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Click here to see photos taken at the event. November 3: HERO Fellow featured on local media. 
HERO Fellow Carissa Williams (shown at the right in the photo and Clark IDCE
student Hanna Muller) were featured by the local daily Worcester
Telegram Gazette in an article titled "Worcester aims to reduce global warming
emissions." MS WORD PDF
September: New Clark geography faculty members become associated with HERO-CM project. Dr. Colin Polsky and Dr. John Rogan, both assistant professor who joins Clark geography faculty in fall semester of 2003, became affiliated with HERO-CM project. Summer of 2003August 15: Research paper submission.Carissa sent the paper for the Biological Bulletin on time, thus accomplishing one of HERO’s major goals for the summer. August 4: Conclusion of HERO Summer Program The three HERO-REU fellows completed their survey of local water system managers and submitted their report to HERO central office on time. July 31: NOAA Grant Proposal Submission HERO-CM team member Ke Chen submitted to NOAA a grant proposal to request supplemental funding for HERO-CM. June 17: HERO group visited the University of Massachusetts HERO group visited the Resources Mapping & Land Information Systems Lab of the School of Natural Resources Conservation at UMass. HERO group entered a tentative agreement with UMASS colleagues that would allow HERO fellows to digitize 1951 land-use maps of southern New England. A vector-to-raster conversion software was purchased to accomplish this task. June 4: Initiation of HERO-CM Summer Program Three HERO-REU students (Yasmin Bowers, Maatsi Angwafo and David Kent) went to HERO central office at Penn State University to attend HERO-REU workshop. The focus of this year's HERO-REU work is vulnerability of community water systems to climate change and hydrological hazards. May 21-25: HERO All-Hands Meeting at Clark HERO Network had four days "all-hands" meeting at Clark. During the meeting, HERO-CM team members participated in intensive writing workshop and completed three collaborative draft papers (on vulnerability, land-use change, and landscape shaping events respectively) in accordance with the work agreement reached at previous Kansas "all-hands" meeting. May 8: The Worcester Brownfield Conference at Clark The Conference was sponsored by the Worcester Mayor's Office. More than 300 people from the local businesses, communities, universities, non-governmental organizations and city government attended the conference. HERO fellow Hua Wang made presentation on Worcester brownfield mapping and database development on behalf of HERO group. Spring of 2003April 29: HERO Fellows made graduation presentation to Clark communityApril 27: HERO Fellows attended 2003 Clark Academic Spree Day HERO Fellows gave poster presentations at the 2003 Academic Spree Day. The following posters are downloadable in PDF: "Methods to Compare the Accuracy of Different Types of Land-Use Change Models at Multiple Resolutions." By Jeffrey Malanson '03 "Conservation Effectiveness: An Analysis of Future Conservation Projects and Their Ability to Protect Against Conflict from Development." By Patrick Morris '03 "A Study of Energy Efficiency for Residential Space Heating in New England." By Hua Wang '04 "Land-Use Change Analysis Across HERO Study Sites." By Nicholas Malizia '05 March 26: 2003-04 HERO-REU Class was selected The HERO-CM completed its new HERO-REU recruitment work. Fellowship has been offered to following Clark students: David Kent, Chris Lippitt, Carissa Willisams, Matthew Holden, Nick Malizia (alum of 2002-03 HERO Class), Yasmin Bowers, Maatsi Angwafo. March 3-9: HERO-CM staff and fellow students presented at 2003 AAG Conference From March 3 to March 9, HERO-CM staff and students attended the 2003 annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in New Orleans and interacted with HERO researchers from other sites. Gil Pontius made presentation on land-use modeling. Ke Chen provided a HERO-CM site overview (PowerPoint) as part of an ongoing collaborative project on comparative analysis of vulnerability and adaptation to drought across the four HERO sites (PDF). HERO-CM fellow students attended AAG poster sessions. Their individual posters in PDF can be downloaded below: Jamie Mohr: Assessing the Vulnerability of Central Massachusetts, Using the HERO Protocol Nick Malizia: Monitor Aquatic Nutrients in the Tatnuck Brook Watershed Hua Wang: A Study of Household Energy Efficiency for Space Heating in New England Region Feb. 14: Link between HERO-CM and Harvard Forest strengthened On Feb. 14, HERO-CM team members Billie Lee Turner II, Gil Pontius, Ke Chen, Colin Polsky, and Clark Ph.D. students Stephen McCauley and Alexender Pulsipher visited Harvard Forest (HF), a Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) site administered by Harvard University. They met HF Director David Foster and colleagues as well as researchers from University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth College. They discussed prospects of research collaboration o transitions of agricultural landscape in Massachusetts and Southern New England. Feb. 1 2003-04 HERO-REU Summer Fellowships are open for application HERO-CM office announces open competition for 2003-04 HERO-REU summer fellowships. We are looking for a group of highly motivated undergraduate students, who are enrolled at any accredited New England college (including Clark). Fellows are paid for eight weeks' work, beginning in June 4, 2003. Fellows selected as REUs (standing for Research Experience for Undergraduates) will attend a two weeks workshop to be held at Penn State University from June 8 to June 22. Feb. 30: HERO Fellow gave presentation to the Worcester Brownfield Summit On the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year (Feb. 30), Hua Wang (HERO Fellow '02-'03, an international student from China), gave a presentation to Worcester Mayor and city officials on local brownfields. Click here to see her presentation.
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