Education
Academic and professional experience
Academic and professional experience
1996-presentLecturer—Landscape Architecture
-Teaching, Thesis Communittees, Design Critic: landscape theory, planning, and design, restoration and reclamation, landscape resource management, ecological planning and design, and identity and dynamic of communities in urban and rural environments.
1996-present
Project Leader for Landscape Systems Projects with Stan Johnson, Vice
Provost, Iowa State University Extension
-National River Restoration Strategy, Corps of Engineers
-Hills of the Great Plains-Great Plains Regional Environmental Initiative,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
-Landscape systems planning, policy, and design for community and regional
programming
2001-2002
1993-2002 1986-2001 1985-2000 1986-1990 1977-1986 1975-1977 1973-1974 Education
Interim Associate Director, Iowa State University Extension to Communities
- Administrative activites, assist program coordination, policy, and program
development
- Landscape systems approach to program development and education ranging
in scale from communities to regions. Program areas include community
policy,planning, and design, community management, and community leadership.
Director, Conservation Foundation
- Programming in park planning and design, environmental education, natural
resource management, and historical and cultural resources and land acquisition.
Director, Dallas County Conservation Department
- Direct a comprehensive regional conservation education, natural resource,
historical and cultural resource and recreation program
- Administer the Raccoon River Greenbelt program including zoning, land
use, land management, watershed management, open space design and development,
and multiple agency coordination of the 137,000 acre project
- Manage historical, archaeological, recreational, and natural resources
of the county and watershed region
- Direct environmental education program, staff, and educational centers
and museum
- Administration of twelve park and wildlife areas
- Write and administer grants for research, planning, development, and
land acquisition
Principal, Resource Management Associates -Consultant specializing in
park and open space design, planning, and construction, interpretive design,
social and ecological relationships, didactic landscape design, landscape
resource management, and environmental planning
Director, Dallas County Environmental Health Department -Administration
and field work in organization and development of the Environmental Health
Department
Resource Manager and Environmental Education Coordinator, Corps of
Engineers, Rock Island District, Saylorville Lake - Manage wildlife and
forestry resources and environmental education programs - Administer resource
management budgets up to $2.2 million - Managed natural resources for
24,000 acres of developed and undeveloped parkland - Environmental Education
Coordinator for schools, organized groups, and public - Designed and developed
interpretive exhibits, visitor center, and programming
Microbiologist/Technician, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Animal Disease
Center - Diagnostic and Research Microbiology
Pathology Technician, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa
City, Iowa 1972 National Park Service, Rocky Mountain National Park, volunteer, back
country and trail development
Academic and professional experience