Find session slides, video recordings, and other materials from past events related to research on the environment, and sustainability.
Research on Tap: Understanding and Improving our Urban Climate (2019)
Hosted by Lucy Hutyra, Co-Director, Urban Climate Research Initiative, and Associate Professor, Earth & Environment, CAS; and Patrick Kinney, Co-Director, Urban Climate Research Initiative, and Beverly A. Brown Professor for the Improvement of Urban Health, Environmental Health, SPH By mid-century, seven of every ten people are projected to reside in an urban area. The concentration […]
Research on Tap: Understanding and Forecasting Change in Our Natural World (2018)
Hosted by Michael Dietze, Associate Professor, Earth & Environment, CAS As society increasingly faces unprecedented environmental challenges, ecologists are being asked to provide the best available scientific information about future events. The field of ecological forecasting connects data and models to project our current understanding of ecological processes into new places and times. Attend this […]
Research on Tap: BU Research on a Sustainable Energy Future (2016)
Hosted by Peter Fox-Penner, Professor of the Practice, Questrom School of Business. As demonstrated by the recent Paris Climate Conference, global energy systems face a massive challenge in shifting away from unsustainable carbon-emitting fuels to sustainable sources, while serving the energy and development needs of a planet whose population will reach ten billion before the […]
Research on Tap: Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment (2015)
Hosted by Graham Wilson, Professor, Political Science, and Director, Initiative on Cities; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities. This session explored research currently conducted by faculty across the University who are studying cities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach, evaluating complex challenges from the perspective of law, environment, engineering, management, cultural studies, medicine, […]