School of Climate, Environment, and Society
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Earth Month events will highlight Clark’s engagement with the environment
The launch year of Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society will culminate in April with a campuswide celebration of Earth Month.
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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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With AI’s assistance, researchers maximize Clark tool to reveal how our planet is changing
Working with Professor Pontius, Ph.D. student Antonio Fonseca aims to help scientists understand the ‘big picture’ in decades of land-cover data
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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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Of humans, crocodiles, and mangroves: Faculty launch Environmental Humanities program
A celebration of Clark’s new Environmental Humanities program featured faculty presentations on their current research, which spans the fields of language, literature, culture, history, sociology, and politics.
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Why climate ignorance proved deadly in 17th-century New England
What is the price that humans might pay for today’s spread of climate misinformation amid the emergence of AI? Professor Nathan Braccio describes how the lack of climate knowledge and experience contributed to English “colonial failures” of the 1600s.
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GIS Week mapathon expands rooftop solar dataset
During the Fall 2025 GIS and Practicing Geography Week, a group of Clark students gathered for a mapathon focused on rooftop solar detection.