Michael Dietze
Michael Dietze, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), leads the Ecological Forecasting Laboratory, the mission of which is to better understand and predict ecological systems; he is the author of Ecological Forecasting. He is interested in the ways that iterative forecasts, which are continually confronted with new data, can improve […]
Chuanhua Duan
Chuanhua Duan, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at Boston University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the […]
Bahar Erbas
Dr. Bahar Erbas, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Boston University. Her primary research interests are environmental, resource and energy economics, and public economics. Her research particularly focuses on environmental regulations and climate change. Another strand of her work includes […]
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an applied health services researcher with methodological expertise in qualitative, survey, and mixed methods. Her research focuses on children and families, health, the intersections of race/ethnicity and nativity, and the structural and policy factors underpinning these relationships. In particular, […]
M. Patricia Fabian
M. Patricia Fabian, an Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Health and faculty affiliate of the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health. She conducts research and teaching focused on health and environmental health […]
Sergio Fagherazzi
Sergio Fagherazzi, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), studies geomorphology, hydrology, and coastal and marine geology. His research is oriented in three main directions: the morphological modeling of the continental shelf—formation and evolution of riverine networks during sea-level lowstands and subsequent channel filling during highstands; the study of the hydrodynamics […]
Susan Fournier
Susan Fournier, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Allen Questrom Professor, Marketing and Dean of the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. She is the School’s first woman dean and its first academic dean in over 40 years. Susan is in her 28th year as a marketing academic, […]
Mark Friedl
Mark Friedl, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a physical geographer who focuses on interactions among the climate system, terrestrial ecosystems, and humans. Specifically, his research focuses on dynamics in land cover and land surface processes, both human-induced and natural, at local-to-global scales. He use remote sensing, field data, […]
Robinson (“Wally”) Fulweiler
Robinson (“Wally”) Fulweiler, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an ecosystems ecologist and biogeochemist by training. Fulweiler heads a laboratory at Boston University where their research is focused on answering fundamental questions about energy flow and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica), carbon, and oxygen in a […]
Kevin Gallagher
Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he directs the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-relevant research for financial stability, human well-being, and the environment on a […]