Colin Averill wins ESA Biogeosciences publications award
Colin Averill, a faculty member at ETH Zurich, has received the Gene E. Likens Award from the Biogeosciences Section of the Ecological Society of America. The prize recognizes work conducted by an early career scientist; Averill conducted his research as a postdoc with E&E Associate Professor Mike Dietze and Biology Assistant Professor Jennifer Bhatnagar. The […]
Ian Smith wins NSF Grad Research Fellowship
Ian Smith, a Visiting Fellow and incoming PhD student, has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF GRF Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. Ian’s research focuses on the impacts of landscape fragmentation and […]
Lucy Hutyra and Conor Gately urge cities to show climate progress with data
At The Conversation US, Associate Professor Lucy Hutyra and Postdoctoral Associate Conor Gately advocate for pollution documentation in urban areas. “Over the last decade, our work on urban greenhouse gas emissions has shown that with the right combination of instruments, data and modeling techniques, it is possible to independently quantify carbon dioxide and methane emissions […]
Istem Fer, Elizabeth Cowdery, and Mike Dietze publish in Biogeosciences
Postdoc Istem Fer, PhD candidate Elizabeth Cowdery, and Associate Professor Mike Dietze have co-authored “Linking big models to big data: efficient ecosystem model calibration through Bayesian model emulation” in Biogeosciences. “Bayesian methods provide a rigorous data assimilation framework for these applications, especially for problems with multiple data constraints,” the authors note. “However, the Markov chain […]
New Culture of Science Seminar group forming
Come to the planning meeting for an interdisciplinary research and reading group provisionally titled Cultures of Science. We are casting a wide net, including: history of science and medicine, science and technology studies (STS), philosophy of science; Indigenous Traditional Knowledge; medical humanities; literature, sciences and the arts; environmental humanities; bioethics. Faculty, graduate students, and researchers […]