Clarke named to Mass. post

Christine Clarke

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has selected Christine S. Clarke to serve as state conservationist for Massachusetts.

Clarke currently serves as leader of the agency's national Geographic Information System Laboratory and as NRCS geodata co-ordinator.

A Rhode Island native, Clarke began her career with the agency in the Newport field office and then as a soil scientist with the U.S. Peace Corps and U.S. Agency for International Development in Jamaica.

Clarke has served as acting director of the National Geospatial Development Center in Morgantown, W.V., standards lead for Geospatial One-Stop, NRCS representative to the federal Geographic Data Committee, National Soil Digitizing co-ordinator and GIS specialist, Morgantown, W.V.

Clarke holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island in resource development and soil science and a graduate certificate from the University of Connecticut in GIS. She is a certified soil scientist.

Christine is the daughter of Bill and Marian Clarke of Howland Avenue.