World Class Research. Stellar Faculty.
See below for a small selection of recent faculty publications. Follow the links to see co-authors, including many current and recent students and postdocs, and to read full articles.
2024
Longshore Sediment Transport Across a Tombolo Determined by Two Adjacent Circulation Cells
BU Authors: Danghan Xie, Zoe Hughes, Duncan FitzGerald, Silke Tas, Tansir Zaman Asik, Sergio Fagherazzi
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Capturing the Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Tidal Saltmarsh Estuaries Using Remote-Sensing-Informed Models
BU Authors: Aylin Tuzcu Kokal, Joshua P. Harringmeyer, Olivia Cronin-Golomb, Matthew W. Weiser, Jiyeong Hong, Nilotpal Ghosh, Jaydi Swanson, Xiaohui Zhu, Cédric G. Fichot
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
“Our town is dying:“ Exploring utility-scale and rooftop solar energy injustices in Southeastern California
BU Authors: Alexander A. Dunlap, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Bojana Novakovic
Journal: Geoforum
Revisiting the consistency of MODIS LAI products from a new perspective of spatiotemporal variability
BU Authors: Jiabin Pu, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga B. Myneni
Journal: International Journal of Digital Earth
Evapotranspiration and Rainfall Effects on Post‐Storm Salinization of Coastal Forests: Soil Characteristics as Important Factor for Salt‐Intolerant Tree Survival
BU Authors: Giovanna Nordio, Sergio Fagherazzi
Journal: Water Resources Research
The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future
BU Authors: Benjamin Sovacool
Journal: Nature Reviews Physics
Overestimation of Mangroves Deterioration From Sea Level Rise in Tropical Deltas
BU Authors: Sergio Fagherazzi
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
The impact of the 2023-2024 drought on intact Amazon forests’ productivity
BU Author: Michael Dietze
Journal: Research Square
The apparent quantum yield matrix (AQY-M) of CDOM photobleaching in estuarine, coastal, and oceanic surface waters
BU Authors: Xiaohui Zhu, Matthew W Weiser, Joshua P Harringmeyer
Journal: Science of the Total Environment
A hyperspectral view of the nearshore Mississippi River Delta: Characterizing suspended particles in coastal wetlands using imaging spectroscopy
BU Authors: Joshua P Harringmeyer, Nilotpal Ghosh, Matthew W Weiser, Cedric G Fichot
Journal: Remote Sensing of the Environment
Improving Estimates of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Concentration from In Situ Fluorescence Measurements across Estuaries and Coastal Wetlands!
BU Author: Matthew W. Weiserm, Jaydi Swanson, Nilotpal Ghosh, Jiyeong Hong, Joshua P. Harringmeyer, Cédric G. Fichot
Journal: Environmental Science and Technology
Where are light-duty electric vehicles the most popular?
BU Author: Cutler Cleveland
Website: Visualizing Energy
Solutions and insights for agricultural monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) from three consecutive issuances of soil carbon credits
BU Author: Mark A Friedl
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management
Energy Justice and Equity: Applying a Critical Perspective to the Electrical Power Grid for a More Just Transition in the United States
BU Author: Benjamin K Sovacool
Journal: IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Estimating the expansion and reduction of agricultural extent in Egypt using Landsat time series
BU Author: Kelsee H. Bratley, Curtis E. Woodcock
Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2023
- Andrew Bell, “Financial incentives often fail to reconcile agricultural productivity and pro-conservation behavior,” Nature.
- Sergio Fagherazzi, “Recovery of salt marsh vegetation after ice-rafting,” Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Cédric Fichot, “Remote sensing of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) stocks, fluxes and transformations along the land-ocean aquatic continuum: advances, challenges, and opportunities,” Earth-Science Reviews.
2022
- Andrew Bell, “Crafting spaces for good water governance in Pakistan,” Water Resources Research.
- Michael Dietze, “A Seismic Approach to Flood Detection and Characterization in Upland Catchments,” Geophysical Research Letters.
- Michael Dietze, “More than heavy rain turning into fast-flowing water – a landscape perspective on the 2021 Eifel floods,” Natural Hazards and Earth System Science
- Michael Dietze, “Sandbox – creating and analysing synthetic sediment sections with R,” Geochronolgy.
- Sergio Fagherazzi, “Groundwater, soil moisture, light and weather data collected in a coastal forest bordering a salt marsh in the Delmarva Peninsula (VA),” Data in Brief.
2021
- Andrew Bell, “From Mario Kart to pro-poor environmental governance,” Nature.
- Andrew Bell, “How high frequency food diaries can transform understanding of food security,” Environmental Research Letters.
- Andrew Bell, “Migration towards Bangladesh coastlines projected to increase with sea-level rise through 2100,” Environmental Research Letters.
- Cutler Cleveland, “Enhancing energy, climate, and environmental (data) justice in Boston,” BU Knowledge Series
- Michael Dietze, “A community convention for ecological forecasting: output files and metadata,” EcoEvoRxix.
2020
- Michael Dietze, “Cutting out the middleman: Calibrating and validating a dynamic vegetation model (ED2-PROSPECT5) using remotely sensed surface reflectance,” Geoscientific Model Development
- Cédric Fichot, “Simple method to determine the apparent quantum yield matrix of CDOM photobleaching in natural waters,” Environmental Science & Technology
- Duncan FitzGerald, “Comparative morphosedimentary framework of small subtropical islands offshore Kuwait,” Marine Biology
- Robinson Fulweiler, “Response to concerns and uncertainties relating to methane emissions synthesis for vegetated coastal ecosystems,” Global Change Biology
- Sergio Fagherazzi, “Improving predictions of salt marsh evolution through better integration of data and models,” Annual Review of Marine Science
- Robinson Fulweiler, “Rebuilding marine life,” Nature
- Sergio Fagherazzi, “Dynamics of marsh‐derived sediments in lagoon‐type estuaries,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Science
- Michael Dietze, “Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration,” Global Change Biology
- Mark Friedl, “Continental-scale land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery,” Remote Sensing of Environment
- Jeffrey Geddes, “Observing Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Inequality Using High-Spatial-Resolution Remote Sensing Measurements in Houston, Texas,” Environmental Science & Technology
- Sucharita Gopal, “Leveraging Big Data and Analytics to Improve Food, Energy, and Water System Sustainability,” Frontiers in Big Data
- Lucy Hutyra, “A tree-planting decision support tool for urban heat mitigation,” PLOS ONE
- Robert Kaufmann, “Evaluating trends in time series of distributions: A spatial fingerprint of human effects on climate,” Journal of Econometrics
- Dan Li. “Diurnal climatology of planetary boundary layer height over the contiguous United States derived from AMDAR and reanalysis data,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- Ranga Myneni, “Spatial and temporal variations in global soil respiration and their relationships with climate and land cover,” Science Advances
- Christoph Nolte, “Allocating resources for land protection using continuous optimization: biodiversity conservation in the United States,” Ecological Applications
- Nathan Phillips, “Growing‐season warming and winter soil freeze/thaw cycles increase transpiration in a northern hardwood forest,” Ecology
- Guido Salvucci, “Water sources for red maple trees in a northern hardwood forest under a changing climate,” Ecohydrology
- Ian Sue Wing, “Economic consequence analysis of electric power infrastructure disruptions: General equilibrium approaches,” Energy Economics
- Curtis Woodcock, “Can VIIRS continue the legacy of MODIS for near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbance?” Remote Sensing of Environment
2019
- Robinson Fulweiler, “Estuarine sediments exhibit dynamic and variable biogeochemical responses to hypoxia,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
- Rachel Abercrombie, “Small and large earthquakes can have similar starts,” Nature
- Jeffrey Geddes, “Observing severe drought influences on ozone air pollution in California,” Environmental Science & Technology
- Cédric Fichot, “Assessing change in the overturning behavior of the Laurentian Great Lakes using remotely sensed lake surface water temperatures,” Remote Sensing of Environment
- Mark Friedl, “Long-term continuity in land surface phenology measurements: Acomparative assessment of the MODIS land cover dynamics and VIIRS landsurface phenology products,” Remote Sensing of Environment
- Christoph Nolte, “Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural‐urban landscape,” Conservation Letters
- Dan Li, “Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?” Science Advances
- Robert Kaufmann, “The effect of oil and gas price and price volatility on rig activity in tight formations and OPEC strategy,” Nature Energy
- Cédric Fichot, “A climate-driven doubling of turbidity in Siling Lake (Tibetan Plateau) over the past two decades,” Science of the Total Environment
- Robinson Fulweiler, “Low greenhouse gas emissions from oyster aquaculture,” Environmental Science and Technology
- Mark Friedl, “Hierarchical mapping of annual global land cover 2001 to present: The MODIS Collection 6 Land Cover product,” Remote Sensing of the Environment
- Ranga Myneni, “Earth system models underestimate carbon fixation by plants in the high latitudes,” Nature Communications
- Ranga Myneni, “China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management,” Nature Sustainability
- Cédric Fichot, “Improving the transferability of suspended solid estimation in wetland and Deltaic waters with an empirical hyperspectral approach,” Remote Sensing
- Cédric Fichot, “A unified approach to estimate land and water reflectances with uncertainties for coastal imaging spectroscopy,” Remote Sensing of Environment
- Ranga Myneni, “Earth system models underestimate carbon fixation by plants in the high latitudes,” Nature Communications
- Ranga Myneni, “Constraints to Vegetation Growth Reduced by Region-Specific Changes in Seasonal Climate,” Climate
2018
2018
- Cédric Fichot, “Dynamics of finely resolved, abundant symbiotic marine plankton and other interacting microbes via automated high-frequency sampling,” ISME journal
- Jeffrey Geddes, “Stratosphere-troposphere separation of nitrogen dioxide columns from the TEMPO geostationary satellite instrument,” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
- Cédric Fichot, “Reviews and syntheses: Carbonyl sulfide as a multi-scale tracer for carbon and water cycles,” Biogeoscience
- Suchi Gopal, James Baldwin, “Fueling Global Energy Finance: The Emergence of China in Global Energy Investment,” Energies
- Dan Li, “Turbulent Prandtl number in the atmospheric boundary layer – where are we now?” Atmospheric Research
- Michael Dietze, “Linking big models to big data: efficient ecosystem model calibration through Bayesian model emulation,” Biogeosciences
- Cédric Fichot, “Pan-Arctic distribution of bioavailable dissolved organic matter and linkages with productivity in ocean margins,” Geophysical Research Letters
- Ranga Myneni, “Generating global products of LAI and FPAR from SNPP-VIIRS data: Theoretical background and Implementation,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Christoph Nolte, “The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation,” Nature Climate Change
- Robert Buchwaldt, “New CA-TIMS dates from the Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation, Western Colorado, USA: Implication for Rates of Sedimentation and Dinosaur Evolution,” Geological Journal
- Ranga Myneni, “Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering,” Nature Sustainability
- Cédric Fichot, “Remote sensing retrievals of colored dissolved organic matter and dissolved organic carbon dynamics in North American estuaries and their margins,” Remote Sensing of the Environment
- Ranga Myneni, “Velocity of change in vegetation productivity over northern high latitudes,” Nature Ecology and Evolution
- Michael Dietze, “Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges,” PNAS
- Nathan Phillips, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga Myneni, “Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink,” Nature Communications
- Ranga Myneni,“Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite,” Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Ranga Myneni, “Lower land-use emissions responsible for increased net land carbon sink during the slow warming period,” Nature Geoscience
- Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga Myneni,“Analysis of Global LAI/FPAR Products from VIIRS and MODIS Sensors for Spatio-Temporal Consistency and Uncertainty from 2012–2016,” Forests