{"id":28671,"date":"2026-06-04T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/?post_type=story&#038;p=28671"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:36:29","slug":"student-run-clark-consulting-gis-team-delivers-for-wildlife-conservation-society","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/student-run-clark-consulting-gis-team-delivers-for-wildlife-conservation-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-run Clark Consulting GIS team delivers for Wildlife Conservation Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-research-project-provides-an-experience-that-you-can-t-just-manufacture-on-your-own\">Research project provides \u2018an experience that you can\u2019t just manufacture on your own\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a research seminar offered by Clark\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/climate-environment-society\/\">School of Climate, Environment, and Society<\/a>, 13 undergraduate and graduate students beefed up their LinkedIn profiles this spring by adding one more experience: GIS consultant for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a global nonprofit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They followed in the footsteps of previous cohorts of the Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar, which operates as the Clark Consulting team. Geography professors Florencia Sangermano and John Rogan lead the seminar each spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Over the past 14 years, students in the class \u2014 many of them graduating from Clark\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/accelerated-degrees\/accelerated-masters\/\">4+1 Accelerated Master\u2019s Degree program<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/accelerated-masters\/geographic-information-science-ba-ms\/\">GIS<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/accelerated-masters\/environmental-science-and-policy-ba-ms\/\">environmental science and policy<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;have landed jobs at companies and organizations that develop and deploy geographic information system (GIS) technology. Their employers range from GIS and mapping software companies, like global market leader Esri, to utilities, city planning offices, parks, universities and research groups, and environmental nonprofits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group boxout has-lighter-green-background-color has-background is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-want-to-study-gis\">Want to study GIS?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major\/climate-environment-and-society-ba\/\">Major in climate, environment, and society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major\/environmental-science-bs\/\">Major in environmental science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major\/geography-ba\/\">Major in geography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/accelerated-masters\/geographic-information-science-ba-ms\/\">Accelerated M.S. in GIS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/18\/clark-built-dashboard-reveals-success-of-conservation-efforts-where-the-wild-things-are\/\">last year\u2019s seminar<\/a>, Wynnie Gross \u201924, M.S.-GIS \u201925, now works as a solution engineer on Esri\u2019s national government team in Washington, D.C. When searching for jobs last spring, she shared with employers a comprehensive dashboard she and her peers had built for the WCS using ArcGIS, a geospatial platform developed by Esri. The dashboard indicates how humans, fires, and even nighttime lights have affected WCS-managed areas in the Amazon and elsewhere in Latin America over various time periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/Wynnie-Gross-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Wynnie Gross \u201924, M.S.-GIS \u201925\" class=\"wp-image-28674\" style=\"width:250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wynnie Gross \u201924, M.S.-GIS \u201925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome to point to something that I worked on from the ground up,\u201d Gross said. \u201cI can link to it on my resume, and employers can see the work that I did. That\u2019s very valuable in today&#8217;s ultra-competitive job market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTechnology, and in particular geospatial technology, is moving so fast. Being able to showcase how we did a traditional GIS analysis, but also built an application on top of that, helped distinguish me from other applicants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Clark Consulting team updated and enhanced the dashboard, which Rogan said future cohorts will continue to maintain. WCS staff access the tool to analyze environmental trends and conservation impacts across the sites they manage in Central and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cBuilding the dashboard helped me understand how you take geospatial data and make it actionable.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 Wynnie Gross \u201924, M.S.-GIS \u201925 <\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The students presented their findings to WCS staff from around the world in a Zoom call in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Richmond-Crosset \u201925, M.S.-GIS \u201926, outlined projections on changing climate patterns. Under a worst-case scenario, he said, significant warming could occur by 2050, with the emergence of \u201ctwo new climate types \u2014 hyperthermal, which is hotter than tropical, and boreal, which is between cool and polar temperatures.\u201d The WCS strongholds expected to be most affected are the Gran Chaco of central South America, the Central Andes of Colombia, and the Maya Forest in the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula, according to Richmond-Crosset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students also expanded Clark Consulting\u2019s work to develop a \u201ccounterfactual\u201d matching framework to analyze the effectiveness of WCS nature strongholds, which include managed, protected land such as national parks, reserves, and Indigenous territories. Using Bolivia as a case study, they integrated map-based indicators that track changes in forest conditions, biodiversity intactness, and ecosystem integrity. They also compared the WCS areas to those that are unprotected, finding that the managed areas are \u201chighly intact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This area-to-area matching framework can be reproduced and scaled to other areas to provide a \u201cclearer understanding of local trends and impacts of WCS intervention,\u201d the students told the WCS staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cThat\u2019s important in consultancy to say, \u2018Look, you asked for A, but we can\u2019t get you A \u2014 B is the best thing you can get.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 jonathan palmer, Wildlife Conservation society<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To update the dashboard, the class reached out to Gross for support. \u201cNow that I work at Esri, I configure dashboards constantly, and&nbsp;I\u2019ve picked up some tips and tricks from being closer to the people who build the tech,\u201d she said, \u201cSo, with the 2026 cohort, I gave them access to all the underlying data that I had. Then I guided them on how to go about brainstorming the design of a dashboard, thinking about who will be using it and how they\u2019d use it day-to-day. I also&nbsp;helped answer general questions and was there as a resource when they got into technical roadblocks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students also ran into technical challenges when integrating the WCS\u2019 original counterfactual methodology and had to adjust the project\u2019s scope. Jonathan Palmer, executive director of conservation technology&nbsp;for the WCS, praised their ability to pivot quickly to a workable solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s important in consultancy to say, \u2018Look, you asked for A, but we can\u2019t get you A \u2014 B is the best thing you can get,\u2019 \u201d Palmer told the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He suggested that the Clark Consulting team spell out any limitations in their newly developed methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What WCS is looking to do with engagements like this is to get tighter and tighter alignment,\u201d he said, \u201csomething that is valuable both for you as students, giving you a research and consultancy experience, but also something that is valuable to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also attending the students\u2019 presentation was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/climate-environment-society\/about\/about-the-dean\/\">Lou Leonard<\/a>, D.J.A. Spencer Dean&nbsp;of the School of Climate, Environment, and Society. He recalled how he started his first official day at Clark last year by attending the 2025 cohort\u2019s presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt gave me the sense that I made the right decision. I came to the right place. This is a place that&#8217;s doing work where students are crossing over into applied work that matters,\u201d Leonard said. \u201cThe power of projects like this is that they build on each other and aren&#8217;t just one-offs. What you\u2019re doing and what your colleagues have done in past years is to build toward something even bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cIt was a super helpful to gain a real-world understanding of working on a longer project timeline with different objectives and collaborating with a team of people.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 Elise Beier \u201925, M.S.-ES&amp;P \u201926<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Gross, students found the Clark Consulting experience invaluable.<br><br>\u201cFor those of us pursuing research, it can be really easy \u2014 but also really defeating \u2014 to pour your time and energy and passion into a project that never actually breaks outside of academia,\u201d said Aidan Caron, a Ph.D. student in geography. \u201cHaving an opportunity to work on something that generates tangible real-world impact is an experience that you can\u2019t just manufacture on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pacifique Madibi, M.S.-GIS \u201926, already has worked for seven years at WCS. The organization provided a scholarship for him to attend Clark, where he\u2019s gained new perspectives. \u201cIt was really interesting for us, as students, to be exposed to this kind of experience in terms of deadlines, delivery, and quality for an organization like WCS,\u201d Madibi, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Rowan Compton \u201925, M.S.-GIS \u201926, the seminar capped off his five years at Clark, where he received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/09\/steinbrecher-fellow-spends-summer-with-keepers-of-the-pastures\/\">Steinbrecher Fellowship<\/a> to conduct GIS research in Brazil and contributed to a faculty-led National Science Foundation-funded project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not very often that you work in a group of 13 people. I think that&#8217;s much more like what it would be in the real world,\u201d Compton said. \u201cThis class brings together all aspects of GIS that I&#8217;ve done at Clark. It&#8217;s a compilation of everything that makes Clark\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/undergraduate-programs\/\">geography<\/a> program great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gross, meanwhile, said she puts her WCS experience to work daily, supporting federal health and science agencies such as NOAA, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development in their use of Esri tools and workflows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m helping large federal organizations make sense of their existing datasets and make&nbsp;them useful. Instead of doing one-off research projects, a lot of federal organizations are implementing large-scale mapping programs where they\u2019re tracking different metrics and then using that information to allocate resources accordingly,\u201d she said. \u201cThat&#8217;s essentially what we did for WCS, so in that way, building the dashboard helped me understand how you take geospatial data and make it actionable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2448\" height=\"1895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/Wildlife-Conservation-GIS-Research-Seminar-.jpg\" alt=\"Front row, from left, Luna Pagan, \u201927; Elise Beier \u201925, M.S.-ES&amp;P \u201926; Robert Moore, Ph.D. student in environmental science and geography; second row, from left, Pacifique Madibi, M.S.-GIS \u201926, Kalu Okigwe, M.S.-GIS \u201926; Abigail Phillips \u201926, M.S.-GIS \u201927; and Zach Baranowski \u201925, M.S.-GIS; back row, from left, Aaron Richmond-Crosset \u201925, M.S.-GIS \u201926; Daniel Neau \u201927; Rowan Compton \u201925, M.S.-GIS \u201926; and Aidan Caron, Ph.D. student in geography. Not pictured: Rory Dickinson \u201924, M.S.-GIS \u201925.\" class=\"wp-image-28696\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This year\u2019s cohort for the Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar included, front row, from left, Luna Pagan, \u201927; Elise Beier \u201925, M.S.-ES&amp;P \u201926; Robert Moore, Ph.D. student in environmental science and geography; second row, from left, Pacifique Madibi, M.S.-GIS \u201926, Kalu Okigwe, M.S.-GIS \u201926; Abigail Phillips \u201926, M.S.-GIS \u201927; and Zach Baranowski \u201925, M.S.-GIS; back row, from left, Aaron Richmond-Crosset \u201925, M.S.-GIS \u201926; Daniel Neau \u201927; Rowan Compton \u201925, M.S.-GIS \u201926; and Aidan Caron, Ph.D. student in geography. 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