Maren King - Maren is the Assistant Director of the SUNY ESF Center for Community Design Research, through which she facilitates community design and planning related service learning, outreach, and research projects for the Department of Landscape Architecture.  She has extensive practice experience in private landscape architecture and planning firms, including 10 years with Hanna/Olin, Ltd., Philadelphia. Maren King has been a registered landscape architect in New York since 1981 and is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She received a Master of Science in Landscape Architecture in May 2002 and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1978, both from SUNY ESF.

Contact: Maren King, Assistant Director, SUNY-ESF, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.4721
E-mail: ccdr@esf.edu

Kate Auwaerter - Kate is the project staff associate at the Center for Community Design Research (CCDR). She develops new programs and partnerships that expand the Center's capacity to provide meaningful community outreach to neighborhoods and communities across Central New York and the state. She comes to CCDR with 10 years of experience working as a community planner, specializing in downtown and community revitalization. Kate has a Master of Arts in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University.

Contact: Kate Auwaerter, SUNY ESF Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.4893.
E-mail: keauwaerter@esf.edu

Cheryl Doble, Director- Cheryl is an Associate Professor with the Department of Landscape Architecture, SUNY-ESF at Syracuse, New York. Cheryl holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MLA in Landscape Architecture from SUNY. Cheryl’s professional specialties are in town planning, site and community design, public participation, and design theory and process. Cheryl has practiced as both landscape architect and planning consultant to many rural communities, including extensive work with the Tug Hill Commission with whom she co-authored the Tug Hill Land Use Guide.

Contact: Cheryl Doble, Assistant Professor, SUNY-ESF, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.6553
E-mail: csdoble@syr.edu

Students

Katy Johnson - Katy is a member of the Class of 2009 in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program at SUNY ESF. She came on to the CCDR in the summer of 2006 as a work-study and will continue to help out and gain valuable experience during the school year. Katy assists with general office tasks as well as with creative projects entailing hand and computer graphics skills. Katy comes from the small town of Stockbridge, NY and hopes to spend her semester abroad in New Zealand.

Affiliated Faculty - CCDR works closely with various graduate and undergraduate studio faculty. 

Richard Hawks - Richard is the Chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture, State University of New York, SUNY-ESF at Syracuse, New York. Richard received his BLA from SUNY-ESF and his MLA from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Richard was a leader of the National Trust’s first rural conservation short course in 1982 and has contributed to numerous environmental land planning projects, including the Trust’s pilot rural conservation effort, the Cazenovia Land Use Study. Richard is also Co-Director of the National Your Town Center.

Contact: Richard Hawks, Professor and Chair SUNY-ESF, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.6544
E-mail: rshawks@esf.edu

Preston Gilbert – Preston is the Assistant Director of the SUNY Center for Brownfield Studies, a consortium of all 64 campuses in the SUNY system focused on Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment.  He assists the CCDR with project development and funding.  He has thirty years of experience in project development and federal funding.  During his career he has facilitated and packaged approximately $300 million dollars of federal funding in over 100 communities in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.  Prior to joining SUNY ESF Preston served in numerous professional positions, as a municipal official, consultant, executive director of a regional commission, and lobbyist for a major University.

Contact:  Preston Gilbert, SUNY Center for Brownfield Studies, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.4722.  
E-mail: psgilber@syr.edu  

Robin Hoffman - Associate Professor, SUNY-ESF, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.6546
E-mail: rhoffman@esf.edu 

Don Ferlow - Associate Professor, SUNY-ESF, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.
E-mail: dferlow@esf.edu

Emanuel Carter - Associate Professor, SUNY-ESF, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 315.470.6665
e-mail: ejcarter@esf.edu

 

                            The Center for Community Design Research
                            Department of Landscape Architecture
                            SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
                            One Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY 13210 - 4721
                           ccdr@esf.edu

 

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