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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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Pan-Arctic distribution of bioavailable dissolved organic matter and linkages with productivity in ocean margins
Rapid environmental changes in the Arctic Ocean affect plankton productivity and the bioavailability of dissolved organic matter (DOM) that supports microbial food webs. We report concentrations of dissolved organic carbon ... -
Monitoring vegetation dynamics from lunar orbiting satellites
(2018-02-27)FUNCTION STATEMENT: Our analyses are based on data from Terra MISR/MODIS, Aqua MODIS, DSCIVR EPIC and EO-1 Hyperion sensors. Science questions as identified in NASA’s Science Plan: Detect and predict changes in Earth’s ... -
Earth system data record from DSCOVR EPIC observations: product description and analyses
(2018-12-13)The NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission was launched on February 11, 2015 to the Sun-Earth Lagrangian L1 point where it began to collect radiance ... -
Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-08-09)Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades. However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and dynamics of forests. Using systematic sampling ... -
Generating global products of LAI and FPAR from SNPP-VIIRS data: theoretical background and implementation
Leaf area index (LAI) and fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) absorbed by vegetation have been successfully generated from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data since early 2000. ... -
Earth observations from DSCOVR EPIC instrument
(Amer Meteorological Soc, 2018-09-01)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft was launched on 11 February 2015 and in June 2015 achieved its orbit at the first Lagrange point (L1), 1.5 million ... -
Influence of leaf specular reflection on canopy radiative regime using an improved version of the stochastic radiative transfer model
(MDPI, 2018-10-01)Interpreting remotely-sensed data requires realistic, but simple, models of radiative transfer that occurs within a vegetation canopy. In this paper, an improved version of the stochastic radiative transfer model (SRTM) ... -
An interplay between photons, canopy structure, and recollision probability: a review of the spectral invariants theory of 3D canopy radiative transfer processes
(MDPI, 2018-11-01)Earth observations collected by remote sensors provide unique information to our ever-growing knowledge of the terrestrial biosphere. Yet, retrieving information from remote sensing data requires sophisticated processing ...
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