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Rinku Roy Chowdhury completed her bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Environmental Science at Wellesley College, a master's degree in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development at the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in Geography at Clark University. Before returning to Clark in 2015, she taught geography at Indiana University at Bloomington and co-directed the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT). Prior to that she was a faculty member in the University of Miami’s Department of Geography and International Studies and the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.
Roy Chowdhury's research focuses on the institutional, ecological and spatial diversity of human-environment interactions in forest-agricultural mosaics (Mexico), urbanizing ecosystems (multiple sites in the U.S.), and coastal mangrove vulnerability to anthropogenic and climate change (the Americas and South Asia). She is particularly interested in linking theoretical, methodological and field-based approaches from the social and ecological sciences to understand smallholder land and agribiodiversity management, how institutional structures and local agency interact to shape landscapes, and the evolution of adaptive strategies in the face of climate and political-economic change. She is active in the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network (primarily affiliated with the Florida-Coastal Everglades and Baltimore Ecosystem Study sites) and as a member of the Global Land Project's scientific steering committee.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Geography, Clark University, 2003
- M.S. in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, University of Georgia, 1996
- B.A. in Computer Science and Environmental Science, Wellesley College, 1994
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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A mature land-system science has deepened its conceptualization of environment
Progress in Environmental Geography
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2024
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Cross-scale social drivers of yard vegetative outcomes in the American residential macrosystem.
Cities and the Environment
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2024
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Homogenization or Environmental Injustice in Urban Landscapes? A Comparative Analysis of Land Cover Across Six Diverse Cities.
Landscape and Urban Planning
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2024
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Design principles, landscape change and environmental history in New England’s Forest Commons
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2023
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A mature land-system science has deepened its conceptualization of environment
American Association of Geographers
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03-26-2023
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2023
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Urban stream restoration and justice: Integrating political ecology & coupled natural-human systems frameworks.
American Association of Geographers
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Virtual Presentation
02-27-2022
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2022
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Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2022
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Vol. 119
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Issue #7
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Ecological homogenization of soil properties in the American residential macrosystem
Ecosphere
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2022
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Vol. 13
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Issue #9
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Cross-scale social drivers of yard vegetative outcomes in the American residential macrosystem
Ecological Society of America
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08-04-2021
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2021
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Long-term agricultural nutrient trends in the Florida Everglades: Implications for governing diffuse water pollution
American Association of Geographers
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Virtual/Seattle WA
April
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2021
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Awards & Grants
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PIRE: Co-Creating Research and Education Capacities to Understand, Visualize and Mitigate Climate-Change Impact Cascades and Inequities in Central Mexico
National Science Foundation
Apr. 1, 2023 - Mar. 31, 2026
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Urban Faculty Fellowship
Clark University
May. 15, 2024 - Jun. 30, 2025
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Urban Faculty Fellowship
Clark University Collaborative for Community Engagement
May. 15, 2024 - Jun. 30, 2025
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Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged Student Learning for Ecological Change: Restoring Broad Meadow Brook & Blackstone Watershed for Climate Resilience
Provost's Innovation Fund Award
Jan. 1, 2022 - Dec. 31, 2022
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Food Studies Undergraduate Concentration Development
Provost's Innovation Fund Award
Jan. 1, 2022 - Dec. 30, 2022
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Collaborative Research: MSB-FRA: Alternative futures for the American Residential Macrosystem
NSF
Jan. 1, 2017 - Dec. 31, 2021
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Priming Bold Clark-UNAM Co-Creation of Climate-Change Education & Research Innovations
Provost's Innovation Fund Award
Jan. 1, 2022
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SRS RN: Social-environmental homogenization, vulnerability and stress along urban to rural gradients in the continental U.S.
NSF
Jul. 1, 2021
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Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award
Clark University
2020
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Curriculum to Careers Faculty Fellowship
Clark University
2020
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Charles Bullard Fellowship
Harvard University
2023
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Urban Faculty Fellowship
Clark University
2024
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