Spring 2016 Lecture Series
In Spring 2016, Hixon hosted two speaker events. On April 5, Dr. Kathleen Wolf, Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment, University of Washington, gave a lunch talk on Valuation of Metro Nature: Target Public Health Costs. She gave a a second talk on “The Evolution of Nature in Cities: Sanitary to Sustainable to Sacred” on Wed, April 6, at 123 Huntington Street. Both talks were co-hosted by CAES (Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station). On April 21, J. Morgan Grove, who is a team leader and research scientist at the Baltimore Field Station, USDA Forest Service, and Steward Pickett, who is a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. came for a panel discussion on the topic of The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities.
Speaker Information
Dr. Kathleen Wolf is a Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment, University of Washington. She is also aresearch associate with the US Forest Service Pacific NW Research Station in the development of a program on Urban Natural Resources Stewardship. Kathy's studies are based on the principles of environmental psychology; her professional mission is to discover, understand and communicate human behavior and benefits, as people experience nature in cities and towns. She is also interested in how scientific information can be integrated into local government policy and planning. An overview of Dr. Wolf's research programs can be found at www.naturewithin.info; additional research findings on Green Cities: Good Health:www.greenhealth.washington.edu
Speaker Information
Dr. Kathleen Wolf is a Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment, University of Washington. She is also aresearch associate with the US Forest Service Pacific NW Research Station in the development of a program on Urban Natural Resources Stewardship. Kathy's studies are based on the principles of environmental psychology; her professional mission is to discover, understand and communicate human behavior and benefits, as people experience nature in cities and towns. She is also interested in how scientific information can be integrated into local government policy and planning. An overview of Dr. Wolf's research programs can be found at www.naturewithin.info; additional research findings on Green Cities: Good Health:www.greenhealth.washington.edu
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Morgan Grove is a social scientist and Team Leader for the USDA Forest Service’s Baltimore Urban Field Station and is a lecturer at Yale University. He joined the USDA Forest Service in 1996 and has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) since its beginning in 1997. Morgan has a B.A. from Yale College with a dual degree in Architecture and Environmental Studies, a M.F.S. in Community Forestry from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from Yale University.
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Steward Pickett, a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in Millbrook, New York, is an expert in the ecology of plants, landscapes, and urban systems. He was awarded the PhD by the University of Illinois in 1977. He directs the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, Long-Term Ecological Research program, and co-directs the Urban Sustainability Research Coordination Network. His research focuses on the ecological structure of urban areas and the temporal dynamics of vegetation, which has taken him to the primary forests of western Pennsylvania, the post-agricultural oldfields of New Jersey, and the riparian woodlands and savannas of Kruger National Park, South Africa. He has edited or written books on ecological heterogeneity, humans as components of ecosystems, conservation, the linkage of ecology and urban design, the philosophy of ecology, and ecological ethics. He has served as President of the Ecological Society of America, as well has having been that organization’s inaugural Vice President for Science.
