Clark was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied the uplift of southeastern Tibet.
[1] She worked alongside Leigh Royden on lower crustal flows and their role in building the eastern margins of Tibet.
She is particularly interested in the evolution of rivers as these provide information about the deformation-induced vertical movement of the Earth.
To study these processes, Clark makes use of topographic measurements such as field geology and geographic information system modelling.
[7] Making use of pre- and post-earthquake satellite imagery, she identified that the landslides were more concentrated in the North of the transition between the Lesser and Greater Himalayas.