BES Quarterly Meeting 13 June 2013

Save the Date Thursday, 13 June  —  Baltimore Ecosystem Study Quarterly Project Meeting, 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, CUERE offices, TRC Room 206.

Meeting Goals:

·         To practice, refine, and link the talks to be delivered at the Mid-Term Review. 

·         To decide on the posters to be linked to the talks, and identify authors of the posters. 

·         To articulate and refine the strategy and tactics for interacting with the external review team.

Agenda Outline:

8:30 Breakfast/Schmooze

Each talk will be allotted the 20 minutes it will have in the review session.  Fifteen minutes will be devoted after each talk to a discussion of 1) improvements; 2) connections with posters; and 3) connections with other talks.  Only the first author is listed here, although the talks are expected to draw upon interactive teams.

·         Overview of Resilience and Adaptive Processes: Scientific Understanding of Sustainability. Pickett

·         Long-Term Data: Relationship to Resilience and Adaptation.  Rosi-Marshall

·         The Urban Stream Dis/Continuum Concept and Urban Resilience and Adaptation.  Kaushal

·         Locational Choice by Households and Firms: Contributions to Resilience and Adaptation.  Irwin

·         The Urban Metacommunity Concept and Urban Resilience and Adaptation.  Swan

·         Contributions of Integrative Modeling to Understanding and Using Resilience and Adaptation.  Band

·         Education Research and Practice: Understanding and Using Resilience and Adaptation.  Berkowitz

Discussion: 

·         Points for the summary paper to be prepared subsequently;

·         Strategic overview of process and interaction with review team;

·         Clarification of overall framework and synthesis;

·         Finalization of posters and lead authors for posters.

·         Discuss field trip itinerary

5:00 Adjourn

All members of the BES community, as well as other interested parties, are encouraged to attend and participate.