8:00 AM alberti, marina^{*,1, 2}, hepinstal, jeff², booth, derek³, coe, stefan², spirandelli, daniele², jiang, ian², avolio, christine³, ¹ department of urban design and planning, seattle, wa, usa² urban ecology research lab, seattle, wa, usa³ department of civil and environmental engineering, seattle, wa, usa Modeling urban landscape patterns and their effects on aquatic ecosystems.

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8:20 AM Costanza, Robert^*,1, ¹ Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Burlington, VT, USA Ecological economics: Reintegrating the study of humans and the rest of nature.

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8:40 AM Hope, D^*,1, Gries, C¹, Kaye, J¹, Zhu, W², Stuart, G¹, Oleson, J¹, Katti, M¹, Warren and N Grimm, P^{1, 3}, ¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA² SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA³ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA How do humans restructure the biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert?

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9:00 AM Marzluff, John^*,1, Angell, Tony, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle The City Wonderful: Keeping ecological mysteries in urbanizing environments.

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9:20 AM Berkowitz, Alan^*,1, Cadenasso, M.¹, Boone, C.², Band, L.³, Law, N.³, Groffman, P.¹, Pickett, S.¹, ¹ Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY² Ohio University, Athens³ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Opportunities and challenges for ecology in the Baltimore ecosystem.

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9:40 AM Break.

9:50 AM Palmer, Margaret^*,1, Nelson, Karen¹, ¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD Conserving and restoring urbanizing watersheds: Biodiversity or ecological process endpoints?

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