Faculty Research Fellow Richard Primack to Deliver University Lecture

Richard Primack, a Professor of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will deliver the University Lecture on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Tsai Performance Center. The lecture is titled “Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods,” based on his 2014 book of the same title.

Since 1950, the annual University Lecture has featured distinguished faculty from a wide range of disciplines sharing their research with the rest of the Boston University community and the general public.

Prof. Primack’s work over the course of his career has focused on plant ecology, conservation biology, and tropical rainforests around the world, and he is currently researching the effects of climate change on the plants, birds, and insects of Massachusetts. As a Faculty Research Fellow at the Pardee Center, he is establishing a working group of researchers from BU and neighboring institutions on Leaf Emergence and Fall (LEaF) — the seasonal shifts in leaves emerging in spring and falling in autumn — which affects ecological relationships, ecosystem processes, and economic activities, and, in turn, policies regarding forestry, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and economic planning.

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