Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Lucy Hutyra, Prof. Dan Li, and Prof. Pamela Templer recently co-authored a paper exploring the effects of increasing urban tree canopy cover as a nature-based solution to combat excess urban heat. Trees provide a wide range of ecosystem services, particularly in cities where their ability to cool local air […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Dan Li and Prof. Lucy Hutyra were recently awarded a $650,000 National Science Foundation grant to study land-atmosphere feedbacks over urban areas experiencing heat waves, and the impacts of heat waves on natural systems and human activities in urban areas. The grant was awarded through NSF’s Prediction of and […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper exploring an approach to detect expanding impervious surfaces, such as rooftops, roads, and sidewalks, in Nanchang, China. The paper, titled “An efficient approach to capture continuous impervious surface dynamics using spatial-temporal rules and dense Landsat time series […]
The world’s river basins and coastal cities are directly influenced by the people who live, work, and play on the water and in the surrounding landscapes. This session will feature brief presentations by BU faculty whose research focuses on some aspect of the interactions between people and waterways and coastal cities in various geographies. From […]
Air pollution is a global problem that harms the lives of millions of people. The Initiative on Cities, the Department of Environmental Health, and the Pardee Center welcome to campus Iyad Kheirbek, Head of Air Quality for C40 Cities, where he will discuss urban air quality initiatives in two settings: New York City and C40 […]
The Boston University Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health invites you to attend its Spring Symposium on April 25 from 2:30-4:30 pm in BRB 113, 5 Cummington Mall. The Symposium will feature a series of lightning talks (see below) by BU faculty on a wide range of urban research themes in water, air, climate, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a presentation and discussion about a new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, titled Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda. The report, released in January, is intended to serve as a guide for the direction of research on sustainable urban systems in coming decades in […]
Lucy Hutyra and Pamela Templer, Professors in the Departments of Earth & Environment and Biology, respectively, and Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored two papers related to their Pardee Center research on urban nitrogen deposition. The lead author of both papers, Stephen Decina […]
A new National Science Foundation (NSF) report released today establishes a research agenda for sustainable urban systems in coming decades. The report, titled Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda, is intended to serve as a guide for the direction of research on cities in the face of unprecedented urbanization. Fewer than one-third of the world’s population […]
Andrew Trlica, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the first author on a recent paper titled “Albedo, Land Cover, and Daytime Surface Temperature Variation Across an Urbanized Landscape” published in the journal […]