Dr. Clark's expertise and experience span the topics of climate vulnerability, climate change adaptation, sustainable development, community resilience, and sustainability education. Clark’s current research focuses primarily on quantifying the social burden of power outages on households and communities due to natural disasters and extreme events as well as planning for extreme temperature events in New York State.

•    PhD, Sustainability, Arizona State University, 2013
•    MS, Earth System Science, University of New Hampshire, 2008
•    BS, Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, 2006
 

• Clark, S. S., Peterson, S. K., Shelly, M. A., & Jeffers, R. F. (2023). Developing an equity-focused metric for quantifying the social burden of infrastructure disruptions. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 8(sup1), 356-369.
• Clark, S. S., Peterson, S. K., Rivera-Gutiérrez, R., Zambrana-Rosario, A.C., Shelly, M.A. (2022). Impact of Infrastructure Disruptions on Puerto Rican Household Capabilities, Health, and Well-being. Natural Hazards Center. Available: https://hazards.colorado.edu/public-health-disaster-research/impact-of-infrastructure-disruptions-on-puerto-rican-household-capabilities-health-and-well-being
• Clark, S. S., Chester, M. V., Seager, T. P., & Eisenberg, D. A. (2019). The vulnerability of interdependent urban infrastructure systems to climate change: could Phoenix experience a Katrina of extreme heat? Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 4(1), 21-35.
• Clark, S.S., Seager, T.P. & Chester, M.V. (2018). A capabilities approach to the prioritization of critical infrastructure. Environment Systems & Decisions, 38: 339-352
• Marchese, D., Reynolds, E., Bates, M. E., Morgan, H., Clark, S. S., & Linkov, I. (2018). Resilience and sustainability: Similarities and differences in environmental management applications. Science of the total environment, 613, 1275-1283.