Boston
University Department
of Geography & Environment 675
Commonwealth Avenue Boston,
MA 02215
Phone:
617-353-5743 Fax:
617-353-8399 Email:
lrhutyra AT bu.edu Lab:
STO 458 Office:
STO 439C
Office Hours: Monday 2-3pm or by appointment Hutyra CV
Courses Taught: GE
104: Natural
Environments: The Physical Landscape GE
456/656:
Terrestrial Ecosystems & the Carbon
Cycle
Boston
ULTRA-Ex: Lucy Hutyra and
Nathan Phillips
are leading this NSF funded research project investigating the
space-time variation in Metropolitan Boston’s
carbon metabolism.
Lucy Hutyra was awarded an NSF
CAREER grant titled 'Assessing Urban Influences on Ecosystem
Processes' for the period 2012-2017.
Raciti,
S.M., Hutyra, L.R., Finzi, A.C. Depleted soil carbon and nitrogen
stocks under impervious surfaces Environmental
Pollution, DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol2012.01.046).
Raciti,
S.M., Hutyra, L.R., Rao, P., Finzi, A.C. Soil and vegetation carbon in
urban ecosystems: The importance of urban definition and scale. Ecological Application, in press. [pdf]
Hutyra,
L.R.,
Yoon,
B.,
Alberti, M. Terrestrial carbon stocks across a gradient
of urbanization: A study of the Seattle, WA region. Global Change Biology, 17: 783-797,
2011.[pdf]
Hepinstall-Cymerman,
J.,
L.R.
Hutyra,
S.
Coe. Patterns of land cover change in the Central
Puget Sound, Washington, 1986-2007. Urban
Ecosystems, 2011. [pdf]
Hutyra,
L.R.,
Yoon,
B.,
Hepinstall-Cymerman, J., Alberti, M. Land cover changes
in the Seattle metropolitan region: An examination of spatio-temporal
patterns and carbon consequences. Landscape
and
Urban
Planning, 103:83-93. [pdf]
Tropical Forest
Research Lucy
Hutyra and Charles Harvey were awarded an NSF
grant titled 'Water and Carbon Dynamics in Tropical Peatlands:
Comparison of a forested and a
deforested peat dome in Borneo' for the
period 2011-2013.
Miller, S., Goulden, M.L.,
Hutyra, L.R., Keller, M., Saleska, S., Wofsy, S., Figueira, A., da
Rocha, H., de Camargo, P. Reduced Impact Logging Minimally Alters
Tropical Rainforest Carbon and Energy Exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (48): 19431-19435,
2011. [pdf]
Pyle,
E.H.,
Santoni,
G.W.,
Nascimiento,
H.E.M.,
Hutyra,
L.R.,
de
Carmago,
P.B.,
Vieira,
S.,
Saleska, S.R., Laurance, W.F., Wofsy, S.C., Dynamics and disequilibria
of carbon, biomass,
and structure in two Amazonian forests, Journal of Geophysical Research
– Biogeosciences, 113, G00B08, doi:10.1029/2007JG000592. [pdf]
Hutyra,
L.R.,
Munger,
J.W.,
Pyle,
E.H.,
Saleska,
S.,
Restrepo-Coupe,
N.,
de
Camargo,
P.B., Wofsy, S.C., Resolving systematic
errors in estimates of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and
ecosystem respiration in a tall-stature forest: application to a
tropical forest biome, Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, 148:
1266-1279, 2008. [pdf]
Hutyra,
L.R.,
Munger,
J.W.,
Saleska,
S.R.,
Gottlieb,
E.W.,
Daube,
B.C.,
Dunn,
A.L.,
Amaral,
D.F., Camargo, P.B., Wofsy, S.C., Seasonal controls on the exchange of
carbon and water in
an Amazonian rainforest, Journal of
Geophysical
Research-Biogeosciences, 112, G03008, 2007. [pdf]
Saleska,
S.R., Miller, S.D., Matross, D.M., Goulden, M.L., Wofsy, S.C., da
Rocha,H., de Camargo, P.B., Crill, P., Daube, B.C., de Freitas, H.C.,
Hutyra, L., Keller, M., Kirchhoff, V., Menton, M., Munger, J.W.,
Pyle, E.H., Rice,
A.H,Silva, H, Carbon fluxes in old-growth Amazonian rainforest:
seasonality and disturbance-induced net carbon loss, Science, 302,
1554-1557, 2003. [pdf]
