As the librarian for Environmental Information Services at Harvard, I provide research help to scholars from throughout the university and beyond. I have close working relationships with colleagues in Lamont Library, Cabot Science Library, Government Information Services, the Harvard Map Collection, and Numeric Data Services. I serve on the management team of Lamont Library, and in the past I have also been Interim Manager of Government Information Services and U.S. Federal Depository Library Coordinator at Harvard.

As a contributing editor of Environment, I write a bimonthly column, "Bytes of Note," on environmental and sustainability issues.

Background

Previously, I worked for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago; as a watershed management consultant to the Massachusetts Metropolitan Distriction Commission (now the state Department of Conservation and Recreation); as a visiting instructor at Mt. Holyoke College; and as a library assistant at MIT's Lindgren Library of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences.

My Ph.D. dissertation was on coastal flooding and socioeconomic status. I did coursework in environmental risks and hazards, water resources, and global change. I grew up in northern Virginia, and my family hails from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. I live west of Boston about halfway to Worcester. I am a ham radio operator, callsign W1XW.

Education

B.A., Earlham College Geology

M.A., University of Chicago Geography

M.S., Simmons College Library and Information Science

Ph.D., Clark University Geography

Additional Training

ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute. August 7-12, 2005. Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, and Association of College and Research Libraries.

ICPSR Summer Program. Data Librarianship. August 16-20, 2004. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Ann Arbor, MI.

"Bytes of Note" Columns in Environment

"Environmental Twitter." September/October 2009, pp. 5-6.
"Academic Geography for Sustainability." May/June 2009, pp. 5-6.
"U.S. Government Information." January/February 2009, pp. 5-6.
"Groundwater: A Tale of Two Settings." November/December 2008, pp. 5-6.
"Sustainability Theater." September/October 2008, pp.6-7.
"Climate Policy's Quiet Giants" [on reinsurance]. July/August 2008, pp 6-7.
"The Human and Social Costs of War." March/April 2008, p. 3.
"War and Sustainability: The Economic and Environmental Costs." January/February 2008, pp. 3-4.
"Seeking Solutions for Suburbia." November 2007, pp. 3-4.
"Unsustainable Suburbia." October 2007, pp. 3-4.
"Environment on Film." September 2007, pp. 3-4.
"Environment and Human Rights." July/August 2007, p. 3.
"Hunting in Context." June 2007, pp. 3-4.
"Exploring Environmental Archives." May 2007, p. 3.

Additional Publications

Clark, G. E. 2008. "Making Climate News." Review of M. T. Boykoff and J. M. Boykoff, 2007, “Climate Change and Journalistic Norms: A Case Study of US Mass-Media Coverage,” Geoforum 38(6), 1190–04; and M. T. Boykoff, 2008, “Lost in Translation? United States Television News Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change, 1995—2004,” Climatic Change 86(1-2), 1–11. In "Editors' Picks," Environment 50(4), pp. 3-4.

Clark, G. E. 2008. Review of C. Park, Dictionary of Environment and Conservation, 2007, Oxford University Press. In "Books of Note," Environment 50(4), pp. 66-67.

Clark, G. E. 2007. "Environment and Conservation." In C. LaGuardia, ed., Magazines for Libraries, 16th ed. New Providence, NJ.: ProQuest LLC, pp. 376-382. Minor revisions for 16th edition.

Clark, G. E. 2007. "Television, Video, and Radio." In C. LaGuardia, ed., Magazines for Libraries, 16th ed. New Providence, NJ.: ProQuest LLC, pp. 920-924.

Clark, G. E. 2006. Review of W. R. Hofstra, The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley, 2004, Johns Hopkins University Press. In Journal of Cultural Geography 23(2), 134-136. (Harvard link.)

Clark, G. E. 2005. "Environment and Conservation." In C. LaGuardia, ed., Magazines for Libraries, 14th ed. New Providence, NJ.: Bowker, 417-422. Chapter completely revised for 14th edition.

Clark, G. E. 2003. "Environment and Conservation." In C. LaGuardia, ed., Magazines for Libraries, 12th ed. New Providence, NJ.: Bowker, 422-429.

Clark, G. E. 2002. Review of International Bibliography of Maps and Atlases, 2nd ed. K.G. Saur. In Library Journal 127 (7), "Database & Disc Reviews," 134-135. (Harvard link.)

Clark, G. E. 2001. Vulnerability to Coastal Flood Hazards in Revere, Massachusetts: A Social Component of Risk. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Worcester, MA.: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. See HOLLIS Catalog or Proquest Dissertations & Theses Full Text (Harvard link.)

Steinberg, P. E., and G. E. Clark. 1999. "Troubled Water? Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management." Political Geography 18(4), 477-508.

Clark, G. E., S. C. Moser, S. J. Ratick, K. Dow, W. B. Meyer, S. Emani, W. Jin, J. X. Kasperson, R. E. Kasperson, and H. E. Schwarz. 1998. "Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 3(1), 59-82. (Harvard link.)