Follow the Mississippi River to its shores between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and you’ll arrive at “Cancer Alley,” a stretch of land dotted with petrochemical factories and sick communities. Voss Environmental Fellow Christy Mo ‘21, a Louisiana native, is determined to make sense of the connection.

As the global climate shifts, so too do plants’ bearing of flowers and fruit. Voss Environmental Fellow Isabel Acevedo ‘21 is exploring the history of these shifts through archival records and citizen science initiatives. 

Amidst the dense smog and sparse parks of Los Angeles, California, Melissa Lopez ’21 grew up thinking about ways to improve the sustainability of her city.

Casey Chan ‘23, a science communicator and expected chemistry concentrator, has added 'stormwater structure surveillance' to her impressive list of skills, thanks to a summer internship curated and supported by IBES.

Every day, scientists learn more about the gut microbiome, the diverse group of bacteria that colonizes the digestive tract and helps maintain an organism’s overall health.

In public health, there is growing consensus that chemicals found in some consumer goods are toxic to human health.

In many ways, nearby Narragansett Bay is just what you would expect: a large expanse of blue, teeming with wildlife and phytoplankton. But thanks to its urban environs, its waters also contain a hefty dose of environmental pollutants like nitrogen.

Emily Hollenbeck, the new president of Costa Rica’s Monteverde Conservation League and a former IBES graduate affiliate, is working tirelessly to preserve the ecosystems she loves.

Courtney Mattison ‘11 AM grew up as an ocean-obsessed kid in San Francisco, exploring the “alien world” of tide pools along the California coast.

In the mid-1970s, Cynthia Roberts wasn’t entirely sure what she would do after college; but when her application for admission to Brown University begged the question, she wrote down “environmental law.”