Here's a look at my breakout piece from this past Labor Day's "Climate Conversation" featuring Dr. Kim Cobb from Brown University. Our team of meteorologists put a lot of hard work into the show to give viewers insight & answers. WATCH: youtu.be/LuIzMXt7kx8 NBC 10 WJAR

Tenure-track job opening in Climate & Health, with Brown University School of Public Health & IBES: Institute at Brown for Environment & Society. It's broadly defined, and would join a team of newly-hired superstars at Brown University already transforming this critical space. Target date 10/1. Info & app link here: apply.interfolio.com/152760

Career Spotlight: Kevin Brubaker ’85⭐ An ENVS alum, Brubaker is Environmental Law & Policy Center's COO & Deputy Director. Learning a multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving at Brown "has served me well through a 40-year career in environmental advocacy," he said. Read on:ibes.brown.edu/news/2024-08-1…

“Environmental issues are not a major voting issue, so there is no reason for the politicians to respond to those issues if they are a peripheral concern to the population,” Visiting IBES Prof Robert Brulle told Katie Surma Inside Climate News ⤵️

This week on Possibly we're taking a look at in-flight turbulence: what causes it, and why rising temperatures might be making your flight bumpier. The Public's Radio 89.3FM Rhode Island PBS IBES: Institute at Brown for Environment & Society Listen now: thepublicsradio.org/possibly-podca…

Join our team! The The Swearer Center is hiring a Community-Engaged Research Partnership Specialist to steward partnerships, outreach, and community engagement activities, in part by supporting research at IBES and the Division of Biology and Medicine. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-ca…

“Having the [center] is really important, not just for me as a scientist, but for our shared goals and the community,” IBES & PSTC at Brown University Research Prof Elizabeth Fussell told News from Science ⤵️

Meet the 2024 IBES Catalyst Awardees! IBES Affiliate/Brown Epidemiology Asst Prof/Community Noise Lab founder e_dubya is piloting an environmental health and education project in West Jackson, Mississippi. Learn more about the winning projects: ibes.brown.edu/news/2024-07-1… #IBES10Years

Today we welcomed Devon Kerins to our research group Brown DEEPS / IBES: Institute at Brown for Environment & Society as a new IBES Voss Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Exciting times ahead as we spin up new projects and collaborations.

Recently a teacher wrote into Possibly with an age-old question from her students: Are wooden pencils or plastic mechanical ones better for the environment? This week on the show we explain the answer, and the process for figuring it out. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-podca…

Brown will soon build its first lab powered by 100% renewable electricity. IBES Prof / Sustainability Provost Stephen Porder calls the project "a massive opportunity to create a more modern & sustainable facility, without sacrificing scale or ambition." brown.edu/news/2024-09-1…

Career Spotlight: Allie Reilly ’15⭐ A supply chain deployment manager for U.S. Department of Energy, Reilly learned "the importance of collaboration to broaden my perspective before landing on a solution" as an IBES Voss Fellow and ENVS concentrator. Read on: ibes.brown.edu/news/2024-08-1…

Check out new research fueled by IBES alums – "Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States" The Climate and Development Lab Climate Social Science Network iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Brown University ecologists teamed up with National Park Service scientists in Yellowstone National Park to answer a vexing question about how different wildlife species find enough to eat. brnw.ch/21wMSXX

Mark Tracy ’95 returns to College Hill to assume his role as the first professor of sustainable finance and investing at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. browndailyherald.com/article/2024/0…

Through food packaging and our wider environments, “we’re exposed to a chemical soup,” says Brown Epidemiology Professor Joseph Braun. “We know less about the impact of all of these chemicals together on health than we do about each component.” popsci.com/science/plasti…

Rhode Island’s biggest landfill is expected to fill up by 2043. And there are about 100 inactive landfills across the state. So this week on Possibly we wondered, what happens when a landfill is full?

On Oct 8, join IBES & Climate Solutions Lab Watson Institute for "Climate Action and the 2024 Election: Science, Policy, and Disinformation," a panel ft. Carrie Nordlund Dr. Kim Cobb StefanieFriedhoff Chris Rea. Attend in-person or via livestream. Learn more: events.brown.edu/event/293910-c…

Hear from Olga Abinader, an IBES advisory council member + MATRIXNEWORLD's director of environmental review and land use planning, as she discusses Hispanic Heritage Month + her role in encouraging more women and people of color to consider STEM careers ⤵️