The Baltimore Ecosystem Study has been a National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site since 1998. Visit other LTER sites.
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The Baltimore Ecosystem Study has been a National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site since 1998. Visit other LTER sites.
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Science foundation cuts 20-year-old Baltimore ecological study’s funds
Stream research has made significant contributions to understanding human impacts on urban waters, including pharmaceuticals, runoff and sewage For two decades, scientists have been monitoring the streams that flow from […]
Postdoctoral Associate (2)
Full-Time in Millbrook, NY – Scientific POSITION: Recruiting two Postdoctoral Associates to work on synthetic analyses for the the Baltimore Long Term Ecological Research project. We seek postdoctoral researchers interested in synthesis of long-term […]
History of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Program description The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) began in 1998 with three questions to advance the understanding of urban areas as a novel and increasingly important ecosystem type: Structure: What […]
Where Does the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology Apply?
The short answer is “Not just in Baltimore.” Let’s explore this more deeply. A school of thought is a broad way of thinking, strategy for research, and approach to problem […]
What Do People Value About BES?
The 2018 twentieth annual meeting of BES participants, institutional partners, and interested citizens, provided an opportunity to ask people what they thought the most important finding or contribution of BES […]
Branches – Young Environmental Scientists
During the summer of 2015 and for the first time, BES partnered with the Parks & People Foundations’ Branches program to bring BES research to the level of school-age students […]
What’s Hidden in the New York Times Maps of All the Buildings in America?
Much well deserved amazement and attention has been heaped on the recent map of “every building in America,” by Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, and John Schwartz, published on 12 October […]
Why is Urban Sustainability so Hard? The Trap of the Sanitary City
A few months ago, I was having a lively discussion with some serious and dedicated undergraduates at a university I was visiting. The fact that they were disappointed with their […]
Evolution of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Since 1997, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) has enjoyed the support of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program of the Division of Environmental Biology of the US National Science Foundation. That […]
Why Do Urban Ecology?
The ecological science of understanding the structure, workings, and change of urban places has three main reasons to be (raisons d’être, if you prefer the French). One is the fact […]