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What I Know Now: The Need for “Good Trouble” to Build an Anti-Racist Science of Ecology
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…
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Birding while Black in Baltimore
Today our guest blogger is longtime BES LTER Investigator and birder Dr. Charles Nilon. He has written the following post in honor of #BlackBirdersWeek.
Paige Warren and I started the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Bird Monitoring Project…
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Birding While Black in Baltimore – part 2
Today our guest blogger is Dr. Ela-Sita Carpenter. She is a Baltimore Ecosystem Study graduate student alumni and #BlackBirdersWeek participant.
I feel immensely lucky to be a birder, life-long resident, and urban ecologist in Baltimore.…
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BES LTER update
The BES LTER is currently in a synthesis stage, analyzing our long-term data in new and creative ways. Project Director, Emma J. Rosi, explains exactly what that means in this 5-minute talk originally presented at the 2020 LTER Science Council…
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The Ecological Nugget at the Heart of Urban Theory
Steward T.A. Pickett and Emma J. Rosi
Several researchers from the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) have a manuscript entitled "Theoretical
Perspectives of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution in a
Social-Ecological Research…
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Breaking the Baltimore Runoff Machine
Steward T.A. Pickett
When one traverses the old rowhouse neighborhoods of Baltimore, the immediate impression is a collection of buildings in intimate connection. In the 19th century neighborhoods, which served a city of pedestrians or…