Matthew Clark Profile

Ph.D. candidate
Human-Environment Systems
Department of Biological Sciences
Resident researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology

Advisor: Dr. Vicken Hillis
Email: Matthewclark989@boisestate.edu

Links to personal webpage(s)

• Matthew Clark on GitHub
• Boise State Human-Environment Systems
• Hillis Lab: Google Trends Forecasting

• Agent-based modeling
• Coastal resource management
• Mixed-effects modeling
• Social-ecological systems

I’m interested in the social and environmental conditions that drive individuals to engage in community-based conservation efforts. I use theories and methods from the fields of cultural evolution, land system science, and general study of complex systems. My current research projects are primarily located in Pemba, Tanzania. My collaborators and I are quantifying past conservation interventions’ effects on communities, the environment, and the future of conservation on the island.

• World Wildlife Fund
• Community Forests Pemba
• Zanzibar Department of Forests