Laura Schifman is a hydrologist with a research background in urban soils and urban green infrastructure, with a specific interest in stormwater management and its impacts on ecological and environmental health. In her role as Program Coordinator for the Urban Climate Initiative, Laura organizes symposia and workshops and creates and manages program resources. Laura also manages the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health, an interdisciplinary traineeship at Boston University.
Prior to her position at BU, Laura was an NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Risk Management Research Laboratory at U.S. EPA in Cincinnati, OH. There she evaluated how green spaces in urban areas provide regulating ecosystem services. She is also the co-founder of the science communication site envirobites.org and is chair of the Women-Water Nexus, a group of women engineers and scientists part of ASCE-EWRI who are focused on empowering women in the water sector.