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Richard Primack on Climate Change in Massachusetts [Part 3 of 6]
Professor Richard Primack talks about his search for evidence of climate change in New England, and how he got some help from Henry David Thoreau.
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Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds
‘Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds," part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, featured Professor Les Kaufman of the BU Marine Program and Conservation International as well as Professor [...]Richard Pollack and Professor Richard Primack both of the BU Department of Biology. The seminar was moderated by Pardee Center Director, Professor James McCann.
The event included discussions of the implications of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria, insects and the diseases they bring with them and the study of the impact of climate change on the flowering times of plants and the spring arrival of birds.
Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 18, 2011.
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Aeroecology: The Next Frontier
Professor of biology and director of BU's Center for Ecology & Conservation Biology Thomas Kunz invites the audience to consider the air around them. In Aeroecology: The Next Frontier, Kunz explains the new discipline of aeroecology, which studies [...]airborne organisms and how they depend on the support of their aerospheric ecosystem. Kunz's presentation is the 2009 University Lecture, established to honor faculty engaged in outstanding research.
Hosted by Office of the Provost on October 19, 2009.
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Making Geology Fun: The Hands-On Earth Science Course at Boston University
Lawford Anderson, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of Earth and environment, has always had a deep love for geology. For 50 years, he’s been instilling his passion and excitement for rocks in the students in his Earth’s Rocky Materials [...]class, first at the University of Southern California, and since 2011, here at Boston University.
The class offers a deep dive into the history and evolution of Earth’s materials and how those materials go on to become the rocks surrounding us in our everyday lives. Students get a chance to learn a great deal about rocks, from how to identify them to how to analyze their age.
"Students learn empowerment, that they can discover the story of each rock and tell that story," Anderson says. "Every rock has a story, but the rock can’t tell its story. Our students can tell that story."
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How to Save Coastal Ecosystems and Make Science More Equitable
Coastal environments, like wetlands and salt marshes, are critically important in protecting us from climate change, yet they’re historically under-researched. In this new video, two BU Earth and environment scientists explain why these areas need [...]protecting and demonstrate their efforts to empower citizen scientists to measure the carbon dioxide stored in New England’s coastline.
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I vlogged my college fieldwork trip to the Phoenix Islands Protected Area
What’s it like to spend six weeks at sea in the remote Pacific Ocean, where the closest human beings (besides your shipmates) are the astronauts in orbit on the International Space Station? Earlier this year, Boston University College of Arts [...]& Sciences undergraduate researcher Allie Cole (CAS’21), a marine science major, got the chance to find out. Traveling to the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), Cole spent six weeks aboard the scientific vessel "Robert C. Seamans," collecting samples of microscopic marine life such as phytoplankton, zooplankton, and larval fish across 3,000 nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean. Her samples and data analysis will contribute to a 10-year-long study of how larval marine life are distributed across the remote Phoenix Islands Protected Area lead by the Randi Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab at Boston University.
Watch Cole’s video blog above, and check out her account of the trip "by the numbers" on Boston University's research magazine, The Brink: /articles/2019/phoenix-islands-fieldwork-vlog/
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