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
