Professor Tim Downs at Clark University specializes in environmental science and engineering, focusing on the interactions between human activities and environmental changes, and their impacts on health, ecosystems, and well-being. His work includes community-centered health system innovation, sustainable development, and environmental justice, using interdisciplinary approaches and collaborating with diverse stakeholders globally. Key projects involve the…

Professor Christopher Williams’s expertise is in terrestrial ecosystems, global environmental change, and climate change. He and his team engage in foundational research science on the climate impacts of forests. By combining state-of-the-art satellite remote sensing with big data geo-computation, the lab is quantifying the carbon emissions avoided by protecting forests, the removals of carbon with…