BES & URI Field Safety & Community Awareness -- June 7, 2013

Baltimore Ecosystem Study and Urban Resources Initiative Interns

Field Safety and Community Awareness Seminar

Friday, June 7, 2013, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Seminar starts at - Technology Research Center, RM 206

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
5200 Westland Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21227

and continues at Parks & People Foundation  

800 Wyman Park Drive, Suite 010, Baltimore, MD 21211

8:30 - Light Refreshments

9:00 – 9:30 - Welcome and Participant Introductions

-                                                                    Guy Hager and Ed Orser - Parks & People Foundation

-                                                                    Claire Welty - Baltimore Ecosystem Study and Director, Center   for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE)

9:30 - 10:15 - TRC Protocols - Claire Welty

10:15 – 10:30 BREAK

10:30-11:30 - Emergency Response, Field Health and Safety

-                                                                     Ian Yesilonis, US Forest Service Scientist

11:30- 12:15 - Travel to Baltimore City

12:15 – 1:00 – LUNCH (provided) at Parks & People Foundation conference room

1:00 – 1:20 - Welcome to Baltimore City

-                                                                   Jackie Carrera, President & CEO

-                                                                  William Vondrasek, Park Director, Baltimore City Dept. Recreation and Parks

1:20-2:15 - Overview of Baltimore City and Working in the City

-                                                           Guy Hager – Parks & People Foundation

-                                                          Community Engagement and Baltimore City Sustainability Initiatives  - Abby Cocke, Office of Sustainability 

2:15-2:30 BREAK (load up in vans)

2:30- 4:45 Baltimore Neighborhood Tour  

-         Engaging Communities in Green Infrastructure Projects – Christina Bradley,  Parks & People Foundation

-          Franklin Square Community - Scott Kashnow, resident leader

4:45- 5:00 – Adjure with light refreshments (place to be determined)

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.