BES Annual Meeting, Open House, Art Exhibit & Reception -- October 20-21 -- Agenda
Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting
Cylburn
Arboretum, Vollmer Center, Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
8:30 – am Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 am Meeting
Logistics: Morgan Grove
9:00
– 9:30 am Keynote Speaker: Ann Bartuska, Deputy Undersecretary
of the Department of Agriculture
9:30 – 10:30 am Welcome and Introduction
Presentation
of Director’s Awards
Steward
T.A. Pickett, Project Director
Emma J.
Rosi-Marshall, Director Designate
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:45 Session
1 (4)
10:45 – 11:00 Above- and belowground linkages: Plant
diversity and soil fauna on vacant lots. Katalin Szlavecz
11:00 – 11:15 Still Here: Photos and Testimony by
Residents of West and Southwest Baltimore. Dawn Biehler
11:15 – 11:30 Assessing stream rehabilitation effects on
metabolism and nitrogen dynamics of urban streams. AJ Reisinger
11:30 – 11:45 Examining the
spatial dispersion of demolitions and renovations.
Nicholas Irwin
11:45 – 12:15 Poster “Lightening Round”
12:15 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 Poster
Session
3:00 – 5:00 Session 2 (7)
3:00 – 3:15 Socioecological mechanisms of Ae. albopictus
densities and associated health risks in Baltimore, MD. Eliza Little
3:15 – 3:30 Occurrence of estrogenic hormones and UV
filters in an urban watershed in Baltimore, Maryland. Ke He
3:30 – 3:45 Spatial Patterns of Urban Tree Canopy and
Urban Heat Island along an Urban-Rural Gradient. Austin Troy, Mehdi Heris,
and Bob Taylor
3:45 – 4:00 Effects of urban chemical stressors on
stream biofilms. Sylvia Lee
4:00 – 4:15 Green Infrastructure Designer: A New
Framework for Crowd-Sourced Green Infrastructure Design. Brian Miles
4:15 –
4:30 Household
Response to Environmental Incentives for Rain Garden Adoption. David Newburn
4:30
– 4:45 Legacies of Lead in Charm City’s Soil: Lessons
from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. Kirsten Schwarz
5:30 – 7:30 BES Open House at Parks & People
Foundation
This
year the BES Open House will be focusing on our relationship with City, County
and State agencies, NGOs, media and community members. It will be an
opportunity for us to showcase our research through posters, photos and
in-person discussion between BES researchers and our invitees. Location: Parks & People, 2100 Liberty Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD
21217.
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Session 5 (5)
9:00 – 9:15 Salinization
alters fluxes of bioreactive elements from stream ecosystems across land use. Shuiwang Duan
9:15 – 9:30 Data wonks needed: Long term analysis and data integration using the
BES Telephone Survey. Morgan Grove and Dexter Locke
9:30 –
9:45 Urban
Mosquitoes: Citizen Science Program Outcomes for the Community. Amanda Sorensen
9:45 – 10:00 Investigating
Urban Landscapes: Practice & Performance. Isaac Hametz
10:00 –
10:15 Learning
communities of teachers and scientists to support educating students about
urban ecosystems.
Alan Berkowitz
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:15 Session 6 (6)
10:30 –
10:45 It's
a gas: Long-term studies of soil: atmosphere fluxes of greenhouse gases in
Baltimore. Peter
Groffman
10:45 – 11:00 Tree Canopy Change and Neighborhood
Stability: A Comparative Analysis of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD. Wen-Ching Chuang
11:00 –
11:15 Closing
Watershed Nitrogen Budgets: Integrating Long-Term Data, Sensors, and Models. John Duncan
11:15 –
11:30 Baltimore
Earth Stewardship Initiative Demonstration Project. Alex Felson
11:30 – 11:45 Integrating
geospatial and cognitive modeling tools to improve collaborative citizen
science and decision making.
Rebecca Jordan
11:45 – 12:00 The role of plant functional and
phylogenetic diversity on community assembly and ecosystem services in urban
vacant land.
Christopher
M. Swan and Anna L. Johnson
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