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Postdoc Kira Sullivan-Wiley Authors Paper on Future Land Use Narratives in Brazil

Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a recent paper presenting a new, interdisciplinary approach using qualitative and quantitative methods to better understand the land-use choices that people make. In the paper, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, the authors introduced the integrated socio-perceptual (ISP) […]

Ecological Forecasting Initiative Launches First NEON Forecast Challenge

The Ecological Forecasting Initiative’s Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN) has announced the launch of the inaugural NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) Ecological Forecast Challenge. The challenge asks participants to make predictions about ecological processes using NEON data prior to its release. The challenge spans five themes: aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial carbon and water fluxes, tick populations, phenology, […]

Pardee Center Hosts Virtual Symposium, “How Democracy Survives: The Crises of the Nation State”

In Conjunction with the Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series, the BU College of General Studies, the Workable World Trust, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning From October 28-30, 2020, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a symposium […]

Dean Adil Najam Interviewed on “The World After Coronavirus” Video Series

 Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam was recently interviewed by Prva TV in Montenegro about the Pardee Center’s video series, “The World After Coronavirus.” In the series, Dean Najam conducted more than 100 interviews with leading experts from Boston University and around the world, exploring the challenges and opportunities we will face […]

Faculty Research Fellow Heidi Peltier Gives Talk on Post-9/11 Military Spending for MIT’s Radius Initiative

Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a talk exploring the impacts of post-9/11 military spending. In the talk, Prof. Peltier drew on her recent research for the Costs of War project to illustrate the scale of post-9/11 U.S. military spending […]

Pardee Center Co-Hosts Webinar on the Future of Clean Energy Markets in the Wake of COVID-19

On October 23, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a webinar titled “Clean Energy Markets in the Wake of COVID-19,” in which panelists discussed the dynamics that will shape clean energy markets in 2021 and beyond. The panel included Robert Kaufmann (Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Professor, Earth […]

Faculty Associate Henrik Selin Co-Authors New Book on Mercury and Sustainability

Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a new book examining efforts to achieve sustainability through the lens of human interactions with mercury throughout history. The book, titled Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability […]

Fulweiler and Ray Co-Author Paper on Denitrification in Oyster Habitats

Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray recently published a paper exploring the impact of oysters on nitrogen cycling in coastal ecosystems in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS). Recent research has focused on quantifying the impact of oyster habitats on biogeochemical cycling in coastal ecosystems, but […]

Visiting Research Fellow Andrea Capurro Featured in National Geographic Documentary on the Antarctic Peninsula

 Andrea Capurro, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently featured in a National Geographic documentary titled “The Antarctic Peninsula.” The documentary is the result of a 2019 expedition by the governments of Argentina and Chile in collaboration with National Geographic Pristine Seas, […]