What's New
Among Faculty
Dianne Rocheleau presented a keynote address at the
University of the Andes in Bogota, Columbia in October 2009 as part of a
conference to inaugurate the new master's program in Geography
Jim Murphy awarded a $230,000 research grant from the
National Science Foundation's Geography and Spatial Sciences and Science,
Technology, and Society programs. The project: The Role of Information-Communication Technologies in Enterprise
Development and Industrial Change in Africa: Evidence from South Africa and
Tanzania, (co PI Padraig Carmody of Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland)
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0925151
Colin Polsky,
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).
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
Professor Karen Frey is featured in a four-part NOVA special talking about her climate-change research. Watch the series.
Colin Polsky and John Rogan received a 440K REU
undergraduate training award.
Colin Polsky awarded an LTER grant ($20,000) to train
students to use fine-scaled imagery of lawns for his work on suburbanization and
water.
Colin Polsky awarded, in collaboration with colleagues at
the US Forest Service, Arizona State Univ., Florida International Univ., and
Indiana Univ., $20k from NSF's LTER program to host two conferences (one at
Clark U.) on the topic of methods for integrating social and ecological science
analyses of lawn management and associated consequences.
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius receive $11,991 from the
National Science Foundation for additional support for their project entitled
CNH: Suburbanization, Water Use, Nitrogen Cycling, and Eutrophication in the
21st Century.
James Murphy has been appointed to the Editorial Board of
The Professional Geographer.
Colin Polsky and Susan Hanson have been
selected to serve on the NRC's new initiative, Directions for the
Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade, a guiding influence in geography
throughout Washington D.C. and the National Science Foundation.
Karen Frey, 2007, NSF/Arctic Natural Sciences Program grant
on Impacts of Sea Ice Variability and Polynya Formation on Biological
Productivity in the Northern Bering Sea.
Ron Eastman has been appointed as the Landry University
Professor.
Karen Frey (CoPI) has been awarded an NSF grant ($59,411)
for Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the
Arctic.
James Murphy has been awarded the 2007 Hodgkins Junior
Faculty Award
Deborah Martin, Geog. & Reg. Sci. and Law & Soc. Sci.-NSF
grant for Legalizing Community: Lawyers and Citizen Activism in Neighborhood
Disputes.
Colin Polsky and Gil Pontius have been
awarded a $20,000 supplement to their NSF LTER linked activities; these funds
will supplement their new NSF award.
Ron Eastman has been awarded the 2007 UCGIS Research Award
for the research contribution to GIScience embodied within the IDRISI software.
John Rogan has been named the 2007-08 Hayden Junior Faculty
Fellow for excellence in teaching and scholarship.
Colin Polsky (PI) and Gil Pontius (Co-PI)
have been awarded a CNH-NSF grant (54 months and $1,442,930) on Suburbanization,
Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling and Eutrophication in the 21st Century:
Interactions, Feedbacks and Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Coastal Zone.
The Clark project will work with the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole)
and the University of New Hampshire. The project will fund both
undergraduate and graduate students through the HERO program.
Yuko Aoyama has been appointed editor of Economic Geography,
and to the editorial board of GeoJournal.
B. L. Turner has been appointed to the editorial board of
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Susan Hanson has
been elected Chair of the Section 63 Human and Environmental Sciences, National
Academy of Sciences.
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