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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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Energy price volatility affects decisions to purchase energy using capital: motor vehicles
(Energy Economics, 2023-07-31)I investigate how energy price volatility affects consumer decisions to purchase durable, energy using capital, motor vehicles. A cointegrating vector autoregression (CVAR) model indicates that; (1) high price volatility ... -
Social and Environmental Events Disrupt the Relation Between Motor Gasoline Prices and Market Fundamentals
(2023-07-31)After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, higher prices for motor gasoline re-ignited debate about price discovery; do market fundamentals largely determine motor gasoline prices. We evaluate the degree to which market ... -
Vegetation Earth System Data Record from DSCOVR EPIC observations: product analysis and scientific exploration
(2022-07-05)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 ... -
Ozone and nitrogen dioxide pollution in a coastal urban environment: the role of sea breezes, and implications of their representation for remote sensing of local air quality
(American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2021-09-27)We present an analysis of sea breeze conditions for the Boston region and examine their impact on the concentration of local air pollutants over the past decade. Sea breezes occur about one-third of the days during the ... -
Environmental law — resuming progress on lead poisoning: a prime indicator of civilization
(2018)[Failing to adequately protect citizens against the threat of lead poisoning is an indication that our society is not fully civilized. There are many compelling reasons to take concerted action against lead: the seriousness ... -
Revisit the performance of MODIS and VIIRS leaf area index products from the perspective of time-series stability
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)As an essential vegetation structural parameter, leaf area index (LAI) is involved in many critical biochemical processes, such as photosynthesis, respiration, and precipitation interception. The MODerate resolution ... -
Measuring organization of large surficial clasts in heterogeneous gravel beach sediments
(MDPI AG, 2022-04)The natural stratification and interlocking “organization” of armored sediments in heterogeneous, coarse-grained, beaches provides protection and enhances habitat for borrowing sedentary megafauna and macrofauna such as ... -
Following the sand grains
(MDPI AG, 2022-05)When longshore transport systems encounter tidal inlets, complex mechanisms are involved in bypassing sand to downdrift barriers. Here, this process is examined at Plum Island Sound and Essex Inlets, Massachusetts, USA. ...
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