{"id":61,"date":"2019-08-23T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/masters-resources\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:31:22","slug":"masters-handbook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/student-resources\/masters-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Students,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welcome to the Department of Earth &amp; Environment! We\u2019re pleased you\u2019ve chosen to study here, and we welcome you to the community. We\u2019ll do everything we can to make your time here successful. The Department takes great pride in its graduate students and will work with you to help you accomplish your research goals. In return, we expect you to hold your work to the highest possible standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Graduate school can be an extraordinarily rewarding experience. It can also be challenging, confusing, and demanding. We\u2019ve put together this handbook to give you some guidance through Department and Graduate School requirements for your respective Master&#8217;s programs. You should also carefully read the sections of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/grs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Graduate School Bulletin<\/a> to familiar yourself with policies, regulations, and deadlines. Finally, this handbook introduces resources available to you in the Department and at BU. We\u2019ll help make your graduate studies go smoothly, but ultimately you must be responsible for satisfactorily completing the work for your degree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you have questions at any time, please feel free to bring them to us and to the Graduate Program Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/lucy-hutyra\/\">Lucy Hutyra <\/a>, Chair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/jeffrey-geddes\/\">Jeffrey Geddes<\/a>, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/james-g-baldwin\/\">James Baldwin<\/a>, Senior Lecturer and Director of Master\u2019s Programs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-18977\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-636x636.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-768x764.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-1536x1528.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-710x710.png 710w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2023\/03\/EE-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Students, Welcome to the Department of Earth &amp; Environment! We\u2019re pleased you\u2019ve chosen to study here, and we welcome you to the community. We\u2019ll do everything we can to make your time here successful. The Department takes great pride in its graduate students and will work with you to help you accomplish your research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":80,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/22172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}