Research
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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.”
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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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‘We depend on fungi for absolutely everything’
Tabima Lab expands research with $956K National Science Foundation grant
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Building a clean-energy future, brick by brick
Chemistry Professor Julio D’Arcy leads a student research team to develop state-of-the-art technology aimed at improving human lives.
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Rags to Rags: The multi-generational ‘shock’ of the Victorian Poor Law
When governments end social programs like cash transfers to economically disadvantaged people, what is the impact on their children, their grandchildren, and beyond?
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Connecting sunlight and forests to curbing climate change
The climate benefits of some carbon projects may be overestimated because they don’t account for changes in albedo — the percentage of sunlight that a forest reflects or absorbs, making it cooler or hotter — in their calculations, according to Geography Professor Christopher Williams and his peers.
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Protecting Amazon’s Indigenous lands can improve human health, study finds
Indigenous Territories in the Amazon rainforest can help buffer and protect humans from diseases, according to a recent study.
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Clark makes its presence known at Climate Week
Clark faculty, administrators, and alumni are in New York to contribute to the important global conversations taking place at Climate Week NYC, billed as the world’s second-largest climate gathering.
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Economic Geography journal at 100
The global field of economic geography marks a significant milestone this year: the 100th anniversary Economic Geography, a Clark-owned, internationally recognized scholarly journal.
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Could rising temps mean more infections?
Doctoral student Lauren Parry studies how humans may be able to fend off microscopic fungi