Jessica Bajada-Silva
Read more about Jessica’s experience as the 2018 MORRE Summer Fellow Jessica Bajada-Silva studied Environmental Analysis and Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences. She worked as a Student Office Assistant at the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and previously interned at the Human Rights Center in Padova, Italy. On campus, she’s involved as […]
Daniel Daponte
Daniel is pursuing a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy with a minor in Urban Studies. He aspires to have a career in city planning or local government to create more sustainable and equitable cities. Through this Fellowship, Daniel will spend the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson in a Directed Study program. […]
Cora Funke
Read more about Cora’s experience as the 2022 City of Chelsea Open Data & Digital Communications Summer Fellow Cora Funke is from Vermont and double-majored in Political Science and Environmental Analysis and Policy in Kilachand Honors College and the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS). On campus, she is a member of Divest BU, plays […]
Sarah Garvey
Sarah Garvey received a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University in 2023 and in her research, focused on the effects of urbanization and forest fragmentation on carbon storage and fluxes.
Jeffrey Geddes
Research in Jeff’s group is focused on the impacts of reactive trace gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Topics range from understanding urban air quality to studying biosphere-atmosphere exchange in natural environments. The group primarily uses satellite remote sensing observations in combination with a global model of atmospheric chemistry, but also relies on field measurements. Current projects […]
Lucy Hutyra
Professor Lucy Hutyra joined the Faculty of Earth & Environment at Boston University in 2009. Her areas of specialization include urban climate and biogeochemistry, remote sensing, and vegetation ecology. Trained as a physical scientist, Professor Hutyra’s research has become ever more focused on the climate and ecology of cities, working at the science-policy interface. She is […]
Dan Li
Dan Li is the current Urban-H Associate Director of Heat, joining our Urban-H team on July 1, 2024. In this capacity, he will be at the forefront of the IOC, spearheading the development of innovative solutions to urban heat challenges and our center’s ongoing efforts to work on policy-oriented solutions to mitigate urban heat as a […]
Yaxiong Ma
Yaxiong Ma is a former Doctoral student in the Department of Earth & Environment. He received an Early Stage Urban Research Award in 2017.
Caterina Scaramelli
My research centers on mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivity. I am completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands. In Turkey, as in many other places, the wetland became an important site of everyday contestations over […]
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short’s research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, natural resource management, and climate change. By integrating concepts and approaches across the broad fields of natural resource management, institutions and the environment, and political ecology, she seeks to better understand how socio-political and ecological processes shape human interactions with nature […]