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World Nature Day on the 6th November at 12:30PM GMT

https://twitter.com/JasonWClay/status/1455897639577391113?s=20

Ending deforestation is no longer an option. At world leaders have agreed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. The spotlight is now on food and retail companies who have a key role to play and must take action on to meet net zero targets. End deforestation for

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Jason Clay on Twitter “World leaders agreed yesterday to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. Can food and retail companies take up the charge? We must end deforestation & conversion in supply chains. There is no without nature. 🌳  https://t.co/r...

Clark Geography.

Geography research documents solar farms’ negative effects on landscape | Clark Now | Clark University   If one tree is cut in the state of Rhode Island, do its residents make a sound? Probably not. However, when roughly 50 percent of solar farms were built […]

Clark Labs together with World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and the ASC - Aquaculture Stewardship Council are participating on a free webinar titled:

"Remove the Risk, Keep the Forest: Practical Tools for Deforestation-Free Seafood"

February 25, 2021
11:00AM-12:00PM Eastern Time

https://www.seafoodsource.com/webinars/remove-the-risk-keep-the-forest

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Clark Labs' Coastal Habitat Mapping Tool is helping seafood buyers to understand and reduce the environmental risks in their supply chains.

https://seafoodsustainability.org/track-your-farmed-shrimp-with-new-satellite-mapping-technology/

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Track Your Farmed Shrimp with New Satellite Mapping Technology - WWF Seafood Sustainability Seafood buyers are increasingly looking for ways to understand and reduce the environmental risks in their supply chains, notably in shrimp aquaculture. A new Coastal Habitat Mapping Tool by Clark Labs provides insights regarding habitat conversion which might answer that. Combining high quality sat...

Clark Labs' Ron Eastman and Jiena He just published a paper titled "A Regression-Based Procedure for Markov Transition Probability Estimation in Land Change Modeling".

A Regression-Based Procedure for Markov Transition Probability Estimation in Land Change Modeling Land change models commonly model the expected quantity of change as a Markov chain. Markov transition probabilities can be estimated by tabulating the relative frequency of change for all transitions between two dates. To estimate the appropriate transition probability matrix for any future date re...

Clark Labs' alumni, Assaf Anyamba (Ph.D, 1997) is featured in the new Netflix series Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything hosted by Latif Nasser.

In "Clouds" (Episode 5), Anyamba describes how massive amounts of NASA satellite-derived climate data and disease data from a variety of sources are combined using cloud computing technology and machine learning methods to map and forecast areas at potential risk for disease outbreaks globally. He also illustrates how these satellite measurements are related to focal ground observations of the environment and mosquito vector populations that drive disease outbreaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aZrftUPlk

Clark Labs' alumna Sarah Williams, a MIT Associate Professor, applies a data-driven approach to help cities function.

Sarah Williams: Applying a data-driven approach to help cities function MIT Associate Professor Sarah Williams conducts data-heavy urban research, which can then be expressed in striking visualizations, ideally generating public interest. She has also worked with other scholars on topics including criminal justice, the environment, and housing.

New paper by Clark University Geographers.

Clark geographers publish article on infrastructure investment in leading journal | Clark Now | Clark University   Professors and scholars from Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography contributed to an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that warns that large-scale infrastructure projects in tropical countries are undermining efforts to prevent climate change and...