BES Annual Meeting Agenda

Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting

Agenda

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Cylburn Arboretum, Vollmer Center, Baltimore, MD

 8:00 –  8:25 am          Breakfast

 8:25 –  8:30                Meeting Logistics: Morgan Grove

 8:30 –  9:00                Welcome and Introduction

                                    Presentation of Director’s Award

                                    S.T.A. Pickett, Project Director

 9:00 –  9:30                Keynote Speaker-David Sloan Wilson

                                    Evolution as a general theoretical framework for urban ecosystem studies

                                   

 9:30 – 10:45               Session 1 (5)

 9:30  –  9:45               Land use and climate alter carbon dynamics in watersheds of Chesapeake Bay—S.S. Kaushal, S. Duan, M. Grese, M. Pennino, K.T. Belt, S.E.G. Findlay, P.M. Groffman, P. Mayer, S. Murthy, J. Blomquist

 9:45 – 10:00               Time is money: An empirical examination of the dynamic effects of uncertainty on residential subdivision development—D. Wrenn

10:00 – 10:15              Developing learning progressions for student understanding of water systems in Baltimore—B. Caplan, T. Newcomer

10:15 – 10:30              Biodiversity in urban stormwater ponds—K. Brundrett, C. Wahl, C. Swan

10:30 – 10:45              Urban community forestry in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: The role of nonprofit organizations—M. Rodier

10:45 – 11: 00             Break

11: 00 – 12:30             Session 2 (6)

11: 00 – 11:15             Identifying the effect of down-zoning in Baltimore County on residential subdivision development in Carroll and Harford Counties—E. Irwin, C. Towe, A. Klaiber, D. Wrenn

11: 15 – 11:30             Uncultivated: A physical and virtual tour of Baltimore's wild plant life—L. Cazabon, C. Partain

11: 30 – 11:45             Effects of stormwater management and stream engineering on nitrogen uptake and denitrification in streams—T. Newcomer, S.S. Kaushal, P.M. Mayer, P.M. Groffman, M.M. Grese

11: 45 – 12:00             Collective strategies for increasing Baltimore City’s tree canopy—E. Tyler

12:00 – 12:15              Recalculating the WUI to strengthen ecological vulnerability planning in the urban-rural transition zone—H. Howard

12:15 – 12:30              What's missing from Baltimore's urban fish communities and why?: A preliminary comparative analysis of fish assemblage data—S. Kemp

12:30  –  1:30              Lunch

  1:30  –  3:00              Poster Session

  3:00  –  4:00              Session 4 (6)

  3:00  –  3:15              Watershed flow dynamics of the Baltimore Region—A. Bhaskar, C. Welty, A. Seck, R. Maxwell, C. Jantz, S. Drzyzga, R. Sanderson, A. Miller, G. Lindner, J. Cole

  3:15  –  3:30              Climate change in Maryland: A strategy for resilience—M. Griswold, Z. Johnson

  3:30  –  3:45              Ecological complexity and disease vectors:  Phenology and composition of urban mosquito communities in Baltimore—S. LaDeau

  3:45  –  4:00              Baltimore Sustainability Program utilizing Baltimore Ecosystem Study as a tool and resource—B. Strommen

  4:00 –  6:00               Time to set up for COH

  6:00                           Community Open House and Greening Celebration

Thursday, 20 October 2011

  8:00 –   8:30               Breakfast

 8:30 – 10:15               Session 5 (7)

 8:30 –   8:45               From professional development to effective teaching of environmental science—A. R. Berkowitz, B. Caplan, A. Alvarado, S. Haines

   8:45  –  9:15             The Role of Parks & People Foundation’s Informal Environmental Education in MSDE’s Environmental Literacy Implementation Plan—D. Shelley, M. Hardcastle

   9:15 –  9:30              A tale of two systems: comparative results for vegetation functional diversity for "Clean & Green" and unmanaged vacant lots—Y.  Williams

   9:30 – 10:00             Denitrification enzyme activity in stormwater control structures—N.  Bettez, P. Groffman

  10:00 – 10:15            Pilot testing of distributed temperature sensing in Dead Run—C.  Welty, J. Miller, J. Duncan

 10:15 – 10:30             Pharmaceutical compounds in BES streams: concentrations and ecological effects—E. J. Rosi-Marshall, D. Kincaid, H. Bechtold, T. V. Royer

10:30 – 10:45              Effects of urbanization on dissolved organic matter composition in Maine, USA—T. Parr, C. Cronan, T. Ohno, K. Simon

10:45 – 11:00              Break

11:00 – 12:45              Session 6 (7)

11:00 – 11:15              Estimation of soil CO₂ effluxes from suburban forest and lawn using continuous measurements of CO₂ profiles in soils—J. Chun, K. Szlavecz, D. Ferrer, M. Bernard, S. Pitz, J. Hom, B. Zaitchik

11:15 – 11:30              Spatial and temporal controls of nitrogen cycling and export—J. Duncan, P. Groffman, L. Band

11:30 – 11:45              Spectral analysis of long-term and high-frequency chloride and nitrate stream chemistry data in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER watersheds—J. Verhoef, C. Welty, S. Kaushal, A. Miller        

11:45 – 12:00              Ultra-urban baseflow and stormflow concentrations and fluxes in a watershed undergoing watershed restoration (WS263)—K.T. Belt,  W.P. Stack, R. Pouyat, K. Burgess, P. Groffman, S. Kaushal

12:00 – 12:15              Integrated hydrologic modeling: discretization, initialization and hydrogeologic data input—A. Seck, C. Welty, J. Cole, R. Maxwell

12:15 – 12:30              Sources and transformations of carbon and nitrogen in the Potomac River Estuary—M. Pennino, S. Kaushal, S. Murthy          

12:30 – 12:45              Land-use effect on stream organic matter composition in two metropolitan areas in USA—S. Duan, S. Kaushal, R. Amon, R. Brinkmeyer