A team of researchers, including Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra, examined preserved trees to understand how plants responded to the low carbon dioxide levels and cooler temperatures of the last glacial period, about 20,000 years ago.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Daniel Ibarra
IBES Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences & Environment and Society, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Research Interests
Water cycle, Paleoclimate, Carbon cycle, Isotope geochemistry, Modeling, Climate change, Critical Zone, Weathering
Recent News
This paper, co-authored by Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra, supports the hypothesis of a negative feedback that limits atmospheric carbon dioxide decline during glacial periods.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
International team publishes framework for study of ‘Earth engineers’
Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra is co-author of a new study, which provides a new framework for examining how organisms have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds, thousands, or millions of years.
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution
‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra is co-author of this study, which provides a new framework for examining how organisms have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds, thousands, or millions of years.
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Brown Division of Research
2025 Research Achievement Awardees
IBES Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra received this year's Early Career Research Achievement Award in the Physical Sciences.
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Members of Assistant Professor Dan Ibarra's lab, including graduate affiliate Riley Havel, who was interviewed for this piece, identified a meteorite that landed in a carton of ice cream in Pennsylvania.
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