Dr. Steward Pickett, BES LTER Founding Director, receives the ESA’s Eminent Ecologist Award

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 […]

The Baltimore Wood Project: creating more vibrant and resilient communities

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 […]

Bedrock to treetops: NSF awards $4.8M to urban environment study led by BES LTER researcher Claire Welty

“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 […]

Congratulations to our 2020 Data Jam Winners!

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 […]

Message from the LTER Network Executive Board on recent events

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 […]

Latest BES LTER BioScience paper featured in podcast

BES LTER Director Emeritus, Dr. Steward Pickett, discusses ‘Theoretical Perspectives of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution in a Social–Ecological Research Project’ on the latest BioScience Talks podcast. Discover how […]

The importance of the new BES LTER theoretical perspectives paper

Theoretical Perspectives of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution in a Social–Ecological Research Project by Pickett et al. is an important addition to urban ecology literature for several reasons. Urban […]

Low-Income Baltimore Blocks Host Bigger, More Dangerous Mosquitoes

Scientific American reports on BES LTER mosquito research… “A new study published last October in the Journal of Medical Entomology found that in Baltimore, low-income neighborhoods bear the biggest burden: they have […]

A walk in the woods – 17 years later

Check out BES graduate student Ian Yesilonis’ post in the Short Stories About Long-Term Research blog. He writes about the ups and downs of urban field research over time. “In […]