Geography
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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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Students set sail for the Arctic on a VR excursion
Middle school students from Central Massachusetts embarked on a research trip to the Arctic, all while never leaving the Clark campus.
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Professor Harry Steward remembered as mentor, colleague, and cartographer
Henry “Harry” James Steward, professor emeritus of geography and renowned expert in cartography, passed away on Nov. 29, 2025, two decades after retiring from Clark University in 2005.
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From crab blood to carbon hoarding
Caden Thomas ’27 gets down in the mud for marine research.
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ETH BiodivX team launches groundbreaking Indigenous-led conservation fund at COP 30 in Belém
Revolutionary endowment model puts Indigenous communities in control of conservation funding decisions, transforming biodiversity finance from the ground up
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‘We must tell the story of the Earth’
Through a series of maps that he presented during his talk at Clark, Esri Story Maps founder Allen Carroll told his personal and professional story.
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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.