{"id":67,"date":"2014-02-16T09:32:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2024-11-11T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T23:46:06","slug":"research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab&#8217;s work has been supported by a number of different funding sources, including the National Science Foundation, NASA, EPA, and the Environmental Defense Fund. Here are some current and past projects:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Current<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Related Dementia; NIH 2024-2029<\/li>\n<li>Modeling urban air temperature sensitivity to tree canopy expansion and cool roofs; World Resources Institute 2024-2026<\/li>\n<li>GeoCAFE &#8211; An RCN to Convene, Accelerate, Foster, and Expand Geosciences Research Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Human Health (C2H2); NSF 2024-2029<\/li>\n<li>Downscaling of OCO-2\/3 Target Mode SIF and XCO2 Observations to Understand Fine-Scale Variability in Urban, Suburban, and Agricultural Areas; NASA 2024-2027<\/li>\n<li>From grasses to trees to forest fragments \u2013 Improving our understanding and modeling of biogenic fluxes in cities; NIST 2023-2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container people-page---sept-2023 autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-888\" data-slideshow-name=\"people-page---sept-2023\" data-slideshow-delay=\"2000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-888\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-888_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-4994-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Hris collecting soil cores under solar panels<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-888_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-4793-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Yorum and Leeza examining our SIF instruments at Harvard Forest<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-888_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-15-at-20.00.56-1-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Taylor checking sap flow<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-888_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/ccbffa1d-10ca-4677-9b36-665d0f13d61e-358x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Madison with a soil core<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-888_4\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-4985-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Lucy and Hris looking for a good spot to place soil sensors<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-number\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-888\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Past Projects<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Application of continuous ground-based remote sensing to analysis of OCO-2\/3 XCO2 and SIF data in mosaic landscapes; NASA 2021-2024<\/li>\n<li>Quantifying spatial and temporal variations in urban biogenic C fluxes: measurements, models and remote sensing from the leaf to the forest scale; NIST 2020-2024<\/li>\n<li>CO2-Air Quality Urban Synthesis and Analysis (&#8220;CO2-AQ USA&#8221;) Project: Trends &amp; Drivers of Urban Emissions from Past, Present, to Future; NOAA 2020-2024<\/li>\n<li>Calibration &amp; validation of XCO2 and SIF for urban targets; NASA 2019 \u2013 2024<\/li>\n<li>PREEVENTS Track 2: Land-atmosphere feedbacks over urban terrain under heat waves; NSF<\/li>\n<li>LTER: From Microbes to Macrosystems: Understanding the response of ecological systems to global change drivers and their interactions; NSF, 2019-2024.<\/li>\n<li>NRT: Boston University &#8211; Partnering Graduate Students and Cities to Tackle Urban Environmental Challenges; NSF, 2017-2023.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding methane changes in cities affected by the COVID-19 shutdowns; NOAA 2021-2023<\/li>\n<li>A pantropical monitoring system of carbon emissions and removals from forest degradation, deforestation, and forest expansion and growth; NASA 2019-2022<\/li>\n<li>Fluorescence Based Constraints on Urban Biogenic CO<sub>2<\/sub> Fluxes from OCO-2, OCO-3, and CLARS; NASA, 2018-2021.<\/li>\n<li>Calibration &amp; validation of XCO<sub>2<\/sub> and SIF for urban targets; NASA 2019-2020.<\/li>\n<li>CO<sub style=\"font-style: italic;\">2<\/sub> Urban\u00a0Synthesis and Analysis (&#8220;CO<sub>2<\/sub>-USA&#8221;) Network. ; NOAA, 2017-2021.<\/li>\n<li>Re-envisioning Urban Infrastructure to Address Climate Change: A Comprehensive Regional Framework for Sustainability; NSF 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Coastal Hypoxia Analysis and Risk Tracking (CHART) through Remote Sensing and Process-based Modeling in South and Southeast Asia; NASA, 2017-2020.<\/li>\n<li>Urban net ecosystem productivity: Solar induce fluorescence as a tool for productivity assessment; NIST, 2017-2020.<\/li>\n<li>Fragmentation effects on forest Productivity across managed ecosystem gradients; USDA, 2017-2021.<\/li>\n<li>Coupled Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling under Changing Land Cover and Air Quality: Improving Regional Estimates of Carbon Dynamics for the Northeastern U.S.;\u00a0USDA, 2017-2021.<\/li>\n<li>RCN: Coordinating the Development of Terrestrial Lidar Scanning for Aboveground Biomass and Ecological Applications, National Science Foundation, 2015-2020.<\/li>\n<li>Re-envisioning Urban Infrastructure to Address Climate Change: A Comprehensive Regional Framework for Sustainability, (PI); NSF 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation Photosynthesis &amp; Respiration Modeling for Toronto, (PI); Environment Canada, 2018-2019.<\/li>\n<li>Prototype Regional Carbon Monitoring Systems for Urban Regions, Thomas Nehrkorn (PI, AER), Lucy Hutyra, and Steven Wofsy (Harvard Univ.) Co-Investigators; Carbon Management System &#8211; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2016-2019.<\/li>\n<li>Tracking carbon emissions and removals by time series analysis of the land surface: prototype application in tropical MRV systems compliant with IPCC Tier 3; Pontus Olofsson (PI); Lucy Hutyra (CO-PI); Curtis Woodcock (CO-PI); Carbon Management System &#8211; NASA, 2016-2019.<\/li>\n<li>CAREER: Assessing urban influences on ecosystem processes; National Science Foundation, DEB-1149471, 2012 \u2013 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Validation and Application of OCO-2 data in US Northeast Corridor, NASA, 2015-2018.<\/li>\n<li>Quantifying carbon signatures across urban-to-rural gradients: Advancing the capacity for monitoring, reporting, and verification through observations, models, and remote sensing;\u00a0\u00a0Carbon Cycle Science &#8211; NOAA, 2014-2017.<\/li>\n<li>SCOPE: A smart-city cloud-based platform and ecosystems; Partnerships for Innovation &#8211; National Science Foundation, 2014-2017.<\/li>\n<li>CNH-Ex: Shifting land use and forest conservation: Understanding the coupling of social and ecological processes along urban-to-rural gradients; Anne Short (PI); David Foster (Harvard Univ.), Lucy Hutyra, and David Kittredge (Univ. of MA-Amherst) Co-Investigators; Coupled Nation-Human Systems &#8211; National Science Foundation, 2012-2017.<\/li>\n<li>ULTRA-Ex: Metabolism of Boston; Nathan Phillips (PI); Joseph Ferriera (MIT), David Foster (Harvard Univ.), Mark Friedl, Peter Furth (Northeastern Univ.), Suchi Gopal, Lucy Hutyra, Robert Kauffman, and Steven Wofsy (Harvard Univ.) Co-Investigators; National Science Foundation; 2011-2013.<\/li>\n<li>4-D Modeling of the Regional Carbon Cycle in and Around Urban Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study to Advance Observational and Modeling Foundations, Mark Friedl, (PI); Curtis Woodcock, Lucy Hutyra, Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian), Alison Dunn (Worcester State Univ.) and Steve Wofsy (Harvard Univ.) Co-Investigators;\u00a0 Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Sciences &#8211; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012-2015.<\/li>\n<li>Prototype Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification System for the Regional Scale: The Boston-DC Corridor, Thomas Nehrkorn (PI, AER); Phil DeCola (Sigma Space), Lucy Hutyra, and Steven Wofsy (Harvard Univ.) Co-Investigators; Carbon Management System &#8211; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2013-2016.<\/li>\n<li>Methane Inputs from Natural Gas Infrastructure in Greater Metropolitan Boston; Robert Jackson (PI; Duke Univ.); Lucy Hutyra, Nathan Phillips, and Steven Wofsy (Harvard Univ.) Co-Investigators. Environmental Defense Fund; 2012-2013.<\/li>\n<li>Combating climate change through smarter urban transportation policies, IBM Smarter Cities Challenge for Boston, Lucy Hutyra (Academic PI), 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Estimating rates of methane leakage from Greater Metropolitan Boston; Nathan Phillips (PI); Lucy Hutyra and Steven Wofsy (Harvard Univ.) Co-Investigators; Environmental Defense Fund, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Application of high-resolution physical and geostatistical models to define unresolved spatio-temporal variance in exposure of urban populations to traffic-derived pollutants; Steven Wofsy (PI; Harvard Univ.); Lucy Hutyra Co-Investigators; Harvard University, 2011-2012.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative Research: Water and Carbon Dynamics in Tropical Peat Lands\u2014Comparison of a Forested Peat Dome with a Deforested Peat Dome in Borneo, Charles Harvey (PI, MIT); Lucy Hutyra Co-Investigator; Hydrology &#8211; National Science Foundation, 2011-2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-5315-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-887 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-5315-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-5315-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-5315-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-5315-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-5315-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab&#8217;s work has been supported by a number of different funding sources, including the National Science Foundation, NASA, EPA, and the Environmental Defense Fund. 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