Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article exploring historical examples of “blue growth”—a concept akin to the “green economy” that promotes sustainable ocean management—in The Brink. The article follows the publication of a major study in the journal Fish and Fisheries in […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will develop research papers to be considered for the Pardee Center’s publication series while participating in remote programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. On the first […]
Pablo Suarez, a Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellow and Associate Director for Research and Innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, recently designed and facilitated a “cartoonathon” exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on the future of humanitarian work. The event, hosted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Solferino Academy, included over […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Microsoft AI for Earth grant as principal investigator to support his research on monitoring the dynamics of cropping cycles using long-term satellite imagery. Increasing the frequency of crop harvests can be a climate-friendly means of […]
Ian Sue Wing, a Faculty Associate and, from 2015-2018, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been promoted to the rank of full professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. Prof. Sue Wing was one of 19 Charles River Campus faculty promoted to full professor. […]
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, recently authored an article published in The Conversation on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability to conduct field work. In the article, Prof. Primack reflects on the necessary yet costly measures […]
Prof. Suchi Gopal and Prof. Les Kaufman, Faculty Associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a new paper on the application of big data science to improve food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) sustainability. In the paper, published in the journal Frontiers in Big Data, the authors present a […]
Kate Mitchell, a doctoral candidate at the BU School of Public Health and a 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on maternal newborn health (MNH) care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic in the journal Health and Human Rights. In the article, the […]
Henrik Selin, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been appointed the new Associate Dean of Studies at the Pardee School of Global Studies. In this role, Prof. Selin will be responsible for all student affairs and services, including both the graduate and undergraduate programs at […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate, and Eliza Garfield, a 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, are among the co-authors of a new analysis of coral reef restoration projects in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary published in the journal PLOS ONE. Since the 1970s, staghorn coral […]