Michael Dietze
Associate Professor, Earth & Environment College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University
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Michael Dietze is an associate professor of Earth & Environment at Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences.
The goal of Professor Dietze’s research is to gain a quantitative understanding of plant ecosystem and community dynamics across scales from the individual to the globe. He and his team plain to achieve this by obtaining a balanced combination of field research, novel statistical methods, numerical models, and ecoinformatics tools. Their current projects include climate-fire-vegetation relationships in the Alaskan tundra, assessing climate change impacts on forest biodiversity, the role of carbon reserves in forest demography, assessing the sustainability of woody biofuel feedstocks, validating ecosystem models against paleoecological data, and the development of ecoinformatics tools for model-data integration.
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Can scientists learn to make ‘nature forecasts’ just as we forecast the weather?
January 30, 2018
The Conversation Michael Dietze Imagine that spring has finally arrived and you’re planning your weekend… Expert quote: “Much of the current research in ecological forecasting is focused on long-term projections. It considers questions that play out over decades to centuries, such as how species may shift their ranges in response to climate change, or whether […]
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Climate Scientists Watch Their Words, Hoping To Stave Off Funding Cuts
November 29, 2017
NPR Michael Dietze Scientists appear to be self-censoring by omitting the term “climate change” in public grant summaries… Expert quote: “Every interaction I’ve had with NSF program officers about using the words ‘climate change’ under the current administration is not anything I’d consider a negative form of censorship.” View full article
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The science behind why those huge snow piles just won’t melt
May 28, 2015
Boston.com Michael Dietze, College of Arts & Sciences It’s been a pleasant May and a scorching past few days, and yet some of those no-good-dirty-rotten mounds of this winter’s historic snow still haven’t melted. How is that possible?… View full article quoting expert Michael Dietze
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