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Marsh Director named to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Committee
Rob Johnston, Director of the Marsh Institute and Professor of Economics at Clark University has been named to the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences, National Research Council Committee that has been established to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Stock Rebuilding Plans of the 2006
Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (FCMRA). The Committee will undertake an analysis of the effects of the Magnuson Stevens Act (MSA)
(and subsequent amendments) mandate to rebuild overfished stocks, including an evaluation of success in stock rebuilding, and the
identification of changes made to fisheries management in response to rebuilding requirements. More »
Frey Contributes to Arctic Report Card; joins live media briefing
Karen Frey, Research Assistant Professor at the Marsh Institute and Assistant Professor of Geography in the Graduate School of Geography,
contributed to the 2011 Arctic Report Card's collection of scientific essays, along with an international team of 121 scientists from 14
countries. She was on a panel of three distinguished researchers who recently presented the live webinar and conducted a Q&A session
with reporters from the Associated Press, Reuters, ClimateWire, and others. Click here
to view the 2011 Arctic Report Card and read more.
Environmental Scientist Garners NSF Grant for Smart Grid Research
Jennie Stephens, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment and Research Assistant Professor at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (Science, Technology and Society Program) grant of $166,750 for her research on "Smart Grid: An Analysis of How Socio-Political Contexts Shape Energy Technology Development and Policy." This award is part of a collaboration with colleagues at the University of Minnesota and Texas A&M. More »
NSF Grants Foster Understanding of Biological Systems on Regional to Continental Scales
"Biological sciences writ large, it might be called. To better detect, understand and predict the effects of climate and land-use change on organisms and ecosystems at regional to continental scales, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 14 grants in macrosystems biology.'" Grants include "Ecological Homogenization of Urban America," of which Colin Polsky, Associate Professor of Geography and Clark's Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research & Active Pedagogy, is a Principal Investigator on this study. More »