News Archive

Spring 2011

Climate Change BIARI a resounding success
Brown-MBL Study Estimates Future Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Brazilian Amazon State
In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Brown and MBL scientists estimates future emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane in the Brazilian Amazon state of Mato Grosso, by combining 105 years of historical data on land-use changes with possible scenarios for future deforestation and land use in the region. The lead author of the study was Gillian Galford, a recent graduate of the Brown-MBL PhD program.

Opinion piece by Professor Heather Leslie on Obama Administration's newly released National Ocean Policy
New England has been a hotbed of progressive ocean management for decades and, in fact, recent efforts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts helped to inspire and inform the new national policy, says Leslie.
Tropical temperatures track glacial record for past 2.7M years
A recent study by Professor Tim Herbert and graduate student Laura Cleaveland uses sedimentary cores taken from the ocean floor in four locations to show that climate patterns in the tropics have mirrored Ice Age cycles for the last 2.7 million years and that carbon dioxide has played the leading role in determing global climate patterns.
Science article - BBC Report - Brown Press release
ENSO in the Galapagos: A Model System for Studying Ecological Effects of Climate Change in the Ocean
Professor Jon Witman and graduate student Maggie Brandt are organizing a symposium at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America on using observations from El Niño/La Niña cycles in the Galapagos to predict future climatic effects on similar ecosystems.
Runaway Crab Devouring Cape Cod Salt Marshes:
Bertness and Altieri in Boston Globe
National Academy Scientists' Letter called "A Turning Point in the Attack on Climate Science"