BES Quarterly Research Meeting: Green Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure

 

Quarterly Research Meeting

Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Technology Research Center Room 206

5200 Westland Blvd

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

(Directions at:  http://beslter.org/frame2-page_10.html)

Preliminary Agenda

9:30:      Gather and Schmooze

9:50       Overview of Meeting. Morgan Grove

10:00:    Burgess: A View from the City

• How will Green Infrastructure help Baltimore meet its needs?
• What are the types of Green Infrastructure the City is contemplating?
• What are the City’s concerns and issues associated with Green Infrastructure?
• What are the City’s monitoring and research needs?

10:30:    Shedlock: Hydrologic Monitoring

• What are the existing hydrologic monitoring activities?
• How do we assess whether existing activities are sufficient?
• What might be needed, what could be deactivated?

11:00:    Grove: Social and Economic Monitoring

• What are the existing social and economic monitoring activities?
• How do we assess whether the existing activities are sufficient?
• What might be needed, what could be deactivated?
• What have we learned from current activities?

11:30:     Groffman / Kaushal: Learning from Past and Present Monitoring and Research

• Examples of existing Green Infrastructure monitoring and research?
• What have we learned?
• How can we improve our Green Infrastructure monitoring and research?

12:00:    Lunch

1:30:      Discussion Part 1

·        What are related existing or planned BES or BES-related projects?

2:00:      Discussion Part 2

·        How can BES collaborate with city agencies and NGOs with existing resources?

·        How can BES develop new resources for collaboration?

3:00       Adjourn