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A long tradition of pioneering geographic scholarship
With its highly ranked graduate and undergraduate programs, Clark is one of the best places in the world to study the dynamics of place, space and environment. As an undergraduate or graduate student, you will have an opportunity to work with nationally and internationally known faculty to examine why places are different, how those differences shape how we live and how we in turn shape our environment. In addition, you'll have access to exciting technologies, such as geographic information system software, satellite imagery and spatial databases, for analyzing and exploring your world. Learn more about why Clark is a great place to study geography.
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NRC ranked top 10
Clark's Graduate School of Geography was ranked first in one overall
category in the revised NRC rankings and placed in the top-10
for the other three overall categories, thus confirming Clark's
position as one of the nation's top geography programs.
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Dr. Anthony Bebbington new director
The Graduate School of Geography is proud to announce Dr. Anthony "Tony"
Bebbington as the new Director. Tony comes to Clark as an esteemed scientist and National
Academy of Sciences Fellow.
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Books written or edited by our faculty and special issues of journals
The
Graduate School of Geography has been associated with many landmark books
over the course of its long existence. Ranging from research
monographs, through research based edited collections, agenda setting
statements and text books, these works have together helped shape important
parts of our discipline. This tradition continues through to the
present.
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Latest News
Geography and Music double major Andrew (A.J.) Shatz was awarded a $500 stipend for receiving 1st prize in the RSSG/GISSG/CSG Student Illustrated Paper Competition for his poster titled, "Characterizing the Distribution of the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, Massachusetts using Mahalanobis Typicality."
The winter issue of Geography News is now online!
Assistant Professor Karen Frey contributed to the 2011 Arctic Report Card's collection of scientific essays, and participated on a panel of three distinguished researchers. The panel presented a live webinar and a Q&A session with reporters from the Associated Press, Reuters, ClimateWire, and others. Read more
Prof. Colin Polsky has been appointed co-Convening Lead Author for the Land-Use and Land-Cover Change chapter of the National Climate Assessment (NCA). The NCA, commissioned by the Office of Science & Technology Policy in the White House, is the official U.S. statement about impacts and vulnerabilities associated with climate variability and change.
Wallace A Atwood Lecture Series Thursday, October 13 and 14, 2011. featuring, Karen Seto, Assoc. Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Yale University, "Urbanization Trends in China: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability" Read more
Prof. Yuko Aoyama (PI) has been awarded a $269,999 National Science Foundation grant for support of the project entitled "The Global Shift in R&D Alliances: Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the Quest for the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) Markets." Read more
Read NASA Blogs' Q&A with Karen Frey: At the Seams of Science.
Congratulations to Hannah J. Tirrell-Wysocki, recent graduate of the Global Environmental Studies program with a minor in Geography. Hannah was recently recognized by the University for her outstanding Leadership in Sustainability. Read more
Clark's School of Geography now has a web album! Check out our photos from Commencement, and keep your eyes open for highlights and updates from Geography events.
Tony Bebbington, Director, has recently been awarded a fellowship on "Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America" from Free University of Berlin/Lateinamerika-Institut, for 2011-12.
A recent article in Nature details the "good news for aspiring geoscientists. Job opportunities at all career stages are on the rise." Read more
Anthony Bebbington, Susan Hanson, Roger Kasperson, Robert Kates, and Billie Lee Turner II were honored by The National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. on March 15th, 2011. Read more
See the updated Undergraduate Guide to the Major!
Prof. Gil Pontius co-authored "Comparison of Three Maps at Multiple Resolutions: A Case Study of Land Change Simulation in Cho Don District, Vietnam," an article published in the first 2011 edition of The Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Read more
Tony Bebbington, Director has been appointed by the Minister of Economy of El Salvador to Chair a blue ribbon committee that will monitor a strategic environmental assessment metal mining in the country. The assessment will serve as the basis for determining national mining policy and the conditions under which the country will permit hard-rock mining in the future.
Tom Koch '71 NEW BOOK: In Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground (University of Chicago Press, 2012) Tom, a medical geographer, makes a new and important argument. It is in the mapping of individual cases of illness as group events that we have come to understand disease as a public thing affecting general populations. Read more
Prof. Christopher Williams has been funded by NASA The Science of Terra and Aqua as a Co-I on a 3-year, $866,082 project examining remotely sensed albedo trends related to land cover change and disturbances.
As of September 2010 Prof. Deb Martin has been appointed Book Review Editor of Urban Affairs Review. She was also appointed to the Editorial Boards of the Urban Affairs Review and Journal of Geography in Higher Education last year.
Prof. Karen Frey has been funded by the NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science Program for a proposal entitled "An interdisciplinary study of recent ice sheet melt, sea ice decline & enhanced ocean biological productivity along the Amundsen Coast, West Antarctica." Frey is a co-PI on the 3-year $707,112 grant, collaborating with Dr. Sarah Das at the Woods Hole Oceanograhic Institution and Dr. Matthew Evans at Wheaton College. Read more
Prof. Kulakowski was quoted in the L.A. Times article, "Bark beetles kill trees, but may not raise fire risk".
Prof. Chris Williams is the co-author of a recent report in Nature, "the leading weekly international science journal" 13 October 2010, "Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply". Read More
Recent PhD research grant awards. Read more