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 in the scheduling of the grant cycle by the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are obliged to […]
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 in the past been ignored in thinking about urban systems. Because Baltimore is a coastal city, […]
With the announcement on Wednesday, December 3rd, of the overview of recommendations from Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s Sustainability Commission, the region enters an exciting and important time. The jurisdictions directly responsible for the majority of the Baltimore metropolitan region, including not only the City of Baltimore, but Baltimore County and the State of Maryland, now […]
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