Authors

Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He received the Ph.D. degree in city and regional planning, with a major in urban design, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds the M.Arch. degree from MIT and a B.Arch. from Cornell University.

Steinitz has devoted much of his academic and professional career to improving methods by which planners and designers analyze information about large land areas and make decisions about conservation and development. His teaching encompasses such courses as Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning and Visual Resource Analysis and Management. He has directed many landscape planning studies, most often of existing, highly valued landscapes that are undergoing substantial pressures for change. These have included Yosemite, Minuteman, Acadia and Gateway National Parks, the Gunnison region of Colorado, the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, the Park City area of Utah, and Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

Carl Steinitz has been the coordinator and editor of the research program. In addition, the alternative futures for the region of Camp Pendleton are the work of graduate students in his studio course, and the visual quality model results from his seminar.

Graduate Student Authors, Harvard Graduate School of Design Alternative #1: Spread: Patricia Bales, Hilary Bidwell, Martin Mildbrandt

Alternative #2: Spread with 2010 Conservation: Patricia Bales, Hilary Bidwell, Martin Mildbrandt

Alternative #3: Private Conservation: Kenneth Goldsmith, Bert Hoffman, Hillary Quarles, Atsushi Tsunekawa

Alternative #4: Multi-Centers: Derek Bowser, Jonathon Crowder, Debra Friedman, Gweng Ya Han, Carrie Steinbaum

Alternative #5: New City: David Barnard, Jorgen Blomberg, Koa Pickering, Robert Winstead, Ephrat Yovel

Scenic Highway: Derek Bowser

Interstate-15 Wildlife Crossing: Carrie Steinbaum

Visual Prefence: Patricia Bales, Jorgen Blomberg, Hillary Quarles

Studio Professor: Carl Steinitz
Teaching Fellow: Allan Shearer

Michael W. Binford is a freshwater ecologist who has published numerous articles on land-water interactions, human activities in lacustrine ecosystems, and long-term changes in natural systems. More recently he has worked on modeling the hydrological and ecosystem consequences of land-use change caused by scenarios of future development. He is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Field of Landscape Ecology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Binford received the M.S. in fisheries biology and experimental statistics from Louisiana State University and the Ph.D. in zoology and geology from Indiana University. He teaches courses in landscape and site ecology, principles of hydrology, and the ecology and restoration of wetlands, streams, and lakes. He also teaches and conducts research on ecological issues in developing nations.

Michael Binford is responsible for the hydrological aspects of the research.

Paul Cote is a Geographic Information Systems Specialist at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He is a cartographer who worked for Rand McNally and Simon and Schuster before joining the GSD.

Cote received the B.A. in Geography from Indiana University, and the Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches geographic informations systems and conducts developmental research in data management and cartography.

Paul Cote was responsible for data management and cartographic programming for the study.

Thomas C. Edwards, Jr. received his B.S. in wildlife management from Humboldt State University, his M.S. in biology from the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from the University of Florida. He currently is the Assistant Leader at the Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit of the National Biological Service, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Utah State University. He teaches graduate level classes in conservation biology, biogeography and biostatistics.

Edwards has worked with a variety of sensitive and threatened and endangered species, including bald and golden eagles, ospreys, snowy plovers, and the Utah prairie dog. His current research interests include habitat needs for neotropical migrant birds and the development of methods for assessing and monitoring biological diversity at large landscape scales.

Thomas Edwards, with Kiester, is responsible for the models of species richness.

Stephen M. Ervin is Director of Computer Resources at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches courses in landscape technology, landscape planning and design, and computer applications. Ervin received the Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ervin has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the recipient of an Apple/ICEC fellowship at MIT. He has published research on computer-aided design and computer graphics applications. His research interests include design computing and the integration of geographic information systems in landscape architecture.

Stephen Ervin is responsible for the design and implementation of the computing infrastructure within which this study has been conducted.

Richard T. T. Forman is Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches courses in natural systems and landscape ecology, which explore basic principles of structure, function, and change of landscapes.

Forman received the B.S. from Haverford College and the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored numerous articles and books, including Landscape Ecology (1986) with Michel Godron and Land Mosaics (1995), and coedited Changing Landscapes (1990) with I. Zonneveld. He has served as vice president of the Ecological Society of America and the International Association for Landscape Ecology. He currently studies boundaries, shapes, and corridors, models landscape change, and develops landscape ecology theory.

Richard Forman's theoretical approach is the basis of the analysis of the landscape ecological pattern.

Craig W. Johnson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. He received a B.L.A. degree from Michigan State University, an M.L.A. degree from the University of Illinois, and an M.S. degree in fisheries and wildlife biology from South Dakota State University.

He is a licensed landscape architect in the States of Idaho, Minnesota, and Utah, where he is actively involved as a design and planning consultant. Eleven of his projects have received state and national awards. Johnson has authored two books on urban forestry, one on land reclamation, and one on planning and design for urban wildlife. In 1988 he was recognized by Utah State University as Humanist of the Year, in part for his ongoing landscape restoration research on the Jordan River.

Craig Johnson is responsible for the single species habitat models, and the design plans for restoration of the sewage treatment ponds on Camp Pendleton.

Ross Kiester grew up in southern California not far from Camp Pendleton in the days when it was wonderful to be interested in herpetology. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his B.A. He completed his Ph.D. in Biology at Harvard University and was also a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He then taught at the University of Chicago and Tulane University before joining the USDA Forest Service.

Kiester has published on herpetology, biogeography, ecology, evolution, and the philosophy of science. He has also worked on planning issues in the Forest Service, including concepts of ecosystem management and the Tongass National Forest. Currently he is Team Leader of the Global Biological Diversity Team at the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.

Ross Kiester, with Edwards, conducted the analyses of species richness.

David Mouat is on an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement (IPA) assignment from the Desert Research Institute to the US Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, in Corvallis, Oregon. He manages the DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Project "Assessment and Management of Risks to Biodiversity and Habitat" and which included an element to develop methodologies to assess the impacts of potential land use scenarios on the biodiversity and related environmental aspects of military installations and their surrounding regions.

An Associate Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute, Mouat's primary research interests involve relating ecological characteristics, including vegetation composition and distribution, to issues of ecosystem health, land degradation, and environmental toxicity. Actively involved in desertification research, he has developed an integrated environmental assessment model for desertification evaluation. Mouat has been a research scientist at NASA, and has served on the faculties of the University of Arizona and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. in geography with an emphasis in geoecology from Oregon State University, and a B.A. in physical geography from the University of California at Berkeley.

David Mouat has been responsible for interagency aspects of the research program.

Douglas Olson is a principal in the Canadian firm of Olson+Olson Planning and Design. He holds a Doctor of Design degree in Landscape Planning from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a M.L.A. from the University of Manitoba, and a Diploma in Forest Technology. He is a visiting instructor at Harvard University as well an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Environmental Design.

A registered landscape architect, his recent projects include Adaptive Forest Management Planning for the Province of Alberta, the Landscape Plan for Jasper Townsite in Jasper National Park, Athabasca Park (Jasper National Park), and village and resort planning for the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council in British Columbia. His research activities include planning for agroforestry in Kenya and the use of airborne spectrographic imagers in landscape planning.

Among his several roles on the research team, Douglas Olson has been responsible for the spatial analysis of the landscape ecological pattern.

Allan Shearer is a Research Fellow at Harvard University. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and the M.L.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He teaches the history of the American landscape at the Boston Architectural Center.

Prior to this study he worked as a landscape architect and contributed to projects including urban parks and campus master plans. He has received research grants to study fire manangement of prairie ecosystems and narrative methods for describing the landscape.

Allan Shearer was the "executive officer" on the research program and has participated in all aspects of the study. He was also the lead investigator in the Santa Rosa Plateau study with Harvard graduate students Jennifer Brooke, Hope Hasbrouck, Frank Kluber, and Debra Friedman.

Richard E. Toth is Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and Harvard University. Toth previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard. Toth has been active in professional practice for many years in both Canada and the United States. He is a licensed landscape architect in Utah, Idaho, and Massachusetts.

Toth's research activities focus upon landscape analysis. He pioneered several landscape planning approaches which have integrated design development with ecologically driven conservation goals. His current research interests maintain this conceptual integration and have focused on hydrologic and riparian systems.

Richard Toth directed the Oak Grove studies which are the work of graduate students in his studio course.

Graduate Student Authors,
Utah State University Lars Anderson
Christy Calvin
Byron Hukee
Jason Ontjes
Jennifer Pettyjohn
Jill Schroeder
Todd Sherman
Studio Professor: Richard Toth
Contributing Faculty: John Nicholson, David Bell, James MacMahon, Michael Wolfe Teaching Assistant: Jackie Hoffer

Robin Wills plans and implements fire management activities for the California Nature Conservancy. His research focuses on applied fire research in grasslands and coastal sage scrub vegetation types.

Wills received a B.S. in forest biology from the Ohio State University and a M.S. in forest ecology from Humboldt State University, California. He spent six years in fire suppression and management with several federal and state agencies and three years with the USDA Forest Service in research on fire effects in Mediterranean plant communities.

Robin Wills is responsible for the fire models.