{"id":19491,"date":"2024-12-02T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:15:51","slug":"newly-funded-bu-campus-climate-lab-projects-announced-for-fall-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2024\/12\/02\/newly-funded-bu-campus-climate-lab-projects-announced-for-fall-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Newly Funded BU Campus Climate Lab Projects for Fall 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fall, Boston University (BU) Institute for Global Sustainability, in partnership with BU Sustainability and BU Office of Research, awarded funding for two new Campus Climate Lab projects<\/a> to reduce electricity usage on campus and explore Nature-based Solutions to build climate change resilience. Funding was also provided to <\/span>three continuing projects on classroom air quality, building energy storage, and microplastic emission reduction.<\/p>\n

Through Campus Climate Lab, student-mentor teams use BU\u2019s campuses as a living laboratory for exploring climate action, advancing equity and justice through sustainability research, and developing innovative solutions to support the goals of BU\u2019s Climate Action Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since launching in 2020, Campus Climate Lab has provided a total of $360,000<\/strong> to <\/span>44<\/strong> teams. This season’s awardees include faculty, students, and staff from the College of Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer Engineering), the College of Arts & Sciences (Earth & Environment and Physics), and the Pardee School of Global Studies (International Relations).<\/span><\/p>\n

Explore<\/a> current and past Campus Climate Lab projects and apply for funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Campus Climate Lab by the Numbers | Fall 2024<\/b><\/h4>\n

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Campus Climate Lab Project Goals | Fall 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Buildings and Operations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Deploy 20 newly designed, low-cost air quality sensors to monitor classroom environments in real time and gather feedback to support recommendations for improved air quality and energy efficiency<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Analyze thermal and electric storage solutions for all-electric buildings, such as the Center for Computing and Data Sciences (CDS), and their effects on energy demand and costs
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    \nClimate and Health<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    • Address BU vulnerability to climate change and support sustainable urban development by identifying Nature-based Solutions to enhance resilience and provide benefits such as heat reduction and improved social cohesion (NEW)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      \nReducing Waste<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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      • Investigate microplastic emissions from BU laundry facilities to develop high-throughput filtering solutions tailored to BU’s needs and create an actionable plan to eliminate microplastics from laundry wastewater<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Install electrical meters and engage with communities in select residences to reduce electricity usage during peak demand periods and provide insights for scaling these practices across BU facilities (NEW)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Through Campus Climate Lab, student-mentor teams use BU\u2019s campuses as a living laboratory for exploring climate action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23369,"featured_media":21890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[712,332],"tags":[556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}