Geography
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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
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Lucian Kim ’92 is NPR’s man in Moscow
Lucian Kim ’92 calls himself a wanderer. The summer before his first semester at Clark University, he backpacked his way around Eastern Europe. He did it again two summers later — then spent his junior year studying abroad in Germany. He made his first trip to Russia that year as well. All that roaming has…
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Lucian Kim ’92 answers the Russia question
What do the Russian people think about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election?
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Clark research dean and alumni track the political drift of anti-globalization
As President Trump and other global leaders headed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, two international publications featured timely articles by Yuko Aoyama, associate provost, dean of research and professor of geography at Clark University, and three Clark geography alumni, examining the backlash against globalization. The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society published “Globalisation, Uneven Development…
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Clark GIS research informs protection efforts off California coast
Donation by Clark honorary degree recipient Jack Dangermond and his wife allows for preservation of 24,000 acres; Professor Eastman, Clark Labs partnered on study of land change