Richard Deese
Richard Samuel Deese, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Senior Lecturer for the Division of Social Sciences in the College of General Studies and at Boston University. He grew up in Claremont, California, and studied history at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Oregon, and […]
David Demeritt
David Demeritt, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK. Demeritt is a geographer best known for his ability to bridge the discipline’s human-physical divide. His research focuses on environmental policy, in particular the management of flooding, wildfire and […]
Ethan Deyle
Ethan Deyle, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is foremost a quantitative marine ecologist, exploring ecological questions on a spectrum from theoretical to imminently practical through a common language of nonlinear mathematics. His career as a scientist can be thought of as a dialectic between a love for abstract investigation […]
Mariette DiChristina
Mariette DiChristina, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Dean of Boston University’s College of Communication and a professor of the practice in journalism. Before arriving at BU in 2019, DiChristina was the first female editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Scientific American, as well as executive vice president, Magazines […]
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
Patricia Fabian, an Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Environmental Health at the School of Public Health. She founded the Sustainable Built Environment Lab, which conducts research on extreme heat resilience in cities, indoor air quality in schools and homes, and energy transitions in the built […]
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 […]