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Robert and Esther Goddard in 1943

Esther Goddard’s fierce devotion to her husband kept his memory alive, and built a legend

Esther Goddard was meticulous, devoted, and fiercely in control of the narrative. While Robert Goddard is remembered today as the father of modern rocketry, a key reason we remember him at all is she worked tirelessly to ensure he never be forgotten.

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Sprinting to space: Goddard, NASA, and Clark’s pathbreaking work in geospatial analytics

Charles Slatkin speaks at the Robert and Esther Goddard Center of Innovation.

Clark alum spearheads 100th anniversary of Goddard rocket launch

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Robert Goddard’s life and work reimagined through Clark video game

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Gustavo Oliveira in a cotton field in Brazil

NASA recognizes Clark’s geospatial research via recent awards, years of grant funding

Robert Goddard’s spirit of innovation lives on through NASA-funded research in the School of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability and the affiliated Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics.

Gustavo Oliveira stands in a cotton field in Brazil

In Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, researchers study, model future climate change scenarios

As part of a $750,000 NASA-funded project, professors Gustavo Oliveira and Robert Gil Pontius Jr. of Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society have been modeling future, competing scenarios of agricultural expansion, given climate change, in Brazil’s Cerrado, known as the region‘s ”Water Tank.”

Antonio Fonseca measures land coordinates in a crop field in Brazil

With AI’s assistance, researchers maximize Clark tool to reveal how our planet is changing

Working with Professor Pontius, Ph.D. student Antonio Fonseca aims to help scientists understand the ‘big picture’ in decades of land-cover data

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Geography professor vies for $10M prize with Brazilian rainforest study

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