Meredith Niles, Professor of Environment and Society and Behavioral and Social Sciences, is among the authors of this study.
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Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Extreme heat and hospitalization with Parkinson’s disease among older adults
This study, coauthored by IBES and Public Health Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, found that high heat index exposure is associated with increased odds of hospitalization with Parkinson's amongst older adults, particularly those living in temperate climates in the US South.
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Could non-humans have Traditional Ecological Knowledge? And if so, what should we do about it?
Voss Postdoc Elodie Freymann is first author of this paper, which argues that "acknowledging the existence of Non-Human Traditional Ecological Knowledge can shift anthropocentric perspectives and inform conservation policies aimed at protecting ecological cultures and relevant resources."
Communications Sustainability
Large language model reveals an increase in climate contrarian speech in the United States Congress
IBES and Sociology Professor J. Timmons Roberts William Kattrup '25 contributed to this study.
Geophysical Research Letters
Representation of Surface Mixed-Layer Eddies Affects the Large-Scale Ventilation of the Global Ocean
DEEPS Professor and IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper co-authored this study, which reveals how small-scale ocean processes have substantial effects on global model results.
IBES and Epidemiology Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou is among the co-authors of a recent study that links tropical cyclones to spikes in drug-related deaths for months after impact.
Former Voss Postdoc Lina C. Pérez-Angel authored this article, which found that the tropics are warming more than expected.
Professor of Education and IBES faculty affiliate Matthew Kraft and members of his SustainableED team conducted a nationwide assessment of U.S. PreK-12 public and private schools’ proximity to known environmental hazard sites.
AGU Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Plant Wax Isotopic Reconstructions Reveal Thermodynamic Drivers of Hydroclimate Over the Last Two Glacial Cycles at Great Salt Lake and Bear Lake, Utah
Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra is coauthor of this study.
IBES Assistant Professor Rachel Wetts and coauthor Loredana Loy reveal that "appeals to class-based resentment against cultural elites are one prominent strategy to urge publics to reject climate mitigation strategies."
IBES and Epidemiology Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou is among the authors of this new study, which links violence and temperature spikes.
Climate and Development Lab
Who’s Obstructing Climate Action in the Rhode Island Legislature?
Members of the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab found that Rhode Island Energy and the Public Utilities Commission are among the entities obstructing climate action in the state.
Frontiers in Bird Science
Fire-crested alethes (Alethe castanea) follow humans and bushbuck in Uganda’s Budongo Forest
This report, authored by IBES Voss Postdoc Elodie Freymann, documents a novel foraging behavior in fire-crested alethes in the Budongo Forest Reserve of Western Uganda.
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Algorithmic North: Weather, Security and International Law
Professor Amanda Lynch co-authored this policy brief.
This paper, co-authored by Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra, supports the hypothesis of a negative feedback that limits atmospheric carbon dioxide decline during glacial periods.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra is co-author of this study, which provides a new framework for examining how organisms have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds, thousands, or millions of years.
This study, co-authored by IBES and Biology Associate Professor Tyler Kartzinel, reveals that diamondback terrapins face heightened risks at the northern edge of their range in New England as their genetic diversity declines.
Jennifer Hadden, an IBES affiliate at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs, co-penned this commentary, which notes that "the current U.S. housing policy regime creates tradeoffs between promoting equity and addressing climate risk."
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.
Carbon Balance and Management
Life cycle emissions associated with vault storage of wood cleared for fire management in the Western United States
This paper, coauthored by IBES Professor Stephen Porder and Declan Johnson '24, suggests that wood vaults are a promising emissions-reduction strategy, but challenges remain.
Assistant Professor of Environment and Society Rachel Wetts examines how the social value of education contributes to partisanship within climate debates.
Nature Climate Change
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology
IBES Professor Dov Sax coauthored this article, which highlights why ecology's space-for-time substitution method can be misleading, and makes suggestions for improving the reliability of ecological forecasts.
The first working paper from the Sustainable Education Research Initiative, led by IBES affiliate Matthew Kraft (Department of Education) and supported by an IBES Catalyst Research Award.
Article coauthor Jennifer Hadden, an IBES affiliate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, proposes a framework for understanding the basic infrastructure needs of people displaced by climate change during four phases: initiation, mobilization, pause and settle.
IBES Postdoc Sonam Futi Sherpa contributed to this study, which finds that all of the 28 most populous U.S. cities are sinking.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Growing sustainable capitalism: The environmental politics of agri-tech in Singapore
This article, written by Voss Postdoc Vanessa Koh, examines the nexus of the emergence of the agri-tech ecosystem in Singapore and concerns over climate change.
Nature Climate Change
Improving future climate meetings
Jennifer Hadden, an IBES affiliate at the Watson Institute, penned with article alongside Aseem Prakash of the University of Washington.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
A Long-Lasting, High-Stability Reactor System for Compound-Specific Carbon Isotope Analyses
IBES Fellow Yonsong Huang and former IBES postdoc Bumsoo Kim are among the authors of this study.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Determination of KGa-1b and SHCa-1 Δ′17O and δ18O via Laser Fluorination of Lithium Fluoride Clay Pellets
This study was conducted by members of Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra's lab, including an IBES postdoc and graduate affiliates.
Global Ecology and Conservation
Diet-microbiome covariation across three giraffe species in a close-contact zone
Associate Professor Tyler Kartzinel's lab group collaborated with nonprofits in Kenya and Namibia to compare the diets and gut microbiomes of giraffes.
IBES and Epidemiology Associate Professor Allan Just led the development of this state-of-the-art national spatiotemporal exposure model, which reconstructs daily particulate air pollution estimates for use in a wide range of health studies.
IBES and Epidemiology Associate Professor Allan Just led the development of this state-of-the-art national spatiotemporal exposure model, reconstructing daily temperature estimates for use in a wide range of health studies.
American Ethnologist
Improperty: Black land stewardship and the paradox of liberation on stolen land
IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon discusses "improperty": "modes of ownership that paradoxically unsettle the logics of accumulation and enclosure that are proper to the property form."
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Stable isotope tempestology of tropical cyclones across the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean basins
IBES Director Kim Cobb is among the researchers who contributed to this study, which investigates past hurricanes in order to reduce future risk.
IBES Associate Professor Allan Just and Faculty Fellow Joseph Braun, both epidemiologists in the School of Public Health, contributed to this study.
Nature Geoscience
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling
Correspondence by IBES Fellow James Russell and colleagues on how a strategic expansion of continental drilling efforts would help advance paleoclimate research.
Distillations Magazine
Proxies for Justice
"The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied," former Voss Postdoc Researchers Jayson Maurice Porter and Lina C.
Lina C. Pérez-Angel write in this article. "Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
Lina C. Pérez-Angel write in this article. "Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
From reduction to regeneration: Environmental justice and ecological unity in the IRA era
In this peer-reviewed article, IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon "calls on the [environmental justice] movement to shift from the reductive framework at the heart of the IRA to a regenerative framework aligned with the movement's 'ecological unity' principle."
Current Anthropology
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry
IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon argues that "environmental solutionism is the rhetorical offspring of polluting industries, masking exploitative corporate practices with a facade of apolitical consensus."
Energy Research & Social Science
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast
"In this article, we demonstrate how the discourses and strategies of local opposition groups are influenced by relationships with national-level groups and fossil fuel interests," write members of the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab.
Nature Communications
Submesoscales are a significant turbulence source in global ocean surface boundary layer
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is a coauthor on this new paper.
Environmental Studies & Sciences concentrator Caitlyn Carpenter '26 is a coauthor of this study.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
The financial and environmental impact of unopened medical supplies discarded in the emergency department
This study was authored by students and faculty of Brown's Alpert Medical School, including IBES Affiliate Kyle Denison Martin.
Climate Policy Initiative
Partnering to Finance Adaptation
This report was co-authored by IBES alum Ken Schell-Smith '22.5.
September 19, 2024
News from Brown
How do coexisting animals find enough to eat? Biologists unlock insights into foraging habits in Yellowstone
Brown University ecologists teamed with National Park Service scientists in Yellowstone to answer a vexing question about how different wildlife species find enough to eat.
New research from the Climate and Development Lab and Climate Social Science Network, fueled by IBES alums.
Nature Communications
Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S.
Elizabeth Fussell, professor of population studies and environment and society (Research), coauthored this new study.
Nature Communications
Increasing intensity of enterovirus outbreaks projected with climate change
IBES and Epidemiology Assistant Professor Rachel Baker is the lead author on this new study, which predicts greater outbreaks of enterovirus as climate change worsens.
PAGES Horizons
Tracking hydroclimate extremes from deep in the tropics
This outreach magazine article highlights cave monitoring efforts in the Philippines led by former Voss Postdoc Natasha Sekhon.
Nature Communications
Experimental evidence of climate change extinction risk in Neotropical montane epiphytes
Emily Hollenbeck PhD '18 and IBES Professor Dov Sax conducted field surveys of epiphyte distributions on three mountains in Central America and performed reciprocal transplant experiments on one mountain across sites that varied in elevation, temperature, and aridity.
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