Cary Conference VIII Convened: April 27 - 29, 1999 Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY
Posters from the Current Frontiers Forums

Current Frontiers Forum on Urban Ecosystem Research

• Lawrence E. Band, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina
  Abstracting the fundamentals of watershed form and function: Modeling along the urban to rural gradient.
  
  
• Paul H. Gobster, North Central Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service
  Human dimensions of urban ecosystems.
  
  
• Carolyn Harrison, Department of Geography, University College London
  Models of sustainable development and environmental citizenship.
  
  
• Maciej Luniak, Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Animal wildlife in urban ecosystems.
  
  
• Rusong Wang, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Understaing the Urban Eco-Complex Concepts and Practics in China.
  
  
• John B. Wolford, Missouri Historical Society
  Urban cultural ecology and anthropology: what they contribute to an understanding of urban ecosystems.

Current Frontiers Forum on Urban Ecosystem Education Practice

• Kathy Barrett, Global Systems Science, Lawrence Hall of Science
  Curriculum and teacher development through the Global Systems Science program.
  
  
• Henry Campa III, Delia F. Reymer and Christine Hanaburgh, Michigan State University
  Ecosystem management education: teaching and learning principles and applications.
  
  
• Bruce W. Grant, Departments of Biology and Environmental Science, Widener University
  "Campus ecology" as a means to urban ecological literacy.
  
  
• Lisa LaRocque, Project del Rio
  How Project del Rio helps teachers and students develop understandings of the local river/watershed as a system.
  
  
• Susan Mockenhaupt, Urban Resources Partnership, USDA Forest Service
  Urban Resources Partnership project models for fostering an understanding of urban ecosystems.
  
  
• Joseph Poracsky, Portland State University, James Gillen, Green City Data Program, Saturday Academy/Oregon Graduate Institute, Kim Wilson, Audubon Society of Portland, and Douglas Saulter, Portsmouth Middle School
  Youth-based tree inventory and GIS analysis for urban ecosystem education.
  
  
• Randall E. Raymond, Department of Strategic Planning and Resource Analysis, Detroit Public Schools
  Urban environmental education in Detroit - connecting the schools and community through the education of students in geographic information systems.
  
  
• Bora Simmons, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Northern Illinois University
  Understanding the local environment.
  
  
• Gary C. Smith, California Department of Education
  The California Guide for Environmental Literacy: Creating sustainable communities and environmental literacy using systems thinking, hope, and developing a sense of place.
  
  
• Daniel Strauss, High School for Environmental Studies, New York City
  The local, urban environment as an integrating context for a school’s curriculum.