Geography
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From crab blood to carbon hoarding
Caden Thomas ’27 gets down in the mud for marine research For many Clark students, summer internships open doors to unexpected opportunities. For Caden Thomas ’27, that door was an internship in the mudflats of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Thomas, an environmental science and policy major with a minor in geography in the School of Climate, Environment,…
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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.
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Clark alum Margaret Wickens Pearce named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
Prestigious award celebrates Pearce’s cartography recognizing Indigenous legacies
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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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‘I wanted to be in the communities’
From global to grassroots, Solange Biandaky-Badji, Ph.D. ’08, is a leader
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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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Polar research blooms inside the hot spots
Ella Christie ’27 joined Geography Professor Karen Frey’s Polar Science Research Laboratory team in the Northern Bering Strait and the Southern Chukchi Sea to conduct studies of the water, part of a multidisciplinary Arctic ocean-sampling program.
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‘We stepped out of our comfort zone’
HERO students find common ground in researching outcomes of urban tree-planting program