Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Institute recognizes recent PhD recipients

IBES is thrilled to recognize the following talented scholars for their successful doctoral defense during the past calendar year:

Aron Buffen

Aron Buffen, PhD (Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences)
Dissertation Title: On the Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in Andean and Antarctic Ice Cores as a Tracer of Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry Through Time
Date: May 8, 2015

David Ciplet

David Ciplet, PhD (Sociology)
Dissertation Title: Movements From the Margins: Advocacy For Justice In International Climate Change Governance
Date: May 26, 2015

Sarah Corman Crosby

Sarah Corman Crosby, PhD (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Dissertation Title: Salt Marshes in a Changing Climate
Date: August 25, 2014

Megan Creighton

Megan Creighton, PhD (Chemical Engineering)
Dissertation Title: Implications of Surface Functionalization and Geometry on the Applications of Carbon Nanomaterial Colloids
Date: April 10, 2015

Chelsea Nagy

R. Chelsea Nagy, PhD (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Dissertation Title: Ecological and Biogeochemical Consequences of Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2015