Today's edition of Fantastic Friday features a recent piece appearing in Science Advances and penned by #DanLi of BU Earth & Environment, #ElieBou -Zeid (@eliebz) and co-authors, entitled: Persistent urban heat

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🎉🌱♨️ We're thrilled to welcome Dan Li BU Earth & Environment as our incoming Urban-H Associate Director of Heat, taking over for Dr. Lucy Hutyra in July!

📚Dan also recently published in Science Advances on urban heat effects.

More info + 🧵⬇️
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Do heat waves last longer in the city?

Global climate simulations show that the urban heat island effect creates #HeatWave temperatures that are hotter and more persistent. Initiative on Cities BU Earth & Environment scim.ag/6Bc

We're pleased to announce our 2024 Graduate Summer Fellows! These 8 grad students—representing 7 different Boston University departments—will spend 10 weeks at the Center writing research papers & participating in programs to advance interdisciplinary learning.

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Please join us for this webinar on aging & climate change! ASA SALC PAA NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Gerontology Research BU Center for Innovation in Social Science Boston University BU Earth & Environment Boston University Sociology @ia4phs

Happy #EarthDay2024 , Terriers! Take a stroll around Boston and enjoy the spring weather. 🌎 ☀️ 👣

🌎 It's #EarthDay2024 ! Step into the IGS office & meet some of the @buexperts advancing research on topics including #OffshoreWind development, science communication, indoor air quality & more. Catch up on our latest research at spr.ly/6016bda8Q
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How we can approach space travel & co-create sustainable, ethical human colonies on Mars?
Join the discussion at 'Space Travel with Earth Wisdom,' our symposium featuring researchers at the intersection of #space science, #ecology , #sustainability & #ML
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Delighted to announce our latest research, just published in Nature Communications: Despite global dam constructions, sediment concentration in global deltas' water columns has increased since 2000.👇 BU Earth & Environment Physical Geography - Utrecht University

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led by Xuejiao Hou, Jaap Nienhuis

Read the latest work of Center Director Deborah Carr (@BUsociologydept BU Arts & Sciences) & affiliate Ian Sue Wing (@BUEarth), 'Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21st Century: Which World Regions Are at Greatest Risk?' - academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol… Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Gerontology Research

Amazing views of #Eclipse2024 taken from Boston, MA🤩 Boston University BU Earth & Environment

April 8th, 3-3.40pm, 2024...

💚💙 Join us on Wednesday, April 10th at 12:20pm to learn more about the research of our amazing Ph.D. students! 💚💙

This Grad Talk will feature Seamore Zhu, Mira Kelly-Fair, and Hristiana Stoynova.

🍴🍴 Food will be provided! 🍴🍴

See you there! 🌎

Last Thursday I 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 my 𝗣𝗵𝗗!!!

A huge thanks goes to my advisor Prof. Bruce T. Anderson and my Committee for guiding me to this apex life moment.

Thank you BU Earth & Environment for a great four and a half years!

#PhD #Dissertation #PhD voice

On Thu, Apr 4 @ 11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with BU Earth & Environment's Dr. Anne Short Gianotti: Science, Care, and Politics in Environmental Controversies. #ecology #suburbs #wildlife #policy Free + open to all. Register: eventbrite.com/e/science-care…

Population and climate change will pose daunting challenges for health care systems and providers worldwide, with some regions at stark risk. New work in JGMS Gerontology Research by Giacomo Falchetta @buearth. @salc NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research PAA academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…

New studies from IGS core faculty Magaly Koch of BU Earth & Environment & colleagues explore use of #MachineLearning for improved #landslide detection, mapping, and disaster response efforts. Check out the abstracts here:

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🐻 Warmer temperatures drive increased human-bear interactions in MA, discovered Bright Olunusi of BU Earth & Environment as an IGS Grad Student Summer Fellow. We're accepting applications through 3/22 for the 2024 fellows program: spr.ly/6018kOa8G spr.ly/6014kOaBs

CISS Affiliates Einstein and Palmer Testify in Support of MBTA Communities Act - bu.edu/ciss/2024/03/0… Initiative on Cities BU Arts & Sciences Boston University Sociology Office of Research, Boston University Dr. Lucy Hutyra Boston University School of Public Health BU Political Science Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University BU Experts Office of Research, Boston University BU Earth & Environment BU Biology

The Pardee Center is pleased to announce its 2024 Faculty Research Fellows! With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 12 Fellows will launch interdisciplinary research projects producing publications and leading seminars, conferences, and workshops.

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'A lot of the times research and new ideas that change the world come from students,' says '23 Grad Student Summer Fellow Claudia Diezmartínez of BU Earth & Environment & BU URBAN Biogeoscience & Environmental Health in this video about IGS-supported student sustainability research & engagement opportunities spr.ly/6016kPCUp