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The Graduate School of Geography offers programs for both undergraduate and graduate study. Areas of focus include nature and society; globalization, cities and development; earth system science and geographic information science (GIS).
"...if you want to be a geographer...be the best. Take your graduate work at this school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University." —Texas, James Michener, 1985, p. 504. |
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Welcome to Clark's Graduate School of Geography
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Located in a small research university in the U.S., Clark's Graduate School of Geography is the oldest sustained program of geography and has awarded more Ph.D.s than any other geography program in the U.S. Clark Geography was established initially in 1921 as a graduate program only, and retains the name Graduate School of Geography in honor of its legacy as the longest standing doctoral program in the United States. The undergraduate program was established in 1923. Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges rates the School as "most selective," its highest rating for programs in the United States. A Master of Arts in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is offered as a shared program between the Graduate School of Geography and the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.
The Graduate School of Geography is also one of the only geography programs in North American to publish an internationally peer-reviewed journal, Economic Geography. The journal is committed to publishing the best theoretically-based empirical articles that deepen the understanding of significant economic geography issues around the world.
Clark's geography program is the only one in North America to have a mountain range named for it. The Clark Mountains, Antarctica, were named by one of program’s graduates, Paul Siple, famed meteorologist, explorer and inventor of the “wind chill factor.” Siple named the peaks of the Clark Mountains after his faculty instructors: Jones, Atwood, Burnham, Ekblaw, and Van Valkenburg.
Clark Geography is one of the only degree-granting programs to have its own commercially distributed Geographic Information System—the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing System. Shared with the Clark Labs, George Perkins Marsh Institute, IDRISI maintains over 35,000 registered users.
Clark has a long tradition of producing women geographers as detailed by Janice Monk in her AAG Special Issue of Economic Geography (1998).
We invite you to learn more about our geography program on the accompanying web pages.
Faculty Retreat 2007: Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Front row left to right:
Ronald Eastman, Larry Lewis,
Yuko Aoyama, Jody Emel,
Dianne Rocheleau.
Back row left to right:
James Murphy, Colin Polsky,
Dominik Kulakowski, Douglas
Johnson, Robert Gil Pontius,
Richard Peet, John Rogan,
B. L. Turner, Sam Ratick
and Karen Frey
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News and Events
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Congratulations to
Colin Polsky,
for being awarded $300,000 from NOAA for the project: Integrated
Water and Land Planning as Climate Adaptation Strategy:
comparisons of Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona (PI: Heejun
Change (Portland State U.); co-PI’s: Pat Gober (ASU) and Colin
Polsky).
Economic Geography, the
journal owned by Clark University and housed at GSG since 1925, is
pleased to announce that the 2008 ISI impact factor placed the journal 4th
in Geography and 7th in Economics, with the impact factor of
2.968.
Rory Horner won this year's Economic Geography
Specialty Group Best Student Paper Competition at the 2009 AAG
Convention in Las Vegas, NV with his paper, "The
emerging geography of India's pharmaceutical firms in the global economy".
Clark Labs is pleased to announce the creation of a blog devoted to the
exploration of trends in the earth system as seen through the lens of the Earth
Trends Modeler software, a new vertical application integrated with the IDRISI
Taiga software, released in February. Dr. J. Ronald Eastman,
Director of Clark Labs, will be the author of this blog. You can visit the
System Trends blog at
www.earthsystemtrends.org
Congratulations to Claire Griffin ('10, Geography
major, ES minor), Blaize Denfeld ('10, ESS major,
Geography minor), and Boyd Zapatka ('10, Geography
major, ES minor) on being selected for the summer 2009 Polaris Project.
More news
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The Polaris Project
Professor Karen Frey and undergraduate students Claire Griffin, Boyd Zapatka, and Katherine Willis
spent July in the Siberian Arctic working with the
Polaris Project.
Read the
Clarknews article.
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