BES BULLETIN - Baltimore Ecosystem Study

PostersOral Papers“Ecological Education” and “Undergraduate Papers” (morning only)“Ecological Education” (afternoon only)August 7, FridayField Trip 26Urban Stream Ecosystems (BES collaborator Susan Gresson, Ken Belt)MEETINGS2-3 June 1998 – 11 th Annual Geographic Information Systems Conference; The University Union & TheBurkshire Conference Center, Towson University, Towson, Maryland. This conference was organized byTowson’s Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, GIS Laboratory, and Office of Corporate,Executive and Extended Education. Co-sponsorship was provided by the Association of American Geographers’Middle Atlantic Division.24 June 1998 – USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Meeting; UMBC Technology Research CenterBuilding, Baltimore, Maryland. Since the 1950’s, the FIA has conducted state-by-state surveys of forest standswhile traditionally avoiding urban areas. Their interest in the BES project’s vegetation assessment in an urbanlandscape prompted this meeting and a site visit to Leakin Park to see oak-tulip permanent plots. The FIA group,which numbered about 15, also heard presentations by Ken Belt (general overview of the LTER program and theBaltimore Ecosystem Study), Wayne Zipperer (vegetation analysis), and Mary Cadenasso (permanent plotestablishment and vegetation sampling). Emerging from the meeting is the potential to work together next yearwhen FIA begins its State of Maryland’s survey.WORTHWHILE READINGTitle:Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass PrairieAuthor: First in LTER Network Series, LTER Publications Committee; edited by Alan K. Knapp, John M.Briggs, David C. Hartnett, and Scott L. CollinsPublisher: Oxford University Press; New YorkYear: 1998Title:An Ecological Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape AtlasAuthor: K. Bruce Jones, Kurt H. Riitters, James D. Wickham, Roger D. Tankersley Jr., Robert V. O’Neill,Deborah J. Chaloud, Elizabeth R. Smith, and Anne C. NealePublisher: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development;Washington, DC (EPA/600/R-97/130)Year: 19974