Geography
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New crop of ‘HERO’ researchers to help protect Worcester’s trees
Five Clark University undergraduates recently joined a fight against a common enemy of tree lovers in Worcester and beyond: the Asian long-horned beetle. Imported to the United States via infested wood pallets from China and Korea in the 1980s, the invasive pest was discovered to have killed trees in New York City in 1996 and…
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Antarctica or bust: Clark’s southernmost research
For almost a century, Clark scientists have traveled to the frozen continent to understand its impact
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NOAA Fellows heading to summer research projects in Hawaii, Calif., Md.
Faye Harwell ’15, MS’16, has some words of advice for Clark University’s three Marsh-Mosakowski National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fellows this summer: You never know how you’ll end up using the invaluable experience gained through a research project for NOAA. Take larval samples. Harwell encountered plenty of aquatic larval species during the summer of…
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Envisioning a changed world
Professor Eastman’s exhibit depicts the troubling beauty of humans’ environmental impact
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2016 Climate Change Teach-In asks crucial questions about issue
The stakes are high. The planet is changing profoundly. What does it mean, what is possible, and what is needed? Clark University’s second Climate Change Teach-In on March 23 brought the campus together for a deep consideration of the challenges to the planet’s health. The day featured a variety of teach-in sessions and a campus-wide…
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Climate Change Teach-in: Researching dramatic changes at the planet’s ‘thermostat’
Session One of Clark’s Climate Change Teach-in 2016 on March 23 entailed several “new Earth conversations” framed by the question “What is changing, and why?” Faculty from many disciplines offered insights and perspectives on a variety of climate-change topics. Among the teach-in faculty was Karen Frey, associate professor at the Graduate School of Geography, who presented “A new look…
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A ‘pause’ in global warming?
Using data on photosynthesis, Clark geographer weighs in on climate change debate
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Author, activist Naomi Klein urges boldness on climate change
Naomi Klein did not mince words. “Climate change is a crisis of narrative, a crisis of world view and a crisis of spirit,” the author and activist told the audience packed into Clark University’s Atwood Hall, and another watching via livestream in Jefferson 320. Klein delivered the Feb. 26 President’s Lecture, which kicked off the University’s second…
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Clark geographers’ new study projects melting of Antarctic ice shelves will intensify
New research published today projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse, if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel consumption continue at the present rate. Ice shelves are the floating extensions of the continent’s massive land-based ice sheets.…