BU Institute for Global Sustainability Graduate Summer Fellows Present Research Projects
The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability welcomed Boston University faculty and students as our talented Graduate Student Summer Fellows presented their research projects and posters. This event marked the culmination of a busy summer of discovery, collaboration, mentorship, and networking. These scholars have bright futures ahead as they continue to advance knowledge in their […]
Associate Professor Dr. Cedric Fichot’s research group publishes in Remote Sensing of Environment and Environmental Science & Technology
Recently graduated PhD student, Dr. Joshua P. Harringmeyer, graduate student Matthew Weiser, research specialist Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot along with collaborators from Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UMass Dartmouth recently published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. The research paper titled “A hyperspectral view of the nearshore Mississippi River […]
PhD candidate Matthew Weiser and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot publish in ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology
PhD candidate, Matthew Weiser and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot published a paper “Improving Estimates of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Concentration from In Situ Fluorescence Measurements across Estuaries and Coastal Wetlands” in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. This research paper, coauthored by Fichot lab members (Jaydi Swanson, Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh, Dr. Joshua Harringmeyer, […]
PhD Student Abby Whittington receives NSF Research Fellowship!
Abby Whittington, PhD student in Cédric Fichot’s lab was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), a prestigious fellowship that supports graduate students across the nation in a wide variety of scientific fields. Each year, the NSF awards students who they anticipate will become experts in their field and contribute highly to research, […]
Congratulations to Zhenpeng Zuo and Sarah Black – Outstanding Teaching Fellows!
Congratulations to Zhenpeng Zuo and Sarah Black for receiving the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Fellow Awards! Zhenpeng Zuo is a Ph.D. candidate in Earth & Environment working with advisor Ranga Myneni. His research focuses on simulating and predicting forest restoration potential in terms of forest demography and carbon sequestration. Zhenpeng received […]
Yue Qin awarded Outstanding Student Presentation
Yue Qin, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in E&E, has received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award AMS’s 24th Symposium on Boundary-Layers & Turbulence. In “On the logarithmic behavior of streamwise velocity variance in the neutral atmospheric surface laye,” Ms. Qin explores, ” While the mean velocity profile in the near-neutral atmospheric surface layer has been well […]
Professors Suchi Gopal and Nathan Phillips publish with PhD Candidate Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright, PhD candidate in Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth & Environment, has published The BosWash Infrastructure Biome and Energy System Succession in infrastructures with advisor Professor Nathan Phillips and Professor Suchi Gopal. Abstract The BosWash corridor is a megalopolis, or large urbanized region composed of interconnected transportation, infrastructure, physiography, and sociopolitical systems. […]
Professors Suchi Gopal and Magaly Koch publish with MA graduate Mira Kelly-Fair
Mira Kelly-Fair, a recent Master of Arts graduate in Earth & Environment, and incoming PhD student with Professor Suchi Gopal, recently published in MDPI’s open-access journal, Sustainability. The publication, Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Changes through the Lends of SDG’s in Semarang, Indonesia, had various collaborators that included Earth & Environment’s Professor Suchi […]
Collaborating with wildlife: new research finds that wild animals participate in their own preservation
Why do many wildlife conservation and management programs struggle to meet their goals of protecting threatened species and preventing conflicts between humans and wildlife? New research from Boston University, Clark University, and New York University published in “Conservation Biology”, finds that one reason may be how we relate to wild animals in the first place. […]
PhD Candidate Claudia Mazur awarded 2022 ESA Graduate Student Policy Award
PhD candidate Claudia Mazur was awarded the 2022 ESA Graduate Student Policy Award. She is a member of the Fulweiler Lab where she studies the impact of human activities on coastal biogeochemical cycling. The Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award award provides graduate students with the opportunity to participate in a virtual Congressional Visits […]