BES BULLETIN - Baltimore Ecosystem Study

winter. Along with her experience as a lab technician and research assistant at the University of Arizona, Alysiahas been a biologist with the planning division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for five years.David Bowes-Lyons has been hired as the Social Ecology Research Assistant. David is a recent graduate fromthe Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has worked with Bill Burch extensively. His primaryresponsibilities will be the day-to-day operations of research related to the Demographic and SocioeconomicWorking Group. David will start work in the beginning of September.Zandra Huston is working as a Research Assistant to Shawn Dalton this summer. Zandra, a Masters student inPolicy Studies at Johns Hopkins University, will be focusing her efforts on organizational analysis and fieldmapping of the neighborhoods associated with our Neighborhood Initiatives.Shawn is also interviewing candidates for a "Research Experience for Undergraduates" (REU) position. Thestudent will work with Shawn and Zandra in the field as well as on their own research. The goal is to have thisperson hired by June 17, 1998.Aralola (Lola) Akinmade will be working for one year on a number of overlapping projects that all center on theorganization and analysis of census data: urban/rural index; cluster analysis; social area index; sustainabilityindicators; historic census data; spatial analysis. A recent UMBC graduate with a Bachelor's degree inGeography, Lola has worked with cluster analysis for the Rouse CorporationWork has begun on the Neighborhood Initiatives with Parks & People Foundation’s Community Forestry Program.Personnel include Patricia Pyle, Brian (Spoon) Smith, and Amanda Cunningham. In addition, the CommunityForestry program has hired Meg Taylor to work specifically on micro-enterprise activities, and Steven Johnson,a sophomore at Morgan State University, to work with Spoon primarily in East Baltimore.Also, Katherine Cooper, an Urban Resources Initiative (URI) intern, will be working with Guy Hager of the Parks& People Foundation to identify and describe how other cities have addressed the issue of abandoned housesand lots and community open space management (including businesses). Catherine is a second-year Mastersstudent at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.ESA COMES TO BALTIMOREThe Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) are holdingtheir annual meetings in Baltimore, Maryland, August 2 through 6, 1998. Some of the BES activities include:August 1, SaturdayField Trip 10Field Trip 6Field Trip 5BES field trip (Morgan Grove and Wayne Zipperer)Vegetation Assemblages of Maryland (Grace Brush)Undergraduate Ecological Education (Alan Berkowitz)August 2, SundayWorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop"The New Urban Focus;”an LTER workshop organized by LTER Network, ESA, and ESA AppliedEcology Section (Rich Pouyat, Gary Fisher, and BES partner Peter Conrad, City of Baltimore)“Plant Activities for Pre-College Classrooms” (Gordon Uno and Marshall Sundberg, BotanicalSociety of America; morning only)BioQuest Workshop: “Mathematical Biology Tools for Biology Problem Solving Curricula” (JohnJungck and Marion Field Fass; morning only)“Teaching College Biology: Roles for Professional Societies” (Louise Liao, Coalition for Educationin the Life Sciences, Alan Berkowitz, ESA, Gordon Uno, AIBS; afternoon only)2