Clark University HERO SUMMER 2012 application information
New $2.7M NSF grant "Collaborative Research: Ecological Homogenization
of Urban America," is expected to transform scientific understanding of the
nation’s growing urban landscape – on ecological and sociological levels.
Project Principal Investigator is from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
in Millbrook NY. The Clark University portion of this grant is $200,000 and the
project leader is co-PI, Colin Polsky. The grant is partly built from research done through other active HERO
grants over the past few years.
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HERO REU Summer program brought in 7 students from around the US and 5 students from Clark University to work in 3 research areas. Click on the PEOPLE drop down on the right of this screen and click on "FELLOWS" for details of these summer projects.
HERO research program at Clark thriving; student fellows honored. HERO offers
high level research opportunities for undergraduates.
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The science of communication - Clark students learn how to bridge the gap
between science and the media as part of the COMPASS, Communication Partnership
for Science and the Sea, program.
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Professor Colin Polsky was recently awarded a three-year, $360,000 "REU Site" grant from the US National Science Foundation, with Professors John Rogan and R. Gil Pontius, Jr. as co-principal investigators. This award will take the Clark HERO program to the national level.
See the how-to guide for producing <1m lawn maps by the HERO Object-oriented Lawn Mapping for Exploring Suburbia (HOLMES) team.
This follows a $1.4 million research grant awarded to HERO in September 2007 that was intended to catalyze research by HERO Professors Polsky and Pontius.
Hero engages in two main areas of research concerning the causes and consequences of the Asian longhorn beetle (ALB) infestation in central Massachusetts on urban and ex-urban forests:
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Methodologies used include landscape metrics, GIS, remote sensing and geospatial modeling.
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Methodologies used include qualitative methods, such as interviews and focus groups.
This material is based upon work supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Nos. BCS-0948984, BCS-0709685, OCE-1058747, EF-1065741, SES-0951366 and through the PIE, ULTRA-EX, CNH, MACRO-BIO, DCDC II and FCE groups of the LTER. This material is also based upon work supported by US Dept of Commerce (NOAA SARP) Grant No. NA09OAR4310141. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
The Asian longhorn beetle infestation in Central Massachusetts will be studied by the HERO REU Summer 2012 program.