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
PhD student Chi Chen co-authors article on 2015/16 ENSO event impacts to the carbon cycle
PhD student Chi Chen (advised by Ranga Myneni) contributed to a recently published article on the impacts of 2015/16 El Niño event… More
E&E major Emma Quirk rows for BU
Emma Quirk, an Earth & Environmental Science major and senior, joins the Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend with BU's Rowing… More
Yasmin Romitti contributes to NAS report on carbon dioxide removal and sequestration
First-year PhD student Yasmin Romitti has collaborated with the National Academy of Sciences to develop a research agenda for dealing carbon dioxide… More
Suchi Gopal and James Baldwin publish on Chinese global energy investment
Professor Suchi Gopal, Lecturer James Baldwin, and Kevin Gallagher of BU's Global Development Policy Center have penned "Fueling Global Energy Finance: The… More
John Fegyveresi publishes on ice core bubbles as strain indicators
Adjunct Assistant Professor John Fegyveresi and his colleagues have penned "Instruments and methods: a case study of ice core bubbles as strain… More
Rick Murray elected to AGU Board of Directors
Professor Rick Murray has been elected to a two-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Geophysical… More
Dan Li publishes on atmospheric boundary layer in Atmospheric Research
Assistant Professor Dan Li has published a single-author, invited review article titled "Turbulent Prandtl number in the atmospheric boundary layer - where… More
Istem Fer, Elizabeth Cowdery, and Mike Dietze publish in Biogeosciences
Postdoc Istem Fer, PhD candidate Elizabeth Cowdery, and Associate Professor Mike Dietze have co-authored "Linking big models to big data: efficient ecosystem… More
Sergio Fagherazzi and Cédric Fichot join the newly funded NASA Delta-X team to study the future of the Mississippi delta
Professor Sergio Fagherazzi and Assistant Professor Cédric Fichot have joined the Delta-X investigation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to… More
Wally Fulweiler to speak about discovering the unknown at Radcliffe Institute
Associate Professor Wally Fulweiler will join The Undiscovered, a Radcliffe Institute science symposium that will focus on how scientists explore realities they cannot… More