Professor Laurence C. Smith and colleagues are leading research on the melting Arctic and examining where meltwater ultimately ends up.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Laurence C. Smith
John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
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The Brown Daily Herald
November 3, 2025
Brown-affiliated studies help explain overestimations in impact of Greenland Ice Sheet melting
This article features research and commentary from IBES Professor Laurence C. Smith.
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Nature Communications
September 12, 2025
Greenland ice sheet runoff reduced by meltwater refreezing in bare ice
This study, co-authored by Professor Laurence C. Smith and former IBES postdoc Jonathan Ryan, suggests that climate models may be overestimating current levels of meltwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.
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News from Brown
October 4, 2024
IBES at 10: A decade of innovative research and teaching in environment and society
Founded in 2014, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society has become a leader in producing boundary-breaking, solutions-driven research while educating the next generation of environmental leaders.
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