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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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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Brown research team finds small unmapped lakes in the Arctic are far less abundant than previously thought, greatly reducing the cumulative methane emissions they were thought to contribute to Earth’s atmosphere.
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European Geosciences Union
New proglacial meteorology and river stage observations from Inglefield Land and Pituffik, NW Greenland
New research from the Northern Change Research Lab, led by IBES and DEEPS Professor Laurence C. Smith.
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Northern Change Research Lab's Laurence C. Smith (Professor in IBES and DEEPS), Sarah W. Cooley Ph.D. '20, and former Voss Postdoc Scholar Jonathan C. Ryan recently published this addendum to their 2021 study.
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