Experience:
Landscape Designer
April 2019 - November 2019
Greater Sudbury, Ontario
Project Manager & Landscape Steward
September 2015 - November 2018
Guelph, Ontario
Sessional Instructor - LARC 2240: Plants in the Landscape
School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
September 2015 - December 2016
Guelph, Ontario
Seasonal Horticulturist
University of Guelph Arboretum
April 2012 - September 2015
Guelph, Ontario
Teaching Assistant
School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
Courses:
Planting Design (January - April 2014 & January - April 2015)
Plants in the Landscape (September - December 2014)
Landscape Ecology (September - December 2013)
Guelph, Ontario
Horticulturist
UBC Botanical Garden & Nitobe Memorial Garden
May 2009 - July 2011
Vancouver, BC
Greenhouse & Teaching Assistant
April 2008 - December 2008
Vancouver, BC
Education:
University of Guelph - Master of Landscape Architecture (2015)
Course Highlights: Environmental Design, Community Design, Plants in the Landscape, Landscape Resource Analysis, Integrative Environmental Planning, Research Methods, Critical Inquiry / Research Analysis
Thesis: Exploring the Relationship Between Academic Knowledge & Practice in Landscape Architecture
University of British Columbia - Bachelor of Science (2009)
Course Highlights: Weed Science, Seed Plant Taxonomy, Non-vascular Plants, Plants and People, Introduction to Bryophytes, Plant Physiology I & II, Community & Ecosystem Biology, Population Biology, Historical Geography of Canada
Publications:
Abstract
Landscape architecture is a young discipline relative to other design-based fields, such as engineering or architecture. The unique knowledge, processes, and capacities of landscape architects—central requirements of a recognizable profession—are currently broad and largely undefined. The profession needs to have clearly defined knowledge domains recognized by other disciplines and the public. This study used four sources of evidence to identify core landscape architecture knowledge domains: (1) a census of land design and development professionals from the 1970s; (2) a sample of U.S. landscape architects in the early 2000s; (3) two systematic reviews of articles published in Landscape Journal over a 25-year period; and, (4) courses offered in accredited first-professional Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) programs across North America. Ten knowledge domains were identified, none of which were unique to landscape architecture. Two domains, design and natural, were identified by all data sources to be core to landscape architecture. However, the connections between knowledge domains, rather than the domains themselves, and a focus on conceptualizing appropriate change to the landscape, might more appropriately define the core domains of landscape architecture.
Awards:
Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture (CSLA) Prize
School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
June 2015
Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (OALA) Scholarship
School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
November 2014
Dean's Scholarship
School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
September 2014
Volunteering & Memberships:
Society for Ecological Restoration
September 2014 - September 2018
Pollination Guelph
Board Member
June 2015 - March 2017
International Honour Society of Landscape Architecture
Sigma Lambda Alpha - Beta Iota Chapter
Society for Ecological Restoration - University of Guelph Student Chapter
Vice President - Founding Member
September 2014 - May 2015