Michael Dietze, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University. In his talk, titled “Forecasting Ecology in a Changing World,” Prof. […]
Joshua Duclos, a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper titled “Uncomplicating the Idea of Wilderness” in the journal Environmental Values. In the paper, Duclos responds to common empirical, cultural, philosophical, and environmental objections to the idea of “wilderness” in environmental ethics […]
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 a paper related to their Pardee Center research on urban nitrogen deposition. The lead author of the paper was Stephen Decina, formerly […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Les Kaufman (Department of Biology) and Prof. Michael Dietze (Department of Earth & Environment) were featured in a BU Today story about the Trump administration’s recently announced changes to the Endangered Species Act, which allows species to be reclassified from “endangered” to “threatened” far more easily. The changes will also […]
Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a two-day workshop exploring the nitrogen removal capacity of oyster habitats via denitrification. The workshop, convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler, brought together a group of about 30 experts to assess the current state of knowledge […]
Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore the environmental and human health risks from mercury pollution in artisanal and small-scale gold […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the 2019 Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) Conference in Washington, DC, this week. The three-day conference, co-convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Michael Dietze, brought together an interdisciplinary group of over 100 natural and social scientists, public health professionals, engineers, 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 on the effects of “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) policies in China. The paper, titled “Rural household income distribution and inequality in China: Effects of payments for ecosystem services policies and other factors,” was […]
Jim Stodder, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Visiting Professor of the Practice at Metropolitan College, hosted an all-day workshop exploring carbon tax forecasting at the Pardee Center on February 8. A carbon tax has long been viewed as a potentially viable […]
Henrik Selin, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, recently presented his research on mercury and sustainability transitions at the 2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance in the Netherlands. Prof. Selin’s presentation […]