The Biogeoscience Seminar Series provides a forum for student, postdoc, and faculty interaction to highlight Boston University research and to provide a venue for high profile speakers from beyond BU.
All seminars are held at 3:30-4:30 in CAS 132, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Virtual options are sometimes available.
Fall 2024
September 23: Oliver Sonnentag, University of Montreal
Title: Methane sinks and sources in the Arctic-boreal region: some measurement perspectives from western Canada
Host: Mark Friedl
CAS 132
SPECIAL EVENT to follow -> Fall Social @ BU Pub
October 7: Jim Chen, Northeastern University
Title: Assessing Ecological and Engineering Co-Benefits of Oyster Reef-Based Living Shorelines for Climate Change Adaptation: Efficacy and Limitations
Host: Sergio Fagherazzi
CAS 132
October 15: David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Lab
Title: The Earth in living color: revealing (some) of the dimensions of biodiversity from space with NASA’s new sensors
[Co-sponsored by the Center for Remote Sensing]
CAS 132
October 28: Yi Ming, Boston College
Title: Toward making climate science actionable
Host: Lucy Hutyra
CAS 132
November 4: Elizabeth Kujawinski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title: Developing a new view into the ocean carbon cycle through metabolite analysis
Host: Cedric Fichot
CAS 132
December 2: Melody Lindsay, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Title: Detecting and measuring microbial activity in the deep subsurface: one small step for a cell, one giant low-biomass ecosystem
Host: Jeff Marlow
CAS 132
Spring 2025
March 3: Mara Freilich, Brown University
Title: Ocean circulation and microbial processes mediate the impact of climate extremes on the ocean carbon cycle
Host: Xiaozhou Ruan
CAS 132
March 17: Ethan Deyle, Boston University
Title: Quantitative systems ecology: how causal inference and forecasting can connect community interactions, physical-biological coupling, and resilience
CAS 132
April 14: Ned Friedman, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University
Title: Darwin’s “abominable mystery” and the search for the earliest flowering plants
Host: Pam Templer
CAS 132
April 28: Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University
Title: Picky Eaters: Exploring the selective diet of marine microorganisms in past and present oceans
CAS 132