Climate
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Clark’s HERO researchers help baking cities beat the heat
Over the past decade, Clark’s HERO student research fellows have assessed the growth and vigor of trees planted through the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Greening the Gateway Cities Program.
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New class to examine how art captures climate change over centuries
Students will probe themes of power and access in landscape paintings
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Leo Kerz ’26 has tracked the echoes in ecosystems
Leo Kerz ’26 collects 63,000 nature recordings to track ecosystem health
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Clark master’s students analyze water quality, impacts of climate change in Mexico
After six months conducting research and surveys in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo, Valeria Obregon Diaz, ES&P ’26, and Catalina Cuervo Maldonado, ES&P ’26, discovered pathogens and chemicals in the water and a lack of health insurance and air conditioning in a region with rising temperatures and notable heat-related illnesses.
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Earth Month events will highlight Clark’s engagement with the environment
The launch year of Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society will culminate in April with a campuswide celebration of Earth Month.
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Sprinting to space: Goddard, NASA, and Clark’s pathbreaking work in geospatial analytics
Robert Goddard’s groundbreaking innovation, developed in his Clark laboratory, launched the Space Age, propelling NASA’s rockets and eventually leading to the satellites that collect Earth observation data used in GIS — a field that Clark helped pioneer.
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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.
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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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Clark strengthens academic partnership with Ethiopia’s Wollo University
A new partnership with Wollo University was was announced at a Clark lecture by Dr. Teferi Abate, a senior research anthropologist at Yale.
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From crab blood to carbon hoarding
Caden Thomas ’27 gets down in the mud for marine research.
