Diane Hwangpo, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, spent her summer interacting with penguins as an intern at the aquarium this past summer. She spent long days in a wetsuit cleaning the penguin exhibit, feeding the penguins and giving talks about the penguins to intrigued visitors, as joyous penguins flapped around her, happily gobbling up fish she fed them.

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future 14 BU professors to share their insights on the relationship between coastal cities and their surrounding waterways.

Six thousand meters deep in the Pacific Ocean lie wonders few humans have ever seen. From undiscovered species to thousand-year-old corals, the ocean harbors a wealth of unknowns that science is still...