Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Daniel E. Ibarra is the Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Environment and Society at Brown University, and an affiliate Assistant Professor of Engineering. He also serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). As a biogeochemist and climate scientist, his research advances understanding of the coupled water and carbon cycles and how the Earth system responds to climate change, with work spanning the geologic record, modern river systems, field observations, and modeling. His group aims to deepen fundamental scientific knowledge while supporting applied solutions, including enhanced weathering strategies for permanent carbon dioxide removal and improved characterization of lithium resources critical to a sustainable energy transition.

Ibarra received dual B.S. degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Atmosphere/Energy) and Geological & Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2012, followed by an M.S. in Geological Sciences in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Earth System Science in 2018, also from Stanford. He then held a Miller Institute Fellowship and a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, working in stable isotope geochemistry before joining Brown University.

A Filipino-American geoscientist raised in Hong Kong and Montana, Ibarra is deeply committed to broadening participation in the geosciences. In 2020, he co-founded Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences, and previously served as a founding Advisory Council member for EarthArXiv, a preprint server for Earth and planetary sciences. In 2019, he was appointed a Balik Scientist by the Republic of the Philippines at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

At Brown, Ibarra holds appointments in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and is an affiliate of the School of Engineering, Data Science Institute, and the Swearer Center. He was a founding Executive Committee member for the Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE). His full profile and CV are available at vivo.brown.edu.