Lucy Hutyra
Professor, CAS (Earth & Environment)
Lucy Hutyra is Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. She received her PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2007 from Harvard University for her thesis “Carbon and Water Exchange in Amazonian Rain Forests.” She received BS in Forest Ecology and Management from the University of Washington.
Dr. Hutyra’s research interests include interactions between humans and ecosystems including (1) carbon and water cycling (2) ecosystem responses to stressors (both human and climatic); (3) Atmosphere-biosphere interactions; (4) terrestrial ecology; (5) urban ecology.
Her 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.
- Disciplines
- Earth and Environment
- Research Areas
- Data Science, AI & Machine Learning, Energy Systems, Smart Cities, and Transportation