January 24, 2014
Urban Ecosystem Services Symposium:
About the Conference
Schedule of Events
Breakfast
Welcome
Dean Peter Crane
Keynote
Mayor Caswell Holloway
Presentation of Models
Approaches to understanding and quantifying urban ecosystem services. Presenters will showcase diverse ecosystem services models sharing how
they can quantify, monitor, and describe the urban ecosystem services in
cities. Panelists will explore how these tools have been applied, current
limitations and what they accomplish that other models cannot.
Edward Barbier
Erika Svendsen
David Nowak
Leslie Shoemaker
Rob McDonald
Lunch
Panel One: Urban Micro-Climate
The panel includes a mix of researchers, urban planners and municipal
policy-makers to connect science and research to on-the-ground projects.
What urban microclimate management strategies are being practiced
and what goals (comfort, health, energy reduction) do we hope to
achieve with them? Is the effectiveness of these management strategies
quantifiable? How do we combine positive and negative effects into
a common set of matrices? How should we improve current ways of
measuring urban heat island to better represent human exposure?
Winston Chow
Aaron Durnbaugh
Stuart Gaffin
Tom Matte
Xuhiu Lee
Moderator
Panel Two: Green Infrastructure and Stormwater
The panel includes a mix of researchers, regulators, communitybased
program managers and municipal policy-makers. The goal
is to encourage a conversation that connects the most recent green
stormwater infrastructure research, development and regulation to onthe-
ground projects. The discussion will focus on questions like: Within
the world of sustainable stormwater management, what do we need to
care about next? What questions for research are the most pressing?
Where are the gaps in knowledge? What are the barriers to widespread
implementation?
Ellen Gilinsky
Mike Houck
Aaron Koch
Franco Montalto
Jennifer Hoyle
Moderator
Panel Three: Coastal Protection, Sea Level Rise & Hurricanes
How are coastal cities working with natural capital to attenuate
sea level rise and coastal flooding in extreme events? This panel
will build on experience and case studies to elaborate on ecosystem
services related to coastal adaptation. Building on the discussions
on models in the morning, we will explore the relevance and shortfalls
of the models used to assess coastal risks. What are the roles of
FEMA, the Federal Flood Insurance Program, community disaster
recovery funds and block grants, and scientists analyzing tradeoffs
between gray (levees) and green (marshes)? What lessons does
New Orleans have for New York? What lessons are valuable across
urban to rural gradients?
Roselle Henn
Denise Reed
Gavin Smith
Dan Zarrilli
Alexander Felson
Panel Four: The Use & Stewardship of Multifunctional Landscapes
This panel advances the notion that social and cultural processes
are critical to the health and resilience of urban ecosystems; that
these processes are complex; and that they require inquiry. The
questions remain: how do we understand the role of social and
cultural processes and infrastructure in urban ecosystems; and how
do we factor this understanding into ecological assessments that
so often rely on quantitative data and biophysical indicators? The
conversation will explore the dynamics of social and cultural values
and their bearing on urban ecosystem services, natural resource
management, and human well-being.
Lindsay Campbell
Morgan Grove
Hans Hesselein
Keith Tidball
Gillian Bane
Moderator
Closing Remarks
Gaboury Benoit