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