Top projects include agraponic food systems, a campus pub, and help for students struggling academically Each spring, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship program at Clark University holds the Ureka! Big Idea Challenge, a contest that encourages students to propose creative ideas that benefit the Clark community and beyond. The winners receive funding to help turn their…
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Clark geographer awarded NASA grants to study carbon release, uptake in U.S. forests
Christopher A. Williams, associate professor of geography in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, was recently awarded two grants from the National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) for a set of projects aiming to determine the balance of carbon uptake and release across forests in the United States using the latest satellite remote-sensing…
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NASA-funded climate change study focus of meeting at Clark
Christopher Williams, assistant professor of geography, welcomed a group of distinguished colleagues to a Nov. 22 project meeting at Clark University, where they continued to develop methods for more accurately measuring climate change. Williams and his fellow team members, whom he describes as “leaders in the field of remote sensing,” are in their third…
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Clark professor studies glacier contributions to sea level rise
Ninety-nine percent of all of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. However, according to a new study led by Alex Gardner, assistant professor in the Clark University Graduate School of Geography, “the world’s other land ice stored in glaciers—humble repositories of the remaining 1 percent of land…
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Clark scientist to lead NASA research on sea ice in Arctic
With support of a $735,192 NASA grant, Clark geographer and research scientist Karen Frey will lead a major NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program project from aboard icebreakers in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Two of her Ph.D. students will also be aboard the ICESCAPE expedition.