Clark University Geography

The Graduate School of Geography at Clark University cordially invites you to attend this year’s Atwood Lecture featuring Mercedes Bustamante, ecologist and professor at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Please join us on Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 pm in Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center. Reception to follow.
We are honored to have Dr. Mercedes Bustamante presenting her talk, “Beyond forests: non-forested ecosystems and global change". The event is free and open to the public.

Next Monday, our second speaker in the Graduate School of Geography Colloquium Speaker Series, Dr. Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, will present his talk on the "National University of Singapore & The Chinese University of Hong Kong". This talk will be held on Monday, September 30th at 11:30am in the Lurie Conference Room. We hope to see you there!

New maps show where tree restoration might help curb climate effects.
'Until now, we didn't have the tools to tell the good climate solutions from the bad,' Clark scientist says.
The study by lead author Natalia Hasler, a research scientist at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, and co-author Christopher Williams, associate professor in the Graduate School of Geography, was published recently in the journal Nature Communications.

New maps show where tree restoration might help curb climate effects   As efforts to restore tree cover accelerate to help avoid runaway climate change, a study by Clark University researchers highlights how restoring tree cover can, in some locations, heat […]

Oliveira: TIAA’s Brazil farmland investments open door for smaller funds
Geography Professor Gustavo Oliveira was quoted in this Grist.org story about how the world’s largest investment funds, particularly TIAA, have put billions of dollars into Brazilian farmland, and how land grabbing impacts local communities. “The important role that TIAA plays is not just on its own, because it’s got deep pockets and it invests in a lot of land. It is that once TIAA has ventured deep, it then becomes possible for smaller pension funds and other investors to follow in its wake,” Oliveira said.

Who's behind the destruction of Brazil's Cerrado? Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price.

The 2023 Summer and Fall Issue of the Graduate School of Geography Newsletter is live!
Flip through to read about the accomplishments and news from our faculty, students, alumni, and staff!

Reach out to [email protected] with any questions, comments, or concerns.

https://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/gsg-summer-fall-2023-newsletter/

Thank you,
-The GSG

Cover photo: The El Tatio Geysers in Chile, PC: Dr. Jim Murphy

When homelessness surged during the pandemic in 2020, San Francisco set up city-sanctioned camps downtown (above), a few blocks from City Hall. Highly paid tech industry workers have “gone remote” and moved away, leaving San Francisco and other Bay Area cities struggling to find businesses and investors. They are becoming “hollowed out” in the center city, turning into “donut cities,” Geography Professor Mark Davidson explains.

Clark researcher: What’s eating the ‘donut cities’   American cities have been dealt a bad hand lately. Before the pandemic, boomtowns in the San Francisco Bay area drew thousands of technology workers to live and work there. […]