September 20, Alana Danison and Madeleine Mattson participated in Rick… More
Ranga Myneni publishes several articles during the summer of 2019
(1) “Investigating the applicability of Emergent Constraints” published in the journal “Earth System Dynamics” (doi:10.5194/esd-10-501-2019). The article discusses how a measurable variable… More
Pontus Olofsson is awarded funding from NASA
Pontus Olofsson, with Co-investigators Alessandro Baccini, Lucy Hutyra and Curtis Woodcock, has been awarded a research grant from the NASA Carbon Monitoring… More
Rachel Abercrombie publishes an article in Nature News & Views
Research Associate Professor Rachel E. Abercrombie published an article in Nature News and Views. Rachel Abercrombie investigates all aspects of the earthquake… More