Leeza Moldavchuk
Earth & Environment
- Title Earth & Environment
- Email lmoldavc@bu.edu
- Education University of Maryland, B.A.
Leeza Moldavchuk is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environment. Her current research focuses on both the urban carbon cycle and urban heat. Leeza is exploring how satellite-based measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) can be used to address the long-standing problem of tracking and quantifying vegetation carbon flux in urban landscapes. Additionally, she is working on a project titled “Data for Cool Cities”, as a part of a collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI), which aims to improve the accuracy, transferability, and overall performance of an intra-city air model for accurate heat exposure mapping in diverse urban settings. Leeza earned her bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 2021 where her undergraduate research focused on trapped ion quantum computing.