Jahiya P.R.M. Clark investigates how people and the environment intersect — through climate, technology, and the long memory of land.

Jahiya Clark is a conservation and forest ecologist pursuing a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz, where she works in the Conservation Science and Stewardship Lab under Dr. Erika Zavaleta as a Doris Duke Fellow.

Her research spans climate adaptation science, land management and usage, natural history and collections, and remote sensing and GIS. Her master's research analyzed how adaptive forest management and climate change shape forest mammal occupancy across northern New England.

She is currently analyzing the ecological effects of Indigenous land tenure and governance on rangeland-to-cropland conversion in northern Tanzania.

Jahiya is based in Santa Cruz, California.