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101
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48035
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4091

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Christopher M. Clark is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research interests span key subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work addresses numerous topics, with a particular focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Fire effects on ecosystems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Forest Management and Policy, Forest ecology and management, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues demonstrate the breadth of their research dissemination and include Environmental Research Letters, Global Change Biology, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, and Environmental Research Communications.

Collaborations have been established with several co-authors, notably Robert D. Sabo, Jennifer Phelan, Kemen Austin, Kevin J. Horn, and R. Quinn Thomas, indicating a network of active research partnerships.

Among recent papers, notable works include:

  • "The impact of air pollution on terrestrial managed and natural vegetation," 2020, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Phosphorus Inventory for the Conterminous United States (2002-2012)," 2021, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Grassland-to-cropland conversion increased soil, nutrient, and carbon losses in the US Midwest between 2008 and 2016," 2021, published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "A review of domestic land use change attributable to U.S. biofuel policy," 2022, published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Considerations when using nutrient inventories to prioritize water quality improvement efforts across the US," 2021, published in Environmental Research Communications

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Christopher M. Clark received the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award from the American Educational Research Association in 1980.

Best Publications

  • Ubiquitinated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Manuela Neumann;Deepak M. Sampathu;Linda K. Kwong;Adam C. Truax

  • The consortium to establish a registry for alzheimer’s disease (CERAD). Part I. Clinical and neuropsychological assessment of alzheimer’s disease

    J. C. Morris;A. Heyman;R. C. Mohs;J. P. Hughes

  • Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker signature in Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative subjects.

    Leslie M. Shaw;Hugo Vanderstichele;Malgorzata Knapik-Czajka;Christopher M. Clark

  • Use of Florbetapir-PET for Imaging β-Amyloid Pathology

    Christopher M. Clark;Julie A. Schneider;Barry J. Bedell;Thomas G. Beach

  • Cerebral PET with florbetapir compared with neuropathology at autopsy for detection of neuritic amyloid-β plaques: a prospective cohort study

    Christopher M Clark;Michael J Pontecorvo;Thomas G Beach;Barry J Bedell

  • Consensus report of the working group on: 'Molecular and biochemical markers of Alzheimer's disease'

    Peter Davies;Judith Resnick;Burton Resnick;Sid Gilman

  • Development of cognitive instruments for use in clinical trials of antidementia drugs: Additions to the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale that broaden its scope.

    Richard C. Mohs;David Knopman;Ronald C. Petersen;Steven H. Ferris

  • Increase of brain oxidative stress in mild cognitive impairment: a possible predictor of Alzheimer disease.

    Domenico Praticò;Christopher M. Clark;Feyan Liun;Virginia Y.-M. Lee

  • Alpha-synuclein cortical Lewy bodies correlate with dementia in Parkinson’s disease

    H.I. Hurtig;J.Q. Trojanowski;J. Galvin;D. Ewbank

  • FDG-PET improves accuracy in distinguishing frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    Norman L. Foster;Judith L. Heidebrink;Christopher M. Clark;William J. Jagust

  • Validity and reliability of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study–Clinical Global Impression of Change.

    Lon S. Schneider;Jason T. Olin;Rachelle S. Doody;Christopher M. Clark

  • High Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau and Low Amyloid β42 Levels in the Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Relation to Apolipoprotein E Genotype

    D. Galasko;L. Chang;R. Motter;C. M. Clark

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD): Part IV. Rates of cognitive change in the longitudinal assessment of probable Alzheimer's disease

    J. C. Morris;S. Edland;C. Clark;D. Galasko

  • Spatial patterns of brain atrophy in MCI patients, identified via high-dimensional pattern classification, predict subsequent cognitive decline.

    Yong Fan;Nematollah Batmanghelich;Chris M. Clark;Christos Davatzikos

  • Frontotemporal dementia: clinicopathological correlations.

    Mark S. Forman;Jennifer Farmer;Julene K. Johnson;Christopher M. Clark

  • Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD): the first twenty years.

    Gerda G. Fillenbaum;Gerda G. Fillenbaum;Gerald van Belle;John C. Morris;Richard C. Mohs

  • Concomitant TAR-DNA-binding protein 43 pathology is present in Alzheimer disease and corticobasal degeneration but not in other tauopathies.

    Kunihiro Uryu;Hanae Nakashima-Yasuda;Mark S. Forman;Linda K. Kwong

  • YKL-40: A Novel Prognostic Fluid Biomarker for Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    Rebecca Craig-Schapiro;Richard J. Perrin;Catherine M. Roe;Chengjie Xiong

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD).: Part XI. Clinical milestones in patients with Alzheimer's disease followed over 3 years

    D. Galasko;S.D. Edland;J. C. Morris;C. Clark

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part VI. Family history assessment: A multicenter study of first-degree relatives of Alzheimer's disease probands and nondemented spouse controls

    J. M. Silverman;K. Raiford;S. Edland;G. Fillenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania
Virginia M.-Y. Lee
Virginia M.-Y. Lee University of Pennsylvania
Steven E. Arnold
Steven E. Arnold Harvard University
Joseph F. Quinn
Joseph F. Quinn Oregon Health & Science University
Douglas Galasko
Douglas Galasko University of California, San Diego
Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Elaine R. Peskind
Elaine R. Peskind University of Washington
Mark A. Mintun
Mark A. Mintun University of Pennsylvania
John C. Morris
John C. Morris Washington University in St. Louis
Sharon X. Xie
Sharon X. Xie University of Pennsylvania

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