Lucy Hutyra
Assistant Professor, BU Earth and Environment at Boston University
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Professor Lucy Hutyra’s research uses principles from a number of different scientific fields to understand the terrestrial carbon cycle and the impact of humans on carbon pools and fluxes. Through integration of atmospheric, biometric, and climatological information, she is focused on understanding the characteristics and drivers of atmosphere-biosphere exchange of carbon. Hutyra also runs the Hutyra Research Lab at Boston University. This lab investigates carbon dynamics in forest systems and urban areas, studying a range of topics including forest ecology, urban carbon and nitrogen cycling, land use change impact on ecosystem productivity, fossil fuel emission patterns and determinants, and climatic controls on ecosystem carbon exchange. Fundamentally, our work is grounded in environmental biology and atmospheric sciences, but is applied to a range of systems.
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Emerging Field of Urban Earth Science Can Help With Climate Plans
December 7, 2016
Next City Pam Templer, Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences If the hundreds of cities that have signed on to the Compact of Mayors or other climate action commitments follow through on their promise to stem carbon emissions, their work will start with creating greenhouse gas budgets and specific plans… View full article
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Climate change: Track urban emissions on a human scale
September 8, 2015
Nature Co-written by Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences Cities need to understand and manage their carbon footprint at the level of streets, buildings and communities, urge Kevin Robert Gurney and colleagues… View full article co-written by expert Lucy Hutyra
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Maps pinpoint where cars pollute the most
April 15, 2015
Futurity News Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences Ian Sue Wing, College of Arts & Sciences A new way to calculate the carbon dioxide emissions from cars could help cities find—and fix— their pollution “hotspots.”… View full article
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The city is an ecosystem, pipes and all
November 8, 2014
Boston Globe (subscription required) Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences Pamela Templer, College of Arts & Sciences Nathan Phillips, College of Arts & Sciences Is a tree trying to survive in the city better off than a tree growing in the forest? The obvious answer would seem to be “no”: City trees face pollution, […]
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How Climate Change Is Taking A Toll On Urban Trees
July 30, 2014
WGBH News Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences The Commonwealth Avenue Mall is one of Boston’s signature sights, with its grand boulevard of majestic trees where residents and visitors can sit, stroll, or just enjoy some midday shade… Expert quote: “That vegetation is storing carbon. If that vegetation was removed, that carbon would be in […]
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A chance to shape the world’s rapidly expanding cities
September 29, 2012
Boston.com “The Green Blog” Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences Within twenty years, the world’s urban areas are going to grow – a lot… View article
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Urban Planet: How Growing Cities Will Wreck the Environment Unless We Build Them Right
September 18, 2012
Time Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences It’s easy to miss amid the day to day headlines of global economic implosion, Presidential campaign foibles and Mideast rage, but there is a less conspicuous kind of social upheaval underway that is fast altering both the face of the planet and the way that human beings […]
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Boston ponders app to ease traffic
June 29, 2012
Boston Globe Lucy Hutyra, College of Arts & Sciences What’s the best way to fix Boston’s notoriously bad traffic? How about an app?… View article
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