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Clark’s lab uses using long-term experiments and monitoring studies to understand disturbance and climate controls on ecosystem dynamics.
Clark is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, which also recognized him with the William Skinner Cooper Award, for his research on barrier beach dynamics, and the George Mercer Award, for studies of climate change and fire. He is an ESA Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. For excellence in teaching and research, he was one of 15 scientists recognized with the National Science Foundation’s five-yr Presidential Faculty Fellow Award. He is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Prize and a Lauréat of Emmanuel Macron’s Make Our Planet Great Again. Clark is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Clark currently leads the international effort
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Jim Clark wins the Indy 500
In celebration of Jim Clark’s historic win at the 49th Indianapolis 500, there is perhaps no better person to recount the occasion than Jim han själv . This is what he wrote shortly after the race in the (rare) updated version of his autobiography, Jim Clark at the Wheel:
“Practice at Indianapolis often serves as a guide to ultimate performances, but it goes deeper than this because even such things as the time of day can influence your practice times. Also, you are not restricted to a particular grade of fuel, as you are in European racing, so it is quite easy to brew up some juice to give you a great deal more power. We tried a nitro mix in our bränsle in practice and got ourselves an extra 50bhp but in the race we chose to run on alcohol and play safe. AJ Foyt, my greatest rival, ran nitro in the race.
“I found myself in the middle of the front row with AJ on the pole. Unlike 1963, however, this race • A Google user Jim Clark has been making films as a picture editor since the mid '50s. His memoirs cover almost six decades of his amazingly successful and eventful career: the very beginnings as an eager junior assistant editor at the legendary Ealing Studios, his early collaborations with Stanley Donen (Charade, made in 1963, was their third and most successful collaboration), a long career in Hollywood that includes several seminal films of the '70s and '80s (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, The Day of the Locust, The Mission, The Killing Fields) and a brief stint as a senior VP at Columbia Pictures (Jim's stories here are particularly revealing; a kind of 'behind-the-scenes' of 'behind-the-scenes'). But I have to give a special nod to The Innocents (1961), one of the best Henry James film adaptations and the most sophisticated 'ghost film' (or psychological horror film, if you wish) ever made
Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing