People
Boston ULTRA-Ex is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project. It’s partners include Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Harvard Forest LTER, the Arnold Arboretum, the City of Boston, and other organizations.
Project Participants
Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.
Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.
Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.
Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and Director of Graduate Studies in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University.
Steve Raciti
Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.
Curtis Woodcock
Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.
Crystal Schaaf
Professor of Remote Sensing, Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences at University of Massachusetts Boston.
Michael Gevelber
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University.
Linda Grosser
Executive Director of Boston University’s Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative.
Allison Dunn
Assistant Professor of Physical Geography at Worcester State University at Worcester, MA
David Kittredge
Professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Undergraduate, Graduate and Ph.D. Students Involved
Valerie Pasquarella
PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Research focuses on spatial technologies and visualization techniques.
Margaret Hendrick
Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Research Interests include global change, urban ecology, adaptation.
Brittain Briber
Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Research focuses on atmospheric variations in CO2 across Boston’s urbanization gradient and identifying trends in carbon dioxide concentrations.
Preeti Rao
PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Research focuses on the influence of urbanization on ecosystems.
PhD student in Earth and Environment at Boston University. Research includes land cover and use changes, remote sensing of forests, and using GIS for conservation.
Rachel Nalepa
Ph.D student in Earth and Environment Department at Boston University. Research Focus: Distributional impacts of large-scale land concessions in developing countries
Jared Newell
graduated with master’s from Earth and Environment specializing in GIS and Remote Sensing (07-10). Created remote sensing products of urban tree canopy, vegetative biomass/carbon stocks using high-resolution remotely sensed data.
