On Tuesday, September 24, the School of Natural Resources and Environment has an exciting event from the JJR Lecture Series featuring ecologist Steward Pickett. The talk is titled "Changing Urban Realities and the Evolution of Urban Ecological Science." We were wondering if this is something you can publish in your events or get the word out to EEB students.
The event info is as follows:
Tuesday, September 24
Dana Building Room 1040
4:00pm-5:30pm
Here are some more details on the talk:
Although much is made of the proportion of humanity that now lives in cities as a justification for urban ecological research, the changing nature of urbanization itself presents new opportunities for understanding human ecosystems. This presentation will present a new framework for urban systems in the global context, emphasizing global teleconnections, and contrasts in livelihood, lifestyle, and the local nature of specific urban ecosystems. Urban transformations in this complex context will be illustrated by trends in Baltimore, Maryland, and example data on the watershed function will be presented. The desire of jurisdictions in the metropolitan Baltimore region to become more sustainable drives new research efforts focusing on urban metacommunity structure, urban streams as an extension of the river continuum concept, and new approaches to locational choice of households. The Baltimore case is put in the context of other global urban transformations as a way to advance urban ecological theory.
For more information please visit the event website:
http://www.snre.umich.edu/events/ecologist_steward_pickett_delivers_jjr_lecture_sept_24
