It is 1998 and Nancy Jacobs stands awestruck at Lake Baringo in Kenya, floored by the immense wisdom of a local bird guide. Globally known as a birdwatcher's paradise, the lake is home to more than 350 species of birds—and the guide seemed to know all of them.

The Program for Environmental and Civic Engagement (PECE), a new initiative of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), is excited to announce a new collaboration with the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship.

"Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities," finds that environmental regulatory agencies and laws fail to address the scale of industrial hazards in American cities.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society is now seeking applications for two annual postdoctoral opportunities.

Human geographer Kai Bosworth has always been fascinated by environmental social movements surrounding land ethics, especially in the rural American Midwest and West.

The Institute is now home to three compelling new works of art created by local artists Johnathan Derry and Amy Wynne.

Archaeologists and geologists are hard at work this summer in Sardinia, digging into the earth and analyzing what comes out—all in an effort to better understand the way the region’s climate and landscape have changed over the last 10,000 years.

A new book, Sites Unseen, by IBES fellow Scott Frickel and colleague James R. Elliott, is out this month from the Russell Sage Foundation.

Tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Climate Change

A summer intensive course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for high school girls finished last week, the first of its kind at the Institute.

The Earth Science Women's Network, an international peer-mentoring organization for women in the geosciences, has received a national honor for its work in creating a supportive community for thousands of scientists.
IBES fellow and Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Meredith Hastings is co-founder and President of the organization.

At 80 degrees North, the ice edge draws an abundance of marine life: sunlight-loving phytoplankton, schools of coldwater fish, and hundreds of diving, rolling narwhal crooning an eerie tune. At the outset of his Arctic research adventure last summer, Voss Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Horvat pitched a tent and basked in the serenity of the otherworldly polar scene.

IBES Director Amanda Lynch has given a keynote presentation at a key climate change meeting in Bonn today.

Today, the Sumatran rhinoceros, true to its name, is a tropical animal native only to remote mountains; however, as recently as a few thousand years ago, this creature thrived across an enormous range—from the tropics to North China. This, according to new research by Brian Lander in Current Biology.

Former graduate affiliate turned Lynch Lab postdoc Chelsea Parker has authored a paper on her PhD work now out in the journal Climate Dynamics.

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Tyler Kartzinel has been elected an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

Dr. John P. Holdren, Senior Advisor to the President at Woods Hole Research Center and former Science Advisor and Director to President Barack Obama, visited the Institute on Thursday, February 15th and delivered a lecture entitled "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?"

IBES fellow Joseph Braun has been named one of 20 Pioneers Under 40 in Environmental Public Health by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), a prestigious resource for evidence-based science and shared knowledge regarding human health.

Until her Voss Fellowship, Loren Albert did emissions research by climbing trees. Now, with the help of Assistant Professor Jim Kellner and drone technology, she has the whole forest in her sights.

In a new study, IBES sabbatical visitor Laurence C. Smith, affiliated with UCLA, and his team are reinforcing the importance of collaboration in assessing the effects of climate change.

Over two weeks in November, 15 students from the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society's Climate and Development Lab have been embedded in key organizations at talks in Bonn, Germany of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Experts deem Harnett White's anti-science stance a threat to the nation.

For many, the title theoretical physicist conjures images of wild-haired scholars poring over complex equations in an effort to solve esoteric scientific problems. But Brad Marston, Professor of Physics, is not wild-haired. And the problem he seeks to tackle is far more down-to-Earth than those stereotypes would lead one to believe.

Visiting scholar Brigt Dale has authored a new book, The Will to Drill—Mining in Arctic Communites, just out from Springer Publishing.

Dawn King's popular IBES course facilitates community partnership and interdisciplinary study.

The sprawling volcanic islands of Indonesia are famed for their lush, tropical flora; but during the last ice age, the region's rainforests were instead dry savannas where it rained only half as much as it does today.

Physical geographer Samiah Moustafa joins the roster of IBES Fellows this Fall as Visiting Assistant Professor of Environment and Society.

Our environment oozes with chemical contaminants. They lurk in our food, our furniture, our cleaning supplies, and our medicine cabinets. But what effect are they having on the most vulnerable among us—our children?

Chances are, the last time you were at the beach, ocean physics wasn't paramount on your mind. However, that glistening expanse of frothy blue is more than just a pretty sight. In fact, it is one of the biggest drivers of both weather and climate on Earth.

Each year, hurricanes and tropical cyclones pose a looming threat to countries all over the world—not only for fear of life and limb, but also for their catastrophic effects on regional economies.