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James S. Clark
Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science
Environmental Sciences and Policy
jimclark@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0338
A201 LSRC, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Grants
Determining forest recruitment change through the integration of NASA Earth Observation Data and predictive modeling
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Pennsylvania State University ·
2024 - 2027
Collaborative Research: Continent-wide forest recruitment change: the interactions between climate, habitat, and consumers
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2022 - 2026
NSF2026: EAGER Identifying microbes' population-level environmental responses using Bayesian modeling
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2020 - 2025
Collaborative Research: Combining NEON and remotely sensed habitats to determine climate impacts on community dynamics
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2018 - 2022
The bridge from canopy condition to continental scale biodiversity forecasts, including the rare species of greatest conservation concern
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ·
2020 - 2022
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2019 - 2022
Generative models to forecast community reorganization with climate change
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Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ·
2017 - 2019
EAGER-NEON: Probabilistic forecasting of biodiversity response to intensifying drought: A proposal to combine NEON with national climate, species, and trait data bases
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2015 - 2018
LTER: The Interacting Effects of Hydroclimate Variability and Human Landscape Modification in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by University of Georgia ·
2002 - 2018
Collaborative Research: Climate Change Impacts on Forest Biodiversity: Individual Risk to Subcontinental Impacts
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2012 - 2017
CDI-Type II: Integrating Algorithmic and Stochastic Modeling Techniques for Environmental Prediction
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2009 - 2014
Jim Clark IPA
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Forest Service ·
2013 - 2014
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Forest climate requirements change through species life history
Fellowship
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2013 - 2014
Pathogen Mediated Diversity and Response to Changing Climate
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2010 - 2014
Fitting Models of the Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance to Data from Marine Mammal Populations
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Office of Naval Research ·
2010 - 2014
Effects of drought on competition for water in southeastern Forests
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Forest Service ·
2009 - 2013
Dynamic Sensor Networks-Enabling the Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction of Biophysical Change in a Landscape
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2006 - 2012
Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Role of Seedling Pathogens in Temperate Forest Recuitment
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2007 - 2010
Collaborative Research: SEI(BIO)--Automated Methods for Generating High Resolution GIS Databases from Remotely Sensed Data for Biodiversity Predictions
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2004 - 2009
Integration of Data and Models to Assess Forest Biodiversity
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2004 - 2008
The 2nd Summer Institute: Uncertainty in Ecological Inference, Forecasting, and Decision-Modern Statistical Computation
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2005 - 2006
Experimental and Model Analysis of Large Disturbance Consequences for Forest Diversity
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2000 - 2005
Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought Cycles and Impacts on the Northern Great Plains
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2002 - 2005
Rates of range expansion in eastern trees based on molecular and fossil records.
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2001 - 2005
A Summer School: Uncertainty and Variability in Ecologial Inference, Forecasting, and Decision--An Introduction to Modern Statistical Computation
Institutional Support
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2004
BDEI: Computation and uncertainty in ecological forecasting
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2001 - 2002
Doctoral Dissertation: Forest Response to Climate Change: Integrating seed dispersal models and molecular markers with the paleoecological record.
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2000 - 2002
Doctoral Dissertation: The Importance of Biomass Burning in the Boreal Forest: Implications of Future Climate Change
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1999 - 2001
Forest Succession in a C02 Enriched Environment: Growth Responses of Individuals, Species, and Communitites in the Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer And Storage
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Department of Energy ·
1997 - 2000
The Role of Fire in the Southern Appalachian
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Department of Agriculture ·
1998 - 1999
Graduate Fellowship for Philip Camill
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency ·
1996 - 1999
EPA Graduate Fellowship; Philip Camill
Fellowship
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency ·
1996 - 1999
EPA Graduate Fellowship for Philip Camill
Fellowship
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency ·
1996 - 1999
Dissertation Research: Life History and Demography of Southern Appalachian Trees: Growth and Mortality
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1997 - 1999
Vegetation Response to Climate Variability in Coastal Lake Michigan Sand Dunes
Fellowship
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1996 - 1998
Dissertation Research: Disequilibrium Dynamics of Boreal Permafrost Peatlands During Transience to a Warmer Climate
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1996 - 1998
Prehistoric Biomass Burning at Local to Regional Scales in Eastern North America
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1995 - 1998
The Role of Fire in the Southern Appalachian
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Forest Service ·
1996 - 1997
Dissertation Research: Genetics and Evolution of Subdioecy in Astilbe biternata
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1995 - 1997
Sediment Records of Long-term Interactions between Wildfire and Bark Beetle Outbreaks at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge ·
1994 - 1995
Workshop: Sediment Records of Biomass Burning
Conference
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1994 - 1995
The Role of Fire in Prehistoric Times of Rapid Climate Change
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1992 - 1994
Sediment Charcoal and PAH Analysis
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Forest Service ·
1993 - 1994
