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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, authored an article for The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft exploring the environmental costs of recently proposed increases in military spending to “enhance U.S. deterrence of China.” In the article, Prof. Peltier reflects on the financial […]
Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper on the politics and social movements surrounding coal-based development in the Philippines for the journal World Development. The paper focuses specifically on a proposed coal mine on Indigenous land in the Province […]