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Previous Recipients of Graduate Research, Training & Travel Award
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Research, Training, Travel: How IBES supports graduate scholars
For the past decade, IBES’ Research, Training, and Travel (RTT) Awards have empowered graduate students working in units across Brown University to advance environmental research while building skills beyond campus.
| Awardee | Date | Department | Research Topic |
| Max Conley | Fall 2023 | HIST | "'Blind,' 'Deaf,' and 'Gagged': Dolphins, Bats, and Violent Discoveries of Echolocation" |
| Manuel Justin Custado | Fall 2023 | DEEPS | Constructing a hydrological balance model for the Bear Lake Watershed, Utah and Idaho using stable isotope data |
| Raquel Douglas | Fall 2023 | SOC | Towards Black Landways: Ecological Stewardship and the Black Radical Tradition |
| Mira Guth | Fall 2023 | ANTH | More Bugs, Less Drugs: Veterinary Interventions in the Multispecies Health Issue Antimicrobial Resistance |
| Christian Hoover | Fall 2023 | PHP | Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Device Validation for Measuring Organic Fluorine as a proxy for PFAS in Water. |
| Archana Ramanujam | Fall 2023 | SOC | Climate crisis as a racist, colonial crisis? The establishment of ecologically unequal exchange |
| Yunyu Shu | Fall 2023 | ECON | Climate Change Beliefs, Payment for Ecosystem Services, and Adaptation: Evidence from Cocoa Farmers in Ghana |
| Luiz Paulo Ferraz | Spring 2023 | HIST | Becoming "the Real Climate Leaders:" The Rise of Brazilian Indigenous Leaders as Environmental Defenders in the Global Political Arena |
| Aryan Jakhar | Spring 2023 | EEOB | Evaluating the resilience of tree species under climate change in the Eastern U.S |
| Kristin Kimble | Spring 2023 | DEEPS | Evolution of the Tropical Pacific Ocean Thermocline |
| Michael Neubauer | Spring 2023 | ECON | Pollution Externalities: The Case of Shrimp Farming in Vietnam |
| Jared Nirenberg | Spring 2023 | DEEPS | Southern Ocean and East Antarctic temperature evolution during the Middle Miocene |
| Carilee Osborne | Spring 2023 | SOC | State-Society Relations and the Renewable Energy Transition: Lessons from South African Cities |
| Theodore Bobik | Spring 2023 | DEEPS | Filling in the Gaps: Soils as Recorders of Regional Hydrology Across the Planet |
| Keegan Cothern | Spring 2023 | HIST | Long Shadows Downstream: Disaster, Developmentalism, and Rebuilding Postwar Japan |
| Catherine Gagnon | Spring 2023 | DEEPS | Hydroclimate in the southwestern Great Basin: Implications for economically viable lithium accumulation in lake clay deposits |
| Bryce Mitsunaga | Spring 2023 | DEEPS | Orbital pacing of Iberian hydroclimate, vegetation, and sea surface temperatures since at least 6 Ma: Case studies from Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene sections of IODP Site U1587 |