Michael Dietze

Prof. Dietze is a leader in the field of ecological forecasting and model-data assimilation. He is the Chair and Founding Director of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, the author of Ecological Forecasting, and project lead for the PEcAn terrestrial ecosystem model-data informatics platform. Much of his lab’s research is focused on the terrestrial carbon cycle, natural disturbances, and nature-based climate solutions and he is an Independent Modeling Expert for the Verra greenhouse gas market. Beyond carbon his lab has also worked on near-term forecasts of ticks and their small mammal hosts, forest pests, the soil microbiome, vegetation phenology, and freshwater harmful algal blooms. Dietze is affiliated with the BU Biogeosciences program, URBAN program, Center for Emerging Infectious Disease, Institute for Global Sustainability, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science, and Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.