Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Cylburn
Arboretum, Vollmer Center, Baltimore, MD
8:30 – am Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 am Meeting
Logistics: Morgan Grove
9:00
– 9:30 am Keynote Speaker: Dr. Freeman Hrabowski
President, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Holding
Fast to Dreams: Creating a Culture of Inclusive Excellence
9:45 – 10:30 am Welcome and Introduction
Presentation
of Director’s Awards
Steward
T.A. Pickett
Emma J.
Rosi-Marshall, Project Director
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:30 Session
1 (3)
10:45 – 11:00 Gathering Baltimore’s Bounty:
Characterizations of Urban Foraging Behaviors, Motivations, and Barriers. Brent Kim
11:00 – 11:15 Agricultural Cost Sharing and Implications
for Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. David Newburn
11:15 – 11:30 Baltimore Floods: Introducing the Comp
Hydro Project Blending Hydrology, Data and Computation for High School Students
and Teachers. Alan R. Berkowitz
11:30 – 12:00 Poster “Lightening Round”
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 3:30 Poster
Session
3:30 – 4:30 Session 2 (4)
3:30 – 3:45 The Greening of Baltimore’s Asphalt
School Yards, Geoffrey Buckley
3:45 – 4:00 Equitable Urban Revitalization and Access
to Amenities. Nicholas B. Irwin
4:00 – 4:15 Regional urbanization and the effects
on the ecosystem net primary production: A comparative study on the United
States and China. Wenjuan Yu
4:15 –
4:30 Different
dimensions of urban biodiversity confer shifts in ecosystems services. Christopher Swan
6:00 – 8:00
BES Open House at Parks & People
Foundation
2100
Liberty Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD.
Thursday, 20 October 2016
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Session 5 (5)
9:00 – 9:15 Simulating
impacts of urban development on water budgets in headwater catchments in the
Gwynns Falls watershed using ParFlow.CLM. Michael Barnes
9:15
– 9:30 Documenting and characterizing landscape heterogeneity in
Baltimore.
Matthew Baker
9:30 –
9:45 Managing the new
landscape of arboviral risk in temperate cities.
Shannon LaDeau
9:45 – 10:00 A Social-Ecological Framework for the Study and
Application of Governance Network Approaches. Morgan Grove
10:00 –
10:15 Reading the Landscape: A Social Assessment of
Urban Parks and Natural Areas. Nancy Sonti
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:45 Session 6 (5)
10:30 –
10:45 The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology goes on
the road: landscape structure and vegetation in front and back yards. Dexter Locke
10:45 – 11:00 Long-term trends in nitrate leaching
from urban forests and grasslands.
Peter
Groffman
11:00 –
11:15 Biogeochemical Symptoms of the Urban
Stream Syndrome: Evidence from multiple scales of investigation. Emma J.
Rosi-Marshall
11:15 –
11:30 Spatial spillovers and housing
reinvestment in Baltimore. Elena Irwin
11:30 –
11:45 Assessing equality of access to parks
and recreation using the local context. Coline Dony
The agenda of meeting is good and it is necessary to hold such meetings in order to create awareness among people and to stimulate new research for betterment of ecosystem.
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