Geography
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Clark scientist contributes to study finding carbon markets aren’t yet accurately accounting for climate-caused risks like wildfire, drought
The U.S. forests involved in carbon-credit programs face significant and growing risks from climate-driven disturbances such as wildfire, drought, and insect outbreaks, according to a study published in Nature on May 20. Carbon credits are one form of market-based investment to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The study’s findings raise critical questions about…
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Two Clark students earn Fulbright Awards
Rowan Compton ’25, M.S. ’26, and Kaya Banka ’26 have received Fulbright Awards that will support their research abroad.
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Detention Centers, Migration, and Isolation with Professors Asha Best and Emma Shaw Crane
Clark University Professor Asha Best and Stanford University Professor Emma Shaw Crane discuss detention and migration in the United States and why the government chooses remote locations for detention centers.
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Clark GIS student lands internships at Esri, NOAA
Andre Bergeron ’25, M.S./GIS ’26, works at intersection of data science and environmental science
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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.
