Fall 2020 YIBS Newsletter

October 9, 2020

We’re excited to share our new YIBS Newsletter! We plan to distribute one of these at the start of each semester to keep everyone up to date on what we're doing.  Please enjoy our Fall 2020 edition!

News & Updates

YIBS Postdoc Armita Manafzadeh wins young investigator award for paleontology research

December 8, 2025
Armita Manafzadeh, a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, and the Yale Peabody ...

Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water?

November 20, 2025
In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also...

YIBS postdocs illuminate new insights into river metabolism across the Western United States

November 14, 2025
A new Science study co-authored by YIBS researchers sheds light on the significant role that rivers in the western United States play in absorbing carbon dioxide from the...