David L. Clark

About

David L. Clark is a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellow and Guest Scientist with the Laboratory’s Glenn T. Seaborg Institute for Actinide Science. He served as LANL’s Director of the National Security Education Center from 2013 to 2025. His research interests include the molecular and electronic structure of actinide materials, applications of synchrotron radiation to nuclear security, behavior of actinide and fission products in the environment, aging effects in nuclear weapons materials, and the education of judges on the methods of science. Clark is an international authority on the chemistry and physics of the actinides, with nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications, encyclopedia, and book chapters. He is the co-Editor of the six-volume Plutonium Handbook, portions of which were written while a CISAC Visiting Scholar in 2015. He served as the inaugural Director of the Los Alamos Glenn T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science from 1997 to 2009 and has contributed as a technical advisor to the Department of Energy on various environmental stewardship projects, including the Rocky Flats cleanup, Savannah River Site waste tank closures, and the DOE High Level Waste Corporate Board. Clark is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Los Alamos Laboratory Fellow. His awards include the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award in 1988, the Glenn Seaborg Award in Nuclear Chemistry in 2017, and several Defense Programs Awards of…

Research topics

• Computer science
• Physics
• Algorithm
• Artificial intelligence
• Astrophysics

Selected publications

• Rural parents’ views on their involvement in their children’s mathematics education

  Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education · 2020-12-23 · 2 citations

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• Using Machine Learning Methods to Predict the Movement Trajectories of the Louisiana Black Bear

  SMU Scholar (Southern Methodist University) · 2021-01-01 · 1 citations

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  In 1992, the Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) was placed on the U.S. Endangered Species List. This was due to bear populations in Louisiana being small and isolated enough where their populations couldn’t intersect with other populations to grow. Interchange of individuals between subpopulations of bears in Louisiana is critical to maintain genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding effects. Utilizing GPS (Global Positioning System) data gathered from 31 radio-collared bears from 201…

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Frequent coauthors

• I. W. Harry

  University of Portsmouth

  234 shared

• J. D. E. Creighton

  229 shared

• B. Barr

  University of Glasgow

  218 shared

• J. van den Brand

  204 shared

• R. L. Ward

  University of Glasgow

  184 shared

• E. Chassande–Mottin

  Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie

  177 shared

• B. Willke

  Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  171 shared

• B. F. Schutz

  Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  170 shared

Awards & honors

• Nobel Laureate Signature Award (1988)
• Glenn Seaborg Award in Nuclear Chemistry (2017)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…
• Los Alamos Laboratory Fellow
• Defense Programs Awards of Excellence

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