FRP Symposium: Climate, Biogeoscience, and Health: Transformative Science to Real-World Action

Date: December 6, 2024
Time: 10:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Location: Boston University, Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor)

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Event Title: “Climate, Biogeoscience, and Health: Transformative Science to Real-World Action”

Event Description: This symposium will showcase leading research at the intersection of climate change, biogeoscience, and human health drawn from across Boston University with particular focus on research that is relevant, actionable, or directly connected to policy and practice. Participants will include BU faculty, staff, and students and selected external partners and guests. 

This event is organized & co-sponsored by Boston University’s Hariri Institute,  BU Center for Climate and Health, URBAN – BU Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health and the Biogeoscience program. 

This event is open to everyone—we encourage anyone interested to join and participate.

Detailed Program:

10:00 – 10:25am          Welcome & Opening Remarks 

  • Gloria Waters, Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Boston University
  • Yannis Paschalidis, Director of Hariri Institute for Computing; Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering; Founding Professor of Computing and Data Sciences
  • Greg Wellenius, Professor of Environmental Health; Director of Center for Climate and Health Director
  • Pam Templer, Chair and Professor of Biology; Director of URBAN Program

10:25 – 11:25am           Lightning talks “Actionable Research in Climate, Biogeoscience, and Health across Boston University”

  • Kevin Lane, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, School of Public Health
  • Dan Li, Associate Professor of Earth & Environment, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
  • Mary Willis, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
  • Jon Levy, Professor and Chair of Environmental Health, School of Public Health
  • Ian Sue Wing, Professor of Earth & Environment, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
  • Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
  • Nina Brooks, Assistant Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health.
  • Lucy Hutyra, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Earth & Environment, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
  • Quinn Adams, Doctoral student, Environmental Health, School of Public Health.
  • Alex Gessier, Doctoral student, Biology, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
  • Ian Smith, Research Scientist, Earth & Environment, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
  • Emerson Conrad-Rooney, Doctoral student, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Jonathan Lee, Doctoral student, Environmental Health, School of Public Health
  • Emma Gause, Research Scientist, Center for Climate and Health, School of Public Health

11:25 – 11:50am                Panel discussion  “The stakeholder perspective: Opportunities and challenges in translating research into solutions”  (25 min)

  • Moderator
    • Lucy Hutyra, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Earth & Environment, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; Associate Director of BU URBAN Program
  • Panelists
    • Katharine Lusk, Executive Director of Planning Advisory Council, City of Boston
    • John Bolduc, Principal Planner at Weston & Sampson; formerly Environmental Planner at City of Cambridge Community Development Department 
    • Neil Singh Bedi, student at BU School of Medicine and Harvard MPH program and Research Scientist with CrisisReady
    • Wendy J Heiger-Bernays, Emerita Clinical Professor in Environmental Health, School of Public Health

11:50am – 12:00pm        Hariri Institute Focused Research Program (FRP) Wrap-up & Closing Remarks (10 min) 

  • Greg Wellenius, Professor of Environmental Health; Director of Center for Climate and Health Director
  • Pam Templer, Chair and Professor of Biology; Director of URBAN Program

12:00 – 1:00pm               Networking Lunch

Logistic Information:

Location (only in-person): Boston University, Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor), Boston, MA. (To access the upper floors, please use the elevators near Saxby’s café.)

Public Transportation

Due to limited parking & potential construction, we encourage public transportation. MBTA Green Line B branch, as well as a few minutes walking distance from stops on the C (St. Mary’s Street) & D (Fenway) branches.

Parking

On-street, two-hour meter parking is limited & available on Commonwealth Ave. There is free two-hour parking on the side streets.

Boston University Wifi

The BU Guest network allows visitors to access the Internet through BU’s wireless network. Please note that personal wireless access points are prohibited on the BU network because they interfere with network traffic. To access BU Guest (unencrypted): Connect to the network called “BU Guest (unencrypted)“ from your list of available networks.

To learn more about the Focused Research Program, visit here: Health Equity in the Wake of Continued Climate Change 

For questions in regards to the program, please email Casey Demarsico, at cdemarsi@bu.edu.