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Researchers in the field in Alaska

Faculty members in the Graduate School of Geography disseminate their research findings in many ways, through articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, GIS software innovation, conference presentations and proceedings, and popular publications.

All recent faculty publications can be found in Clark’s Digital Commons. The Commons brings together articles that the School’s current faculty members have published and is an indication of the creativity, breadth of interest, and productivity of our faculty.

Principal Investigator(s) Grant Title Funding Agency
Hamed Alemohammad Evaluating Performance of a Foundation Model for Optical Earth Observation on Downstream Tasks NASA
Lyndon Estes High Resolution Crop Analysis Cloud to Street
Lyndon Estes SERVIR: Unlocking the power of active remote sensing for ecosystem services modeling in the Amazon’s forest-agriculture interface NASA
Lyndon Estes Jurisdictional Forest Carbon Project Support TerraCarbon
Lyndon Estes The Climate-Food-Urbanization Nexus and the Precursors of Instability in Africa Department of Defense Minerva Research Institute / UCSB
Abby Frazier Pacific RISA: Building International Adaptation and Resilience to Changing Climate in the Pacific Islands East-West Center
Robert Gilmore Pontius and Gustavo Oliveira Irrigation as climate-change adaptation in the Cerrado biome of Brazil evaluated with new quantitative methods, socio-economic analysis, and scenario models NASA
Florencia Sangermano Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design US-Sao Paulo: Land use change, ecosystem resilience and zoonotic spillover risk. NSF
Christopher Williams NFCMS Update and Carbon Assessment for Forest Conservation Panning and Action Open Space Institute
Karen Frey RAPID: Impacts of increased Light Transmittance on Ocean Heating, Primary Productivity, and Carbon Cycling Across a Pacific Arctic Continental Shelf Gradient NSF
Abby Frazier Drought Early Warning and Response in Hawaii – Expanding and enhancing stakeholder-driven drought products and services

 

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Robert Gilmore Pontius LTER-Plum Island Ecosystems: The impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems NSF
John Rogan Planting resilient riparian forests for water supply and public health in under-served communities USDA/GroundworksRI

 

John Rogan Blackstone River Urban Tree Planting to Enhance Bird Habitat and Communities (RI) – match only NFWF/GroundworksRI

 

Florencia Sangermano How to Navigate and Chart a Course Forward for Women Graduate Students in GIScience University Consortium for GIS

 

Christopher Williams Avoided Deforestation as a Climate Opportunity in the US TNC
Lyndon Estes Enabling Crop Analytics at Scale AGData Acceleration Facility TetraTech/Farmerline
Abby Frazier Translating existing model results to aid in resource management planning for future precipitation extremes in Hawai’i and SE Alaska United States Geological Survey

 

Abby Frazier Routine Monitoring of Climate in the State of Hawai’i: Establishment of State Climate Divisions NOAA
Abby Frazier Scaling up the Hawai’i Drought Knowledge Exchange USFS
Karen Frey Remote sensing of river carbon fluxes to the ocean NASA/Northeastern
Robert Gilmore Pontius Methods and software to understand and build the MapBiomas data Instituto Humanize
John Rogan Revitalizing Hadwen Arboretum in Worcester’s Columbus Park Neighborhood Commonwealth of Mass Executive Office of Public Safety

 

Christopher Williams Decision support tools for global assessment of albedo impacts on NCS from reforestation and avoided deforestation TNC/EarthFund

 

Asha Best and Lyndon Estes Methodologies for just urban futures: Using geospatial tools to address police violence Urban Studies Foundation
Mark Davidson Organising the 21st Century City: An International Comparison of Urban Alliances as Citizen Engagement Henry Halloran Trust
Lyndon Estes A region-wide, multi-year set of crop field boundary labels for Sub-Saharan Africa Lacuna Fund
Lyndon Estes Creating open agricultural maps and ground truth data to better deliver farm extension services Tetratech for Gates Foundation
Lyndon Estes Combining spatially-explicit simulation of animal movement and Earth Observation to reconcile agriculture and wildlife conservation National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon Estes Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative Promotional Credits Award Amazon Web Services
Lyndon Estes Continued Development of the Mapping Africa Active Learning Platform Omidyar Network
Lyndon Estes SERVIR: Unlocking the power of active remote sensing for ecosystem services modeling in the Amazon’s forest-agriculture interface NASA
Lyndon Estes CNH2-L: Feedbacks between Urban Food Security and Rural Agricultural Systems National Science Foundation
Abby Frazier Translating existing model results to aid in resource management planning for future precipitation extremes in Hawai’i and SE Alaska United States Geological Survey
Abby Frazier Routine Monitoring of Climate in the State of Hawai’i: Establishment of State Climate Divisions NOAA
Abby Frazier Scaling up the Hawai’i Drought Knowledge Exchange USFS
Karen Frey RAPID: Impacts of increased Light Transmittance on Ocean Heating, Primary Productivity, and Carbon Cycling Across a Pacific Arctic Continental Shelf Gradient National Science Foundation
Karen Frey Remote sensing of river carbon fluxes to the ocean NASA Carbon Cycle Science
Karen Frey Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO)-A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region National Science Foundation
Deborah Martin Planting Trees for Improved Community Health in Two Small Low-Income Cities in Massachusetts US Department of Agriculture
James Murphy Governing Sustainability through Place-Making: Eco-districts in the Pittsburgh Metro Region National Science Foundation
Robert Gilmore Pontius LTER-Plum Island Ecosystems: The impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems National Science Foundation
Robert Gilmore Pontius LTER-Plum Island Ecosystems: Dynamics of coastal ecosystems in a region of rapid climate change, sea-level rise, and human impacts National Science Foundation
Robert Gilmore Pontius Methods and software to understand and build the MapBiomas data. Instituto Humanize
John Rogan Planting resilient riparian forests for water supply and public health in under-served communities USDA/GroundworksRI
John Rogan Urban Greenspace and Air Quality: Demonstrating the positive influence of the Hadwen Arboretum on Local Air Quality Clark University
John Rogan Assessing urban heat island effects in the Clark University Hadwen Arboretum Clark University
Florencia Sangermano Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design US-Sao Paulo: Land use change, ecosystem resilience and zoonotic spillover risk. National Science Foundation
Florencia Sangermano Essential Biodiversity Variables – ScaleUp – Harnessing the power of GEE and GEO BON to bring EBVs from concept to application-ready global solutions in service of society GEO-Google Earth Engine Program
Florencia Sangermano Urban Heat Islands, Mosquito biodiversity, and the effect of vegetation as a regulating service in a city of Argentina National Geographic Society
Rinku Roy Chowdhury Collaborative research: MSB:FRA: Alternative futures for the American Residential Macrosystem National Science Foundation
Christopher Williams Avoided Deforestation as a Climate Opportunity in the US The Nature Conservancy
Christopher Williams Decision Support Tools for Global Assessment of Albedo Impacts on NCS from Reforestation and Avoided Deforestation The Nature Conservancy

 

 

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