Faculty and Staff

University of Maryland Landscape Architecture faculty have a wide variety of educational backgrounds (landscape architecture, art, biology, plant science, environmental planning, city and regional planning, and geography) and academic and professional experiences. Our collaborative scholarship, creative research, innovative teaching, and service reinforce an interdisciplinary and systems approach to design, planning, and management that are the hallmark of landscape architectural practice. We stress the importance of solving problems responsibly and imaginatively. The studio experience engages students in the process of creating comprehensive alternatives for real and hypothetical design interventions in cultural and natural landscapes. We hope you will consider joining us in protecting and restoring sensitive and critical environments, and creating socially equitable, ecologically sustainable, and economically viable landscapes.

  Faculty Focus
Dr. Victoria Chanse Victoria Chanse, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
email: vchanse@umd.edu
room: PLS 2136
phone: 301.405.4345
  • Civic engagement across multiple scales in the built environment
  • Trans-disciplinary approaches to sea level change design and planning
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Environmental justice
Dr. Christopher Ellis Christopher Ellis, Ph.D., PLA, ASLA
Associate Professor
email: cdellis@umd.edu
room: PLS 2144
phone: 301.405.7782
  • Landscape performance
  • Sustainable development
  • Landscape ecology
  • Environmental perception
  • Information technology for landscape planning and design
Dr. Byoung-Suk Kweon Byoung-Suk Kweon, Ph.D., PLA
Assistant Professor
email: kweonb@umd.edu
room: PLS 2140
phone: 301.405.4341
  • Environmental perception
  • School and children’s environments
  • Alternative transportation
  • Environmental justice
  • Elderly environments
Dr. David Myers David Myers, Ph.D., PLA, ASLA
Associate Professor
Coordinator
email: dnmyers@umd.edu
room: PLS 2146
phone: 301.405.4350
skype: david.myers.asla
  • Forest conservation
  • Landscape ecology
  • Green infrastructure and community greening
  • Greenway planning and design
Dr. Dennis Nola Dennis Nola, PLA, ASLA
Instructor
Associate Coordinator
room: PLS 2138
email: dnola@umd.edu
phone: 301.405.0066
  • Sustainable campus design and planning
  • Urban agriculture
  • Environmental restoration
Dr. Jack Sullivan Jack Sullivan, PLA, FASLA
Associate Professor
email: jack@umd.edu
room: PLS 2142
phone: 301.405.0106
  • Livable and sustainable urban environments
  • Urban design
     
  Adjunct Faculty  
Ann Anderson Ann Anderson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
email: ann.slovak.anderson@gmail.com		  
Colleen Bathon Colleen Bathon, ASLA
Adjunct Instructor
email: cbathon22@gmail.com		  
Dr. Kelly Cook Kelly Cook, Ph.D
Adjunct Assistant Professor
room: PLS Room 2154A
email: kdc25@umd.edu		  
  Doug Davies, Associate ASLA
Adjunct Instructor
email: doug.a.davies@gmail.com		  
Arlie Ison Arlie Ison
Adjunct Assistant Professor
email:arlieison@comcast.net		  
Jack Leonard Jack Leonard, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP
Adjunct Assistant Professor
JGL Design Associates
email: jack@jgldesign.com		  
     
     
     


  Staff
Patrick Beach Patrick Beach, Systems Analyst
email: pslatech@umd.edu
office: 2125J Plant Sciences Building
phone: 301.405.1730 fax: 301.314.9308
Chris Behnke Chris Behnke, IT Support Associate
email: pslatech@umd.edu
office: 2139 Plant Sciences Building
phone: 301.405.7463 fax: 301.314.9308
Diana Cortez Diana Cortez, Program Management Specialist
email:dcortez@umd.edu
office: 2139 Plant Sciences Building
phone: 301.405.4359 fax: 301.314.9308