Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Through collaborations with faculty affiliate Mara Freilich (DEEPS) and the IBES-based Breathe Providence project, local residents are working to understand how pollution is affecting their community.

IBES faculty affiliates Baylor Fox-Kemper, Mara Freilich, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, and Karianne Bergen are collaborators on SIMCoast, a $7 million grant building Rhode Island’s research capabilities to measure and study the impacts of nano- and microplastics.

IBES Fellow Baylor Fox Kemper and Affiliate Mara Freilich, both faculty members in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, are among the Brown researchers involved in the new SIMCoast initiative.

Members of the 2025-2026 Voss Undergraduate Fellowship cohort have shared their research with local audiences through the Conversations in Science series at Providence’s Hamilton House.

IBES awarded grants to six core and affiliate faculty members, allowing them to conduct research that crosses boundaries and benefits communities, both at Brown and around the world.

This article describes the cancellation of IBES faculty affiliate Mara Freilich's NASA grant, which engaged citizens in studying the air quality around California's Salton Sea.