What's New Among Faculty

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.

Susan Hanson has been appointed editor in chief of Urban Geography, and to the editorial board of Environment and Planning A.

Deb Martin has been appointed to the editorial board of Urban Geography.

John Rogan has been appointed to the editorial board of the Professional Geographer.