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Our mission: to understand a changing Earth, its relationships with humankind, and to develop strategies for a sustainable future. A central, overarching theme in the department is climate science, which represents the defining and unifying earth and environmental science issue of the 21st century. The coupled natural and human dimensions of climate change infuse our research, whether that may be in the form of climate reconstructions from marine and terrestrial archives; predicting regional climate variability from the analysis of historical data and modeling; understanding the impacts of climate change on nutrient cycling, plant communities, and the biogeochemistry of natural and urban ecosystems; predicting the consequences of climate-change mitigation and adaptation for energy markets; or assessing climate change risks on agriculture and the implications for regional food security, among many other active areas of research.
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Department chair: Dave R. Marchant
Campus address: 685 Commonwealth Avenue
Phone: 617-353-2532
Fax: 617-353-3290
Website: www.bu.edu/earth/
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Data and code for: Feedbacks among electric vehicle adoption, charging, and the cost and installation of rooftop solar
(2020-10)Identifying feedback loops in consumer behaviors is important to develop policies to accentuate desired behavior. Here, we use Granger causality to provide empirical evidence for feedback loops among four important components ... -
Data for: Understanding glacial cycles: a multivariate disequilibrium approach
(2020)We find a consistent relation between orbital geometry and components of the climate system by returning to Milankovitch’s original hypothesis and focusing on the well-established physical concepts of an equilibrium state, ... -
Pre-filed testimony in support of the ten persons group by Nathan G. Phillips
(MassDEP file room, 2019-05-25)I have two interrelated technical concerns with the Enbridge Model used by MassDEP to grant the air permit for the proposed Weymouth, which invalidate the air permit. I state these immediately below and elaborate on them ... -
Evaluation of neural network pattern classifiers for a remote sensing application
(1995)This paper evaluates the classification accuracy of three neural network classifiers on a satellite image-based pattern classification problem. The neural network classifiers used include two types of the Multi-Layer-Perceptron ... -
Seeing the invisible: from imagined to virtual urban landscapes
(Elsevier BV, 2020-03)Urban ecosystems consist of infrastructure features working together to provide services for inhabitants. Infrastructure functions akin to an ecosystem, having dynamic relationships and interdependencies. However, with ... -
Effects of warming temperatures on winning times in the Boston Marathon
(PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2012-09-26)It is not known whether global warming will affect winning times in endurance events, and counterbalance improvements in race performances that have occurred over the past century. We examined a time series (1933–2004) ... -
Characterizing the spatial determinants and prevention of malaria in Kenya
(2019-12-12)The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3 is to ensure health and well-being for all at all ages with a specific target to end malaria by 2030. Aligned with this goal, the primary objective of this study is to ... -
Soil warming accelerates biogeochemical silica cycling in a temperate forest
(2019)Biological cycling of silica plays an important role in terrestrial primary production. Soil warming stemming from climate change can alter the cycling of elements, such as carbon and nitrogen, in forested ecosystems. ... -
Geographically weighted regression models in estimating median home prices in towns of Massachusetts based on an urban sustainability framework
(MDPI, 2018-04-01)Housing is a key component of urban sustainability. The objective of this study was to assess the significance of key spatial determinants of median home price in towns in Massachusetts that impact sustainable growth. Our ... -
Characterizing urban landscapes using fuzzy sets
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2016-05-01)Characterizing urban landscapes is important given the present and future projections of global population that favor urban growth. The definition of “urban” on a thematic map has proven to be problematic since urban areas ...
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