• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Good Water ChapterGood Water Chapter
  • Home
  • Training Class
    • Training Class Information
    • 2025 Fall Training Class Waitlist
    • Training Class Google Calendar
  • Sign Up Genius
    • Chapter Meeting Hospitality Signup
    • Youth Development Signup
    • Berry Springs Bluebird Nest Watch
    • Bat Volunteers at McNeil Bridge
    • Lake Creek Bluebird Watch
    • Adopt-A-Loop Doeskin Ranch
  • Junior Master Naturalists
  • Youth Development Committee
    • Youth Development Calendar
  • VMS
  • Member Area
    • Reimbursement Forms
      • GWMN Reimbursement Form
      • GWMN Vendor Payment Request Form
      • GWMN Affidavit of Expenditure Form
    • Order your CoCoRaHS rain Gauge
    • Pay Dues Online
    • Texas Volunteer Policy Member Yearly Forms
    • Good Water Membership Requirements
    • Texas Master Naturalist Volunteer Policy
    • Minutes
      • Executive Board Minutes
        • 2022 Executive Board Minutes
        • Historical Minutes
      • Chapter Meeting Minutes
        • 2022 Chapter Meeting Minutes
    • Chapter Videos
  • Contact Us
    • Contact a Board Member
    • Contact a Project Leader
  • Donate
  • Chapter Volunteer Calendar
  • Login
Search

CER Lunchtime Lectures for October

October 2, 2017 by

Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson

  • 2017 Lunchtime Lectures – Understanding Urban Nature: Ecology, Culture, and the American City
  • October 2017 Lunchtime Lecture – Nature Out of Place: Invasive Species, Novel Ecosystems, and Urban Ecology
  • A scientific approach to evaluating urban nature holds the potential of an objective, neutral attitude towards organisms which flourish in the city. However, urban ecology in America is caught in a struggle between advocates of a crusade to eliminate nonnative organisms, especially “invasive” species, from cities and advocates of a focus on urban ecosystem functionality and resilience. Culturally, this struggle over native vs. non-native urban organisms contrasts sharply with the cosmopolitan human project of a city, where great urban centers thrive on “nonnative” human diversity. Scientifically, ecology and biology are maturing as sciences and, literally, coming to terms with urban ecology and its “novel ecosystems” that do not match retrospective standards for what is native to a place. This lecture will access the proper place of urban nature in the new ecology of the 21st century.

 

Oct 11                   Wednesday NOON to 1pm at PARD Senior Activity Center   Lamar 29th St + 2874 Shoal Crest Ave, South Room

Oct 17                   Tuesday NOON to 1pm at the Center for Environmental Research – Hornsby Bend

Oct 19                   Thursday NOON to 1pm at One Texas Center   505 Barton Springs Road + South First Street, Room 325, Austin.

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook

Related

Filed Under: Advanced Training Blog Tagged With: Urban ecology

Subscribe

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

© 2025 Texas A&M University. All rights reserved.

  • Compact with Texans
  • Privacy and Security
  • Accessibility Policy
  • State Link Policy
  • Statewide Search
  • Veterans Benefits
  • Military Families
  • Risk, Fraud & Misconduct Hotline
  • Texas Homeland Security
  • Texas Veterans Portal
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Open Records/Public Information