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
Yuri Knyazikhin and Ranga Myneni win research projects from NASA’s DSCOVR Program
Professors Yuri Knyazkhin and Ranga Myneni’s proposed research projects were recently selected for three-year funding by NASA under their DSCOVR program. Knyazikhin… More
Chi Chen and Taejin Park publish widely covered article in Nature Sustainability
PhD students Chi Chen and Taejin Park, members of Ranga Myneni and Yuri Knyazikhin’s research group, recently published “China and India lead… More
Suchi Gopal pens editorial for Department of Transportation
Professor Suchi Gopal has written the editorial "The Internet of Things (IoT) for GIS in Transportation" for the newsletter published by the… More
Cutler Cleveland talks to BU Today about Green New Deal
Professor Cutler Cleveland spoke to BU Today about the Green New Deal unveiled by BU alum Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “A 10-year window… More
John Fegyverisi ships off to Antarctica
Adjunct Assistant Professor John Fegyverisi has joined a West Antarctica ocean drilling expedition as a member of the physical properties team, which… More
Ana Reboredo Segovia wins grant for land use change research in Colombia
Ana Reboredo Segovia, a second-year PhD student working with Christoph Nolte, has received a grant from National Geographic Society's Committee for Research… More
Chi Chen receives presentation award at AGU Fall Meeting
PhD candidate Chi Chen has received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from his presentation at December's AGU Fall Meeting. The work, "Local… More
Cutler Cleveland talks to the Globe about carbon neutrality
Professor Cutler Cleveland this week spoke to the Boston Globe about city's aspirations to be carbon neutral within three decades, and the hopes… More
Tony Janetos discusses recent climate assessment at summit
Professor and Chair Tony Janetos was recently featured earlier this month at the Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit, an annual event… More
Christine Regalla publishes on overriding plates in northwestern U.S. subduction zone
Assistant Professor Christine Regalla has published "Ongoing oroclinal bending in the Cascadia forearc and its relation to concave-outboard plate margin geometry" in… More