BES II Project Outcomes
What's This All About?Second story bays, Charles Village neighborhood, Baltimore. BES LTER Photo.BES, as a Long-Term Ecological Research project, is funded in six year increments. BES II actually lasted for seven years due to a change…
What is a Metacity?
Metacity: Beyond Mere Size Hong Kong. Copyright Brian McGrath.The term “metacity” was introduced by the United Nations as a way to capture the increasing size of the largest urban aggregations on the planet. Previously, the term “megacity”…
Why Does BES Have Rules for Running Meetings?
There are two answers to this question. First, a wise man, Prof. M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, suggested at our first meeting that we needed some rules to guide how such meetings were conducted. Reds, who died last year, was a famous…
A Presentation on BES III: Research, Education, and Engagement from the Sanitary to the Sustainable City
By now, friends and members of BES are familiar with the new research strategy we have developed to guide our third grant cycle. A new six year grant is an opportunity to keep up important long-term measurements and experiments, but is…
Where is the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES)?
BES as Place Why in Baltimore of course? But that’s not a complete answer. Our research, education, and community engagement are of course focused on the five-county conurbation that is centered on the city of Baltimore. …
Swamps and the City: Part II
A special guest post by Prof. Grace S. Brush, Johns Hopkins University.My last post discussed how the role of people in shaping the swampy systems of the Everglades had been erased. That erasure paralleled how biophysical processes had…
