How can we navigate climate and societal turbulence?
How can we navigate climate and societal turbulence?
Keys Research Group | Department of Earth & Environment | Boston University
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What we work on
What we work on
Moisture recycling in the Anthropocene
Moisture recycling in the Anthropocene
How land-use change reshapes the atmospheric water cycle — and what that means for the people who depend on rain falling somewhere else.
Climate change and
cascading risks
Climate change and
cascading risks
How climate change propagates through coupled human–earth systems — through trade networks, migration, food systems, and ecosystem shifts — and how we can anticipate the compound risks that emerge.
Sci-fi prototyping and radical futures
Sci-fi prototyping and radical futures
Imaginative, scientifically grounded futures — stories and scenarios that stretch how we think about the decades ahead.
Recent
Recent
May 2026 New paper published: Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis. (Pereira et al.)
April 2026 New Preprint is live (led by former student Kat Humphreys!): Evaporative Moisture Sources of Colorado’s Front Range (Humphreys et al.)
April 2026 New paper published: Meteoric water δ18O across the Dinarides: Role of topography, air-mass mixing, and precipitation seasonality (Sanchez Ortiz et al.)
January 2026 Prof. Keys interviewed for Climate Water Project, discussing moisture recycling and society.
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