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.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
12:00pm
Valuation of Metro Nature: Target Public Health Costs
Kathy Wolf, University of Washington
Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
12:00pm
The Evolution of Nature in Cities: Sanitary to Sustainable to Sacred
Kathy Wolf, University of Washington
Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment
Thursday, April 21, 2016
4:15pm
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
Morgan Grove PhD, USDA Forest Service
Scientist and Team Leader, Northern Research Station
Moderator
Steward Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies