Mysha Clarke

Mysha Clarke joined the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences in 2020. As a natural resource social scientist, her aim is to better understand people’s environmental decision-making, and to determine avenues through which to connect people with natural resource conservation and management. She uses a mixed method approach incorporating qualitative and quantitative methods to better understand the human dimensions of forest management.

Her collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects include invasive plant management on private non-industrial family forestlands, communication of invasive insects in the media, urban garden’s connectivity and urban forest change over time. Overall, she envisions her research contributing theories and knowledge to improve socio-ecological interactions, environmental decision-making and conservation by focusing primarily on the human dimensions of rural and urban forests and other natural resources.

Prior to joining the FFGS, Mysha was a Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University in the Department of Geography and the Environment. She grew up in Jamaica and received her PhD from Purdue University in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources.