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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Nature Communications
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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Summer reads from IBES scholars
Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.
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IBES Professor Laurence C. Smith offered commentary for this article.
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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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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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