Geography
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Stefanie Covino battles climate change one town at a time
Severe storms. Flooding. Drought. Erosion. Devastated communities struggling to rebuild. These doomsday headlines have become all too common, sweeping the news on a daily basis. In the face of climate change, communities are struggling with competing priorities and have difficulty focusing on climate resilience and conservation. The stakes are high. On the front lines of…
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Stakeholders applaud students’ ‘valuable work’ on Greening the Gateway Cities
As a budding biologist in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Lohr ’19 surveyed and mapped all the trees on her high school campus. Now an undergraduate at Clark University, she is pursuing her passion for trees on a much larger scale, through the Graduate School of Geography’s HERO (Human-Environment Regional Observatory) program. “This program was almost custom-made to…
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Just your typical 52-day field trip
In 1928, Clark students embarked on a transcontinental adventure — for credit
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Students receive Fulbright fellowships, other awards for postgraduate work and study
Three Clark University doctoral candidates and two recent graduates received prestigious fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and other programs to fund their postgraduate research, teaching, and study abroad. “At Clark we have a long-standing success in receiving Fulbright fellowships and other competitive awards. It reflects our tremendous strengths in graduate and undergraduate education, and…
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Clark HERO Fellows work to green Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities
Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities sport architectural reminders of their once-bustling industrial past: factories, warehouses, and ubiquitous triple-deckers, all built close to the street. What’s often missing from this picture? Trees. This summer, six Clark University undergraduate researchers have joined a multi-agency effort to increase the tree canopy to these 26 small- to mid-sized Gateway Cities, bringing cooling shade…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Professor Peet to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from American Association of Geographers
Three other geographers with Clark ties also to receive honors at AAG meeting