Geography
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Alumni discuss American Indian policy, law — and trust issues
Alumni Judy Dworkin, PhD ’78, and David Pijawka, PhD ’83, recently returned to Clark University to talk about their experiences in Arizona working with American Indians. Their talk, titled “The Challenges in Indian Country in the 21st Century: Planning, Law and Community,” was sponsored by the Graduate School of Geography and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Dworkin, head…
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Historian explores African-American exiles’ struggle against ‘King Cotton’
In a recent lecture at Clark University, Ousmane Power-Greene, professor of history, put words to the African-American struggle against “King Cotton” and the desire to find a homeland — and a place to build community. The Graduate School of Geography hosted Power-Greene on Sept. 14 as the first speaker in the school’s Fall 2016 Colloquium Speaker Series. His talk, titled…
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Researchers: Global warming leads to drier air, stressed plants
Dry air stresses plants just as much as dry soils, and this source of plant stress is becoming increasingly severe as the planet warms, according to a study published Sept. 5 in the journal Nature Climate Change. “Overall, the study underscores the potent role that dry air plays in causing of plant stress and limiting plant…
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Student explores sea-level rise, coastal resources in Hawaii
Not every college student gets to enjoy a summer in Hawaii, but that’s where Isabel Miranda ’17 was over the past few months — although she didn’t spend her days relaxing on the beach or riding the waves. In May, Miranda was named a Marsh-Mosakowski NOAA Fellow, and soon found herself in the Aloha State,…
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Grad student’s cruise director job launches her research on Arctic wildlife
Clark University graduate student Meghan Kelly’s summer job as a cruise director might bring to mind visions of island hopping, basking in the sun and relaxing poolside in a deck chair. In actuality, Kelly’s job with Heritage Expeditions, a New Zealand-based expedition travel company, takes her places far outside of a typical Caribbean cruise, to Antarctica,…
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‘There is no syllabus for this’
Students hone research skills by assessing Worcester’s trees after beetle invasion
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Close-ups from far away
Free, high-resolution satellite imagery soon to be available to Clark faculty and students
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Francis Lelo, Ph.D. ’94, is leading Kenya’s Laikipia University to prominence
When Francis Lelo, Ph.D. ’94, was a boy in rural Kenya, the local school was seven kilometers from his home. His family had no access to a vehicle, and the teachers punished any tardiness with a smack across the backside with a cane. The clear benefits of punctuality meant that simply walking to school was not…
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Clark geographer in Australia to study climate change, drought and the death of trees
Scientists predict that 2016 is on track to become the hottest year on record. They estimate that record-breaking temperatures will stem in part from the current El Niño event, which affects weather worldwide. But they say climate change is also playing a role this year, just as it has for “the previous 17 record-breaking hot years back to 1937,” according…
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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…
