Polar Science Research Laboratory

Students set sail for the Arctic on a VR excursion Middle school students from Central Massachusetts embarked on a research trip to the Arctic, all while never leaving the Clark campus.

Getting ready for a big weekend with my Clark undergraduates unveiling their virtual reality projects focused on Arctic climate change!

New paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, first authored by Clare Gaffey (Clark Ph.D. ‘24): “Environmental factors associated with fall phytoplankton blooms in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas“

Something exciting is happening!

So many hours in the science lab onboard the Laurier for Clark Ph.D. student Morgan Lehman.

Clark University undergraduate Ella Christie sampling seawaters from Niskin bottles that have just been filled from the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Utqiagvik, Alaska.

Deploying the compact optical profiling system (measuring light) in the Chukchi Sea, happy to see the sun!

2025 Clark team conducting Distributed Biological Observatory fieldwork aboard the Canadian icebreaker Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Just passing through Bering Strait with Little Diomede and Big Diomede islands in the background!

Huge congratulations to Abby Beilman who just successfully defended their M.S. thesis in Environmental Science & Policy: “Changes in Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in the Blackstone River Watershed: Drivers and Implications for Climate Change”.

Please join me in congratulating Abby, who did an absolutely outstanding job!!

Abby will leave Clark with both a B.A. degree (Environmental Science/Earth System Science major, Political Science minor) and an M.S. degree (Environmental Science & Policy) in only five years through our Accelerated Degree Program. Abby is now headed to the Ph.D. program at Michigan State University. Congratulations Abby, you are a superstar!!