Environment and sustainability

  • Clark students receive summer NOAA fellowships

    Clark students receive summer NOAA fellowships

    This summer marks the seventh year Clark University students will put their education into practice through fellowships with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through a collaboration with the University’s Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise and George Perkins Marsh Institute, NOAA has invited three Clark undergraduates to conduct research at sites in Florida, Maryland, and Massachusetts. This year, for the…

  • GSOM to recognize alumnus entrepreneur for leadership, social responsibility

    GSOM to recognize alumnus entrepreneur for leadership, social responsibility

    Clark University’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM) will recognize Brad McNamara, MBA/M.S. ES&P ’13, with the 2018 Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Alumni Award. This annual award, presented as part of the University’s commitment to this United Nations-supported initiative, recognizes an individual for responsible leadership, ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability. McNamara will receive the award on…

  • Study raises concerns about safety of drinking water drawn from aquifers

    Study raises concerns about safety of drinking water drawn from aquifers

    Findings in Holliston 'have national and global significance for aquifer protection and human health,' researchers say

  • Alumni, employers share wisdom and advice with environmental science students

    Alumni, employers share wisdom and advice with environmental science students

    Clark alumni recently returned to campus to share their insights with budding environmental scientists about their educational and career pathways and strategies for how best to prepare for a successful professional future. The April 4 event, Practicing Environmental Science, was organized and hosted by Christopher A. Williams, director of the undergraduate program in Environmental Science and an associate professor…

  • Geography professor’s Nature article examines ecologists’ methods, scales for collecting data

    Geography professor’s Nature article examines ecologists’ methods, scales for collecting data

    A study led by Clark University geographer Lyndon Estes and published this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution suggests how ecologists might employ better methods and scales for collecting data on ecological phenomena. Ecologists study ecosystems by comparing changes over time and between different areas of a region or the world; they collect data by making on-site…

  • First-year students explore significance of area’s waterways

    First-year students explore significance of area’s waterways

    Geography professor's global research informs class' inquiry into local story of how Blackstone River shaped Worcester's development

  • Professor Johnston presents research at National Academies meeting on forest health

    Professor Johnston presents research at National Academies meeting on forest health

    The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington recently invited Robert Johnston, professor of economics, director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University and editor of the journal Resource and Energy Economics, to present research to inform a study on “The Potential for Biotechnology to Address Forest Health.“ An ad hoc committee has been charged by the…

  • Clark GIS research informs protection efforts off California coast

    Clark GIS research informs protection efforts off California coast

    Donation by Clark honorary degree recipient Jack Dangermond and his wife allows for preservation of 24,000 acres; Professor Eastman, Clark Labs partnered on study of land change

  • Via Problems of Practice course, students gain experience in monitoring conservation land

    Via Problems of Practice course, students gain experience in monitoring conservation land

    'This course gives me direction for what I want to do after graduation,' Olivia Barksdale '19 says