Conference: Baltimore Earth Stewardship Initiative Demonstration Project, Baltimore, MD; August 9 - 14, 2015

城市环境是人为人设计的。这种设计在人类健康和福祉方面的生态后果是巨大的。生态知识如何最好地为城市设计提供信息？这个示范项目，这是地球管理倡议的一部分，将汇集城市管理者，景观设计师，社区领袖和生态学家设想未来的巴尔的摩的人民和社区。促进生态学家在塑造城市设计中的新作用将需要谈判新的合作，这些合作将在2015年美国生态学会年会上展示，该年会将在巴尔的摩举行。研究生研究员，景观建筑师，巴尔的摩市政府官员，研究生态学家，建筑工作室，高中生和社区成员将平等地参加示范。在8月会议期间合作开发的项目将通过耶鲁大学提供的研究生课程进一步开发？环境研究和建筑的联合计划。这一倡议得到了美国生态学会（Ecological Society of American）应用生态学、人类生态学、环境正义、教育、自然历史、农业生态学和亚洲生态学等部门的支持。今年的地球管理示范活动将把社区对社区、绿色空间和环境管理的看法与对研究和塑造城市环境和加强社区感兴趣的城市生态研究人员联系起来。团队将通过一系列步骤扩展3个新生的巴尔的摩振兴项目，将生态研究实验与社区规划和城市生态系统功能结合起来。弗吉尼亚大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学和马里兰州大学的景观设计工作室通过设计过程对这些地点进行了调查，并在每个地点制作了材料。研究生研究员将作为核心调查员和生态和设计顾问的组织者。六个项目主题为将要开发的项目提供信息：公共卫生，获取和娱乐;退化的土壤和土地;景观性能，教育和维护;流域和水生生态系统;生物多样性和管理的人口;以及气候变化适应。这些示范项目将通过各种活动实施，包括参观巴尔的摩的振兴地点、城市生物区、特别和有组织的介绍会、社区讲习班、景观建筑基础讲习班、设计小作品和市政厅公开会议。研究生领导将为三个网站中的每一个开发一个项目，这些项目将在秋季课程中进一步开发。

Urban environments are designed by people for people. The ecological consequences of this design in terms of human health and well being are large. How can ecological knowledge best inform urban design? This demonstration project, which is part of the Earth Stewardship Initiative, will bring together city managers, landscape designers, community leaders, and ecologists to envision the future of Baltimore's people and neighborhoods. Promoting a new role for ecologists in shaping urban design will require negotiating new collaborations that will be demonstrated during the 2015 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, which will be held in Baltimore. Graduate research fellows, landscape architects, Baltimore city officials, research ecologists, architecture studios, high school students, and community members will participate equally in the demonstration. Projects developed collaboratively during the August meeting will be further developed through a graduate course offered through Yale University?s joint program in Environmental Studies and Architecture. The initiative has garnered support across the Ecological Society of American from its sections on applied ecology, human ecology, environmental justice, education, natural history, agroecology, and Asian ecology.This year's Earth Stewardship Demonstration initiative will link community perspectives on neighborhoods, green space, and environmental stewardship with urban ecological researchers interested in studying and shaping urban environments and strengthening communities. Teams will extend 3 nascent Baltimore revitalization projects through a series of steps that bring together ecological research experiments with community planning and urban ecosystems functioning. Landscape Architecture Studios at the University of Virginia, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Maryland have investigated these sites through the design process and generated materials on each of them. Graduate research fellows will serve as core investigators and organizers with ecology and design advisors. Six project themes inform the projects that will be developed: Public Health, Access and Recreation; Degraded Soils and Land; Landscape Performance, Education and Maintenance; Watersheds and Aquatic Habitats; Biodiversity and Managed Populations; and Climate Change Adaptation. The demonstration projects will be implemented through diverse activities, including visits to revitalization sites in Baltimore, an urban bioblitz, special and organized presentation sessions, a community workshop, a landscape architecture foundation workshop, design charrettes, and an open town hall meeting. Graduate student leaders will develop a project for each of the three sites that will be further developed in a fall course.