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.
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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.
IBES and Epidemiology Professor Allan Just is co-author on this paper, which asks: Do minoritized groups experience hotter summers than the area average, and do non-Hispanic white people experience cooler summers?
Climate Social Science Network
Climate Obstruction Across Europe
This major assessment volume, available for free from the IBES-based Climate Social Science Network and Oxford University Press, explores the forces blocking climate action in and around Europe.
Current Climate Change Reports
Equity and Justice in Loss and Damage Finance: A Narrative Review of Catalysts and Obstacles
Reviewing recent literature on loss and damage finance, members of the IBES-based Climate Social Science Network consider how the new UNFCCC Loss and Damage Fund could be transformative for climate finance.
Nature Scientific Reports
Group 2i Isochrysidales thrive in marine and lacustrine systems with ice cover
New research from Tyler Kartzinel, assistant professor of biology and environment and society, and IBES Fellow Yongsong Huang.
Energy Research & Social Science
Climate coalitions and anti-coalitions: Lobbying across state legislatures in the United States
In this academic article, members of the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab ask: Who are the main actors in state-level climate disputes, and what coalitions emerge as they take positions on specific areas of clean energy policy? Who wins in these contests?
Nature Communications Biology
Linking diet switching to reproductive performance across populations of two critically endangered mammalian herbivores
New research from Tyler Kartzinel, assistant professor of biology and environment and society.
This new research article, co-authored by IBES Postdoc Sonam Sherpa, disucsses how sinking land increases risk for thousands of coastal residents by 2050.
Associate IBES and Epidemiology Professor Allan Just co-authored this editorial accompanying a study that found daily and nighttime extreme heat exposure in the third trimester is associated with increased risks for preterm birth.
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