{"id":1707,"date":"2015-05-22T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1707"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:03:38","slug":"lucy-hutyra","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/lucy-hutyra\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Hutyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Professor Lucy Hutyra joined the Faculty of Earth &amp; Environment at Boston University in 2009. Her areas of specialization include urban climate and biogeochemistry, remote sensing, and vegetation ecology. Trained as a physical scientist, Professor Hutyra&#8217;s research has become ever more focused on the climate and ecology of cities, working at the science-policy interface.\u00a0\u00a0She is a national leader on measuring and modeling urban greenhouse gas fluxes and advancing our understanding of carbon cycling in cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Professor Hutyra has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes, including contributing author on the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 Working Group III Mitigation of Climate Change chapter on Urban and Systems and Other Settlements.\u00a0\u00a0She received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a National Academy of Science Kavli Fellow, and currently serves on the NASA Earth Science Federal Advisory Committee.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beyond scholarly research, Hutyra has focused extensively on graduate education, training students how to apply basic research to advance the livability of our communities.\u00a0\u00a0Professor Hutyra also serves as the Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/\"><span class=\"s2\">BU Biogeosciences Program<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the Associate Director for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/\"><span class=\"s2\">BU URBAN<\/span><\/a>\u00a0interdisciplinary doctoral program.\u00a0\u00a0She is also the Co-Lead for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/campus-climate-lab\/campus-climate-lab-details\/\"><span class=\"s2\">BU Campus Climate Lab<\/span><\/a>, bringing\u00a0sustainability research into practice across the university. During the 2021\u20132022 academic year, Hutyra served as the interim Faculty Director of the Initiative on Cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Professor Hutyra received her BA in Forest Ecology and Management from the University of Washington and her PhD in Earth &amp; Planetary Sciences from Harvard University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/lucy-hutyra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Department of Earth &amp; Environment Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8981,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1707\/revisions\/18945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}