Faculty research
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Will N.Y. and Conn. residents forgo greener, lusher lawns to protect their children and pets?
Clark economist Robert Johnston contributes to new tool aimed at curbing fertilizer ‘hot spots’ and polluted waterways
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Why do traveling icebergs speed up in warmer ocean waters?
The physics behind ice blocks’ melting helps propel them, Clark-Paris study reveals
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Once upon a time in Bollywood
Professor Gohar Siddiqui explores how Hindi remakes of popular U.S. films have reflected — and helped shape — global culture.
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Iran’s low cost, high reward strategy with International Relations Professor Michael Butler
Michael Butler, professor of international relations, analyzes the war in Iran.
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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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Geographer James McCarthy to be recognized with Career Award at AAG conference
Geography Professor James McCarthy will be honored with the Distinguished Career Award by the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) specialty group within the American Association of Geographers.
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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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Worcester students learn the language of chemistry at Clark
Since coming to Clark in 2022, Professor Julio D’Arcy has welcomed Worcester middle and high schoolers and their teachers to Clark labs. His goal is to show students that chemistry is nothing to fear — that it’s just part of life.