The Ecologists Turning Vacant lots Into Labs
From The Atlantic Feb 8, 2018 On a frigid day in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Harlem Park, Chris Swan parks his pickup on a block where vacant lots outnumber […]
Baltimore Ecosystem Study partners with Baltimore City Public Schools
$1.2 million NSF award will integrate local data into chemistry curriculum Through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) is partnering with Baltimore […]
Bug Hunt
What’s the link between poverty, disinvestment, and mosquitoes? Every July, for four years running, Shannon LaDeau inspected nine ceramic toilets sitting idly in a vacant lot behind a building, near […]
A mobile app and the story of Urban Diatoms
Why and How the Baltimore Ecosystem Study uses iNaturalist iNaturalist is an online biodiversity information platform and app. It connects scientists, citizens, and naturalists in sharing observations and occurrences of species […]
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