SPRING 2009 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Wednesdays from 12 to 1 PM
Room 001 Sondheim Hall

March 4
DR. KELLY MALONEY, Ecological Modeling and Spatial Analysis Laboratory
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Land Use Legacies: The Imprint of Historical Land Use on Contemporary Ecosystems

April 1
DR. STEPHEN PRINCE, Professor
Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park
Vegetation Degradation in Global Drylands

April 8
DR. KENNETH R. YOUNG, Program Director
Geography and Regional Science, NSF
Consequences of current environmental change in the Amazon and in the Andes Mountains

April 15
DR. TODD CROWL, Program Director
Division of Environmental Biology, NSF
The Complexity of Overlapping River-Road Networks: It's an Uphill Battle

April 29
DR. ROBERT NEFF, Assistant Professor
Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Urban Fragmentation and Energy Consumption Patterns in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, 1990-2000

May 6
DR. CHRIS SWAN, Assistant Professor
Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Dendritic Network Structure Constrains Metacommunity Properties in Riverine Ecosystems

For more information and updates contact:
Dr. Erle C. Ellis, Associate Professor
Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
211 Sondheim Hall
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Tel: (410) 455-3078
email: ece@umbc.edu
2/16/2009