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Joseph D. Clark
Adjunct Associate Professor

    Dr. Joseph D. Clark is Branch Chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Southern Appalachian Research Branch (SARB), located at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Clark holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries. SARB conducts hypothesis-driven environmental research focusing on Department of Interior issues in the southern Appalachians and elsewhere. Dr. Clark is a wildlife biologist and specializes in carnivore ecology, population dynamics, and habitat modeling. Dr. Clark served for 9 years as a Research Biologist (bear and furbearers) and then as Assistant Chief with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. As such, Dr. Clark has a unique perspective of wildlife resource management from both the practical as well as academic side. Dr. Clark has studied population dynamics of black bears in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia, in the Mobile Basin of Alabama, and at Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana; has evaluated the effects of public use (i.e., deer hunting) on Florida panthers ecology and management in south Florida; has developed methods for black bear reintroduction in Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Arkansas; has performed a demographic analysis of a reintroduced elk herd at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina; and has studied muskrat and river otter ecology at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. Dr. Clark has authored >80 scientific articles.

A current list of authored scientific articles and additional information on current or ongoing research is available at Dr. Clark’s USGS webpage. [Click Here to View the Page]


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Joseph D. Clark
Research Ecologist
U.S. Geological Survey,
Eastern Region, Northeast area, Biology Disciplines.

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Adjunct Associate Professor
Appalachian Field Lab
274 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg
Univ. of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37901-1071
865-974-0739 ext. 4790
865-974-3555 - Fax
Email: jclark1@utk.edu