See what the BES LTER Education team has been up to in a new video – ‘Building and Sustaining a PLC in a Virtual World’. Learn how the BES LTER Education team pivoted during the pandemic to an all-virtual format, successfully creating a professional learning community (PLC) and implementing their professional development program with Baltimore […]
Check out one of BES LTER’s founding researchers, Dr. Morgan Grove, discussing urban ecology, segregation, environmental justice, and the efforts of the US Forest Service’s Baltimore Field Station on the 100th episode of the BioScience Talks podcast. Find out why Dr. Grove finds the expression “white flight” offensive, how Baltimore and other US cities have […]
Learn about the work of BES LTER alum Dr. Ela-Sita Carpenter. Dr Carpenter an Urban Wildlife Biologist at US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), presented a Cary Institute scientific seminar on her dissertation research. Dr. Carpenter sought to learn whether environmental and socioeconomic variables could help identify the presence, type, and activity levels of bat […]
Congratulations to Dr. Steward Pickett, the BES LTER founding Director and recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s 2021 Eminent Ecologist Award, conferred in recognition of his pioneering work on forest succession, urban ecology, and efforts to improve urban stewardship and sustainability. Read more…
A meditation on race and ecology on the occasion of the death of U.S. Representative John Lewis by BES Director Emeritus, Steward T.A. Pickett Representative John R. Lewis (1940-2020) was a hero of the civil rights movement in the United States. He was one of the six leaders of the famous 1963 March On Washington, a […]
“We’ve got all this incredible science that’s been going on for 20 years of the BES,” Welty says. With the Critical Zone grant, “Now we want to look at the subsurface to complement all the data and information and instrumentation—you name it, we have it,” Welty says. “We think it’s really important to marry these […]
See below for a slide show of the July Quarterly meeting presentations. Beneath that you will find a link for the one pre-recorded presentation. For presenter contact information, please email besinfo@caryinstitute.org with your inquiry.
The Baltimore Data Jam Competition – Accessible science This year saw the 7th Annual Baltimore Data Jam Competition. Each year I look forward to seeing the variety of student projects that both describe a local socio or ecological data set and communicate that data in a creative way. We’ve seen submissions from original songs and […]
On June 2, the LTER Executive Board shared the following message with all members of the LTER community: Dear LTER Community, As millions of people raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd, we are filled with grief and anger and reminded how far we still are from the fair and just […]
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