Robert Kaufmann
Robert Kaufmann, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and Professor in the Earth & Environment Department at Boston University, centers his research interests on a range of subjects from land use strategies to oil markets to climate change, and he has extensive knowledge of environmental science and policy. Current projects […]
Magaly Koch
Dr. Magaly Koch, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a remote sensing geologist with 30 years of experience in applied environmental research, including groundwater resources (in drylands), land degradation problems (soil salinization), geohazards and human impact in environmental change. She is particularly interested in projects addressing global water scarcity/flooding […]
Jonathan Levy
Dr. Levy, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), centers his research on urban environmental exposure and health risk modeling, with an emphasis on spatiotemporal exposure patterns and related environmental justice issues. Application areas include air pollution, climate change, and COVID-19. Recent and ongoing research topics include spatial patterns of air […]
Sean Lubner
Sean Lubner, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an assistant professor at Boston University in mechanical engineering and materials science engineering. Before joining BU, Lubner was a research scientist at MIT and a Seaborg Fellow research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in both Mechanical […]
Nathan Phillips
Nathan Phillips, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He is a physiological ecologist who studies land-climate interactions in terrestrial ecosystems and human-dominated environments, including exchanges of energy, water, and greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide exchanged between the air […]
Madeleine Scammell
Madeleine Scammell, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and a JPB Environmental Health Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her expertise is in the area of community-driven and community-based participatory research and includes the […]
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short Gianotti, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Curriculum, Earth & Environment at Boston University where her research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, wildlife management, and urban climate action. Her work investigates how various socio-political and […]
Tawnya Smith
Dr. Tawnya D. Smith, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an interdisciplinary researcher who explores expressive arts principles to promote holistic learning, wellbeing, and sustainability in music education settings. Her current research bridges across trauma and mental health, LGBTQIA+ studies, and ecopsychology and ecojustice informed music learning. Dr. Smith […]
Ian Sue Wing
Ian Sue Wing, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. He conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on climate change and computational general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of economic adjustment […]
Estelle Sun
Estelle Sun, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an associate professor at Questrom School of Business. Her recent work examines the consequences of and firms’ responses to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of extreme weather events on stock prices, disclosures, financial reporting, and auditing, the predictive power of climate […]