Lecture+Schedule

= TSI Home = =Lecture Schedule=  Introduction to Urban Ecology - Eric Strauss Site Selection to conduct field studies with your students - Pete Auger
 * Tuesday July 6th**

Biodiversity – Eric Strauss Building confidence in teaching kids outside - Pete Auger
 * Wednesday July 7th**

Climate Change – Eric Strauss Biodiversity loss in urban ecosystems - Paige Warren
 * Thursday July 8th**

Public Health – Eric Strauss
 * Friday July 9th**

Environmental Justice and Stewardship – Mike Cermak & Tommy Hayes
 * Monday July 12th**

Landscape vegetation and urban bird communities - Susannah Lerman
 * Tuesday July 13th**

Air Quality & Carbon Dioxide - Nathan Phillips
 * Wednesday July 14th**


 * Thursday July 15th**

Final Presentations – Teacher Participants

=** Reading List **=

 Introduction to Urban Ecology - Eric Strauss  Site Selection to conduct field studies with your students - Pete Auger
 * 1) Alberti, M. Advances in Urban Ecology [[file:alberti200_urban_eco.pdf]]
 * 2) Jacobs, Jane. //The Death and Life of Great American Cities//, New York: Vintage Books, 1961.
 * 3) Jacobs, Jane. //The Economy of Cities//, New York: Random House, 1969.
 * 1) Red- tail hawk on Boston College main campus: []
 * 2) Watch video clip on Youtube: []
 * 3) Eyecopia: []
 * 4) I-GOTU: [] this is the website for the geo tagger that tracks GPS coordinates and links to photos
 * 5) Science News, June 20, 2009 article

Biodiversity – Eric Strauss http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5864/756et[|, 756 (2008) 319 Science et al. Nancy B. Grimm, Global Change and the Ecology of Cities]

Biodiversity loss in urban ecosystems - Paige Warren  Climate Change – Eric Strauss
 * 1) Shochat, E., S. B. Lerman, J. M. Anderies, P. S. Warren, S. H. Faeth, and C. H. Nilon. (2010) Invasion, Competition, and Biodiversity Loss in Urban Ecosystems. //BioScience// 60(3):199-208
 * 2) Nilon, C. H., P. S. Warren, J. Wolf. (2009) Baltimore Birdscape Study: Identifying habitat and land cover variables for an urban bird monitoring project. //Urban Habitats// 6
 * 3) Warren, P. S., S. B. Lerman, and N. D. Charney. (2008) Plants of a Feather: Spatial autocorrelation in suburban neighborhoods. //Biological Conservation//141:3-4.



Building confidence in teaching kids outside - Pete Auger Public Health – Eric Strauss

Garrett Hardin, [|"The Tragedy of the Commons"], //Science//, Vol. 162, No. 3859 (December 13, 1968), pp. 1243-1248. 

Career Connections/ STEM connections - Environmental Justice and Stewardship – Mike Cermak & Tommy Hayes  [|http://www.ssbx.org] - Marjora Carter's organization in South Bronx, NY**
 * [|http://www.ejmedia.org] - Environmental Justice at Urban Science Academy

Landscape vegetation and urban bird communities - Susannah Lerman Air Quality & Carbon Dioxide - Nathan Phillips