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 […]
Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Biology Department and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) grant. The NRT program awarded a total of $51 million across 17 projects to “develop and implement bold, new, […]
The Graduate Summer Fellows recently had a lunch discussion with Jennifer Weeks, the Environment and Energy Editor at The Conversation, a non-profit online publication featuring articles written by academics and intended for the general public. Weeks gave an overview of the origin of The Conversation, which began in Australia and now has editions in Africa, Canada, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar with Prof. Michael Dietze, an associate professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, where he will discuss his new book, “Ecological Forecasting” from Princeton University Press. The seminar will be held at the Pardee Center at […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a seminar lecture and discussion with Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow. In her talk, Prof. Templer explored the implications of nitrogen deposition and carbon dioxide losses from soil respiration in […]
Prof. Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article that will be published in the journal Ecohydrology. The article, titled “Fisheries and Water Level Fluctuations in the World’s Largest Desert Lake,” explores how the fisheries of Lake Turkana in Kenya — which […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9. Approximately 100 people attended the one-day conference that featured presentations by Boston University faculty with a diverse range of expertise on their research related to sustainability issues (a full list of presenters can be […]
Session I: Measuring Sustainability Session II: Modeling Sustainability Session III: Human Dimensions of Sustainability Session IV: Future of Sustainability Please join us for the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at the Boston University Photonics Building at 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th floor. This one-day conference […]
Sir Robert Tony Watson, the world’s leading authority on integrated scientific assessments, discussed his experiences over the past 30 years and his views on the future of such assessments when he delivered the 2016 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the Metcalf Trustee Center on April 11. The event was sponsored by the Frederick S. […]
France’s Special Representative to the Paris climate change talks last December spoke publicly for the first time on Feb. 8 at Boston University about what it took to orchestrate both the two-week long climate change negotiation session and the agreement that came out of it. Ambassador Laurence Tubiana was the featured speaker at the event […]