News Articles and Press Mentions

• Will California’s historic storms get even more intense? New research may hold a clue, San Francisco Chronicle, Jack Lee
• From Vision to Reality: 5 Stories of Innovation Fueled by IBES Catalyst Research Awards, IBES News Article
• IBES shares progress on Strategic Plan and other updates at Town Hall & Reception,  IBES News Article
• Interview for the Sustainable Visionaries podcast, by Ryan Bollimpalli
• Lloyd et al. (2023, PNAS)
  • Trees struggle to ‘breathe’ as climate warms, researchers find, Penn State, by Adrienne Berard (The Weather Channel, EurekAlert, Gulf Times and elsewhere)
• DOE backs Rice study of how soils store carbon, Rice University
• Weller et al. (2023, Nature Astronomy)
  • Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago, study suggests, Brown University, by Juan Siliezar
  • Study suggests active plate tectonics existed on Venus billions of years ago, not unlike Earth, Brown Daily Herald, by Elise Haulund
  • Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature, New York Times, by Kenneth Chang
• Ibarra et al. (2023, Nature Geosciences)
  • China University of Geosciences (Beijing) researchers provide new insights into the formation of the Tibetan plateau, China University of Geosciences Beijing
  • Before reaching the skies, the Himalayas had a leg up, new study shows, Stanford University (EurekAlert, Phys.org and elsewhere)
  • Scientists radically rethink how the Himalayas formed millions of years ago, adjusting their age, by Elizabeth Hlavinka, Salon.com (also on Yahoo News)
  • New Geological Study Rewrites History Of The World’s Highest Peaks, by David Bressan, Forbes
  • Scientists don’t actually have a clue how the Himalayas got so tall, study reveals, by Noa Leach, BBC Science Focus
  • A Himalája növekedése,  by LANDY-GYEBNÁR MÓNIKA, National Geographic (in Hungarian)
• Evidence of Earth’s Oldest Glaciers Found in South Africa, by Nathaniel Scharping, AGU EoS, August 2023
• Small Shrubs May Have Played a Large Role in Decarbonizing the Ancient Atmosphere, by Meghie Rodrigues, AGU EoS, February 2023
• Study: Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift, by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press (also on ABC, Boston Globe, Irish News, Independent), January 2023
• The Mass Extinction – S1E2: Oceans Of Plastic, featuring cave monitoring in the Philippines funded and led by our group, Channel News Asia, December 2022
• Beyond speaker series, ongoing work, SEASI looks to make institutional changes, by Elizabeth Hirschfeld, Brown Daily Herald, November 2022
• What Is a Lab-Grown Diamond, Exactly? Eliette Diamonds, 2022
• Piccione et al. (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Record of Antarctic ice sheet response to climate cycles found in rock samples, by Tim Stephens, UCSC Press Release (also on Phys.org)
  • World’s Largest Ice Sheet, Its Response to Climate Change Analyzed Using Unique Rock Samples, by Marie Morales, The Science Times

• How a hidden cave can help scientists understand the climate, by Emily Benson, High Country News, September 2022

• What stalagmites tell us about climate change, by Lily Lustig, IBES highlight of Natasha Sekhon, September 2022

• Postdoc Natasha Sekhon was awarded Brown’s Postdoctoral Excellence Award for Research/Teaching!
  • Today@Brown Article
  • IBES Announcement

• AGILE Grant Project Press Releases, December 2021
  • New NSF Grant Project supports Asian Americans & Pacific Islander students in Geoscience (original by Mae Jackson)
  • Grant project supports Asian American and Pacific Islander students in geoscience (Brown News)
  • New program supports Asian American, Pacific Islander students in geoscience (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
  • NSF grant supports Asian American and Pacific Islander students in geosciences (Penn State)
  • New NSF Grant to support Asian American and Pacific Islander students in Geoscience (UC Merced)
  • New NSF Grant to Support Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Students in the Geosciences (Princeton)

• The terrifying warning lurking in the Earth’s ancient rock record, by Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, March 2021

• Wang et al. (2021, AGU Eos)
  • Cutting to the Core, by Heather Goss, AGU Eos, June 2021
  • Un registro ininterrumpido del clima durante la era de los dinosaurios, Spanish translation in Estudios Planeteando, August 2021

• Disparity in open access practices in the earth sciences, by Olivier Pourrett, Science X, June 2021

• Students Learn New Skills with Scientist-in-Training Programs, by Katherine Kornei, AGU Eos, November 2020

• Q&A: What does it mean to be Asian American in the geosciences? Stanford Earth Highlight, May 2020

• Geologist Ibarra investigates paleoclimate through water, by Jesse Bryant, Jackson Hole News & Guide, March 11, 2020

• Geology for everyone, Stanford Earth Spotlight, October 21, 2019

• Introducing: Daniel Ibarra, Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, 2019

• How Volcanic Mountains Cool the Climate, by L. Poppick, AGU Eos, September 2019

• Caves Rugenstein et al. “Neogene cooling driven by land surface reactivity rather than increased weathering fluxes” (2019, Nature)

  • How the weathering of rocks cooled the Earth, by Peter Ruegg (adapted by Danielle Tucker), July 4th 2019

  • More ‘reactive’ land surfaces cooled the Earth down, by Josef Zens, July 4th 2019 (also on Phys.org and ScienceDaily)

  • The Earth’s Thermostat (in German), by Friedhelm von Blanckenburg for Spektrum der Wissenschaft, February 19th 2020 

• 2018-2019 Balik Scientist Coverage:

  • Balik Scientist Dr. Daniel Ibarra Kicks Off the UP-NIGS 2019 Lecture Series, January 24th 2019, DOST-PCIEERD

  • Rescuing geologic and climate records, by Alex Kekauoha, March 7th 2019, Stanford News

• Ibarra et al. “Warm and cold wet states in the western United States during the Pliocene-Pleistocene” (2018, Geology)

  • Extinct Lakes of the American Desert West, Featured Paper, Geological Society of America, February 22nd 2018 (also on Phys.org and EurekaAlert!).

• Wymore et al. “Critical zone structure controls concentration-discharge relationships and solute generation…” (2017, Water Resources Research)

  • A quantitative framework for analyzing the drivers of solute fluxes in the critical zone, Editor’s Highlight, Water Resources Research, July 21st 2017.

• Caves et al. “The Neogene de-greening of Central Asia” (2016, Geology)

  • Stanford researchers capture Central Asia’s ‘de-greening’ over millions of years into a modern-day desert, Adam Hadhazy, Stanford University Press Release, October 13th 2016 (also on Phys.org)

  • Longest-lasting deserts are more than 30 millions years old, Fred Pearce, New Scientist, September 29th 2016

• Mix et al. “A hot and high Eocene Sierra Nevada” (2016, GSA Bulletin)

  • Rock Samples Reveal Age Of The Sierra Nevada, Daniel Kelly, Environmental Monitor, January 7th 2016
    

  • Sierra Nevada confirmed to be 40 million years old, Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury, December 13th 2015

  • Northern Sierra Nevada Formed Nearly 40 Million Years Ago, Tim Fang, CBS San Francisco, December 11th 2015 

  • Stanford scientists crack mystery of the Sierra Nevada’s age, Miles Traer, Stanford University Press Release, December 11th 2015 (also on Phys.org)

• von Blanckenburg et al. “Stable runoff and weathering fluxes into the oceans over Quaternary climate cycles” (2015, Nature Geoscience)

  • Weathering and river discharge surprisingly constant during Ice Age Cycles, by Ker Than, Stanford University Press Release, June 8th 2015 (also on ScienceDaily and Phys.org)

  • Constant weathering, by Franz Ossing, GFZ Potsdam Press Release, June 8th 2015

• Oster et al. “Steering of westerly storms over western North America at the Last Glacial Maximum” (2015, Nature Geoscience)

  • Time when climate was topsy-turvy in Western U.S. aids climate prediction effects, Research News at Vanderbilt, by David Salisbury, February 23rd 2015 (also on Stanford News, NSF, Phys.org and ScienceDaily)

  • A cooler and wetter southwest US-prehistoric climate change, Research News at Vanderbilt YouTube Video, Jessica Oster, February 24th 2015

  • Scientists Create Climate Map of Western US 21,000 Years Ago: How It Will Help Understand Potential ‘Megadrought’, Tech Times, Jim Algar, February 23rd 2015

  • Scientists Look to the Past to Predict Future Rainfall Patterns in the American West, Science World Report, Catherine Griffin, February 24th 2015

  • Ice Age map helps predict the next mega drought, Futurity, March 9th 2015

• Ibarra et al. “Rise and fall of late Pleistocene pluvial lakes…” (2014, GSA Bulletin)

  • Stanford scientists solve mystery of ancient American lakes, Stanford Report, by Ker Than, June 5th 2014 (also on Phys.org)

  • America’s OTHER great lakes: Scientists solve mystery of how massive bodies of water in the west formed during last ice age, Daily Mail (UK), by Mark Prigg, June 6th 2014

  • Mystery of West’s Mammoth Ancient Lakes Solved, Newser, Elizabeth Moore, June 9th 2014

  • GSA Bulletin Press Release on Phys.org, Kea Giles, June 24th 2014

  • Sharing Lake Surprise, Stanford Digital Repository Blog, Amy Hodge, July 24th 2014