Seminar: Dr. Matthew Baker on Distinguishing Forest Patches
Seeing Forests for the Trees
Location
Sondheim Hall : 001
Seminar: Dr. Matthew Baker on Distinguishing Forest Patches – Online Event
Date & Time
April 5, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
This past event was recorded live on WebEx and can be viewed here.
The GES Department cordially invites you to join us for the next seminar of Spring 2023.
Topic: Seeing Forests for the Trees: Distinguishing Patches of Forest Within Urban Tree Canopy
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Baker, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems Department, and Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UMBC
Email: mbaker@umbc.edu
Abstract: As urban landscapes continue their global expansion, urban woodlands have received increased attention for their inherent value as remnants and the ecosystem services they provide. Indeed, development of high-resolution urban tree canopy (UTC) maps and targeted sampling campaigns have focused attention on the distribution and condition of urban canopies, but uneven and inequitable distribution of their benefits has made it clear that such efforts, while important and useful, are insufficient for guiding broad policy and site-specific management decisions. Such limitations highlight the need for objective mapping protocols that allow cities to quantify the extent and condition of urban forest patches--and their distinct ecosystem services--from other forms of urban canopy, making their definition more than just a semantic concern. I will describe a rapid, objective, and repeatable method for distinguishing forest patches, including "groves" and "forested natural areas", from other forms of UTC in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I hypothesized that forests have interior spaces that were structurally and functionally different from edges. I expected heightened resistance to exotic invasion, relatively well-developed and functional soil profiles, more complex vertical structure, and evidence of natural reproduction. I found significant differences in tree height, mean canopy dimensions, and developed capacity to make diagnostic characterizations of woodland conditions. I highlight the potential for mapping segments of UTC that allows for improved quantification of attributes, assessment of ownership and equity, and ecosystem services that can be used to direct and refine management policy.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Matthew Baker joined the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems in 2008 and the CAHSS Dean’s office in 2021, but he has been hugging trees as long as he can remember. He graduated with a BA (1992) in English and Ecology from Emory University, a MS (1996) in Terrestrial Ecology from the University of Michigan, and a PhD (2002) in Aquatic Ecology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Baker’s expertise includes basic and applied research in applied ecology, quantitative analysis, hydrology, as well as geographic information systems and remote sensing. He serves as Associate Editor of the journal Freshwater Science and has held appointments as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, as a Research Professor for the US Geological Survey, and as a Maryland Fellow at the National Center for Socioecological Synthesis. At UMBC, he has taught courses in Physical Geography, Watershed Science and Management, Watershed Analysis Modeling, Forest Ecology, Riparian Ecology, and Graduate Research Methods.
Climate Change Teach-In - IPCC Report
Hot Takes on the Latest IPCC Report
Location
Sondheim Hall : 001
Climate Change Teach-In - IPCC Report – Online Event
Date & Time
March 30, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Description
Come hear Dr. Maggie Holland and Dr. Andy Miller discuss their hot takes on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report! Please note this event is hybrid and is available both on WebEx and in person.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
Climate Change Teach-In - Maryland
Climate Change & Society in the Context of Maryland
Location
Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) : 239
Climate Change Teach-In - Maryland – Online Event
Date & Time
March 30, 2023, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Description
Come hear Dr. Maggie Holland discuss climate change & society in the context of Maryland! Please note this event is hybrid and is available both on WebEx and in person. Dr. Holland is opening her regular classroom specifically for this lecture and has 10-12 extra seats available for Teach-In attendees not enrolled in the class. If you would like to attend but find that seating fills quickly, you are welcome to attend online via the "Join Online Event" button at the top of this announcement.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
Climate Change Teach-In - Basic Science
Basic Science on Climate Change
Location
Physics : 101
Climate Change Teach-In - Basic Science – Online Event
Date & Time
March 29, 2023, 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Description
Come hear Ms. Nancy McAllister unpack the basic science of climate change! Please note this event is hybrid and is available both on WebEx and in person. Ms. McAllister is opening her regular classroom specifically for this lecture and has 10-12 extra seats available for Teach-In attendees not enrolled in the class. If you would like to attend but seating fills quickly, you are welcome to attend online via the "Join Online Event" button at the top of this announcement.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
Seminar: Dr. Andrea Roberts on Co-Creating Counternarratives
Foundations for Just Planning & Preservation
Location
Online
Seminar: Dr. Andrea Roberts on Co-Creating Counternarratives – Online Event
Date & Time
March 29, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
The GES Department cordially invites you to join us for the next seminar of Spring 2023.
Topic: Co-Creating Counternarratives: Foundations for Just Planning & Preservation
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Roberts, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and Co-Director, Center for Cultural Landscapes, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, Founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project
Email: aroberts318@virginia.edu
Abstract: America’s operating assumptions about people, places, and power are embedded in various narratives that inform the discourse on climate adaptation, systemic racism, gender identity, and infrastructure needs. Consequently, planners, preservationists, and infrastructure planners must contend with operating assumptions. This process must make space for co-creating counternarratives to help prevent cultural erasure, yield intersectional solutions, and foster authentic consultation with all stakeholders. Co-creating new creation and policy narratives are foundational to equitable practice.
This talk presents The Texas Freedom Colonies Project Atlas, a case study in applied, justice-centered counternarrative and countermapping work. Freedom colonies, historic Black settlements whose dispersed, surviving descendants endeavor to preserve their communities, exist at the intersection of growth pressure, chronic underdevelopment, and co-located endangered historic sites. The Project’s Atlas crowdsources public data, memories, and stories about disappearing, previously undocumented settlements and co-constructs counternarratives arguing for settlements’ historic significance, thereby correcting planning and preservation assumptions that lead to the erasure and destruction of these places. The Project’s documentation, surveying, and engaged scholarship have identified previously unrecognized historic settlements, illuminated infrastructure needs—broadband, improved water and sewer systems—and increased the likelihood that preservation and planning confront the existence of vulnerable Black cemeteries and structures during transportation planning. The presenter discusses plans to expand the lessons learned in new contexts, including the mid-Atlantic region.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Andrea Roberts is Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and Co-Director of the School’s Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) School of Architecture. Before joining UVA, Dr. Roberts was Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She holds a Ph.D. in planning from The University of Texas at Austin (2016), an M.A. in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania (2006), and a B.A. in political science from Vassar College (1996). As a scholar-activist she brings 12 years of experience in community development, nonprofit administration, and advocacy to her engaged research and public scholarship. In 2014, she founded The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, through which she mentors and trains future planners, preservationists, scholars, and community-based researchers to challenge freedom colony invisibility, environmental injustice, and land loss. She and her team map these settlements via The Texas Freedom Colonies Project™ Atlas and Study, propagating interdisciplinary research and pedagogical frameworks, including Critical Place Studies and Diasporic, Black Feminist, and African American Planning Studies. Roberts was a 2020-21 Whiting Public Engagement Fellow, an African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant recipient, a 2020 Visiting Scholar at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, and Co-Project Director for the 2022 NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty. She is a Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies Advisory Board member an is currently authoring a book, Never Sell the Land, for The University of Texas Press.
Dissertation Defense: Karyn Tabor - Conservation, Satellites
Linking Satellite Information to Conservation Actions
Location
Sondheim Hall : 001
Dissertation Defense: Karyn Tabor - Conservation, Satellites – Online Event
Date & Time
March 29, 2023, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description
The GES Department cordially invites you to join us for the public portion of Karyn Tabor's defense of her doctoral dissertation.
Topic: Achieving Multiple Conservation Goals with Satellite-Based Monitoring and Alert Systems
Speaker: Karyn Tabor,
GES Ph.D. Candidate
Email: ktabor1@umbc.edu
Abstract: Conservation early warning and alert systems (CEAS) provide substantial opportunities to improve awareness of global change and deliver time-sensitive information to users taking measures to avert the loss of ecosystems that provide critical services to support human well-being. In recent years, the conservation community has fostered a proliferation of CEAS that utilize the near real-time capabilities of Earth observation satellites to monitor global changes and inform strategic and effective responses to emerging ecosystem threats. However, the inequities in access and use of satellite based-monitoring technologies undermine and limit the full potential of these systems for achieving conservation goals. In this doctoral research, I reviewed the current suite of CEAS and highlighted gaps in the literature to describe or evaluate their applications. I also investigated the challenges to accessing CEAS by a broader set of conservation decision-makers while considering the risks of amplifying social and digital inequities. Finally, I focused on the development of CEAS for tropical land management in Colombia and analyzed how institutions integrate fire alert systems into national decision-making frameworks. Through this investigation of a specific subset of tools in the rapidly evolving conservation technology field, I produced a set of recommendations for donors, developers, and practitioners to better leverage CEAS for informed conservation actions.
Climate Teach-In - Managing Water
Climate Change and Water Resource Management
Location
The Commons : 331
Date & Time
March 28, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Description
Come hear Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama discuss water resource management in the context of climate change! Please note this event is not hybrid and is held solely in person. This is one of several Climate Change Teach-Ins held today, Tuesday March 28.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
Climate Change Teach-In - Air Quality Connections
Air Quality and Climate Change: Common Struggles
Location
The Commons : 331
Date & Time
March 28, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Description
Come hear Dr. Dawn Biehler discuss common struggles across the issues of air quality and climate change! Please note this event is not hybrid and is held solely in person. This is one of several Climate Change Teach-Ins held today, Tuesday March 28.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
Climate Change Teach-ins - Reparations
Climate Change Reparations
Location
The Commons : 331
Date & Time
March 28, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Come hear Dr. Blake Francis discuss climate change reparations! This is one of several Climate Change Teach-Ins held today, Tuesday March 28.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
Climate Change Teach-In - Ice Loss
Landsat Greenland Ice Loss
Location
The Commons : 331
Climate Change Teach-In - Ice Loss – Online Event
Date & Time
March 28, 2023, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Description
Come kick off the 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series with us! Learn from Dr. Christopher Shuman about using Landsat in the study of Greenland ice loss (Please note this talk is offered in person and virtually). This is the first of several Climate Change Teach-Ins held today, Tuesday March 28.
The 2023 Climate Change Teach-in series is hosted by the UMBC Climate Action Steering Committee's Education & Outreach Group. Participating departments and offices include the Office of Sustainability, the Department of GES, the School of Public Policy, the Department of Philosophy, and GESTAR-II.
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