Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Graduate Student Wins Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship

Mary Nelson (MLA expected 2008) has been selected to receive a Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Dangermond Fellowship for 2006-2007. Nelson’s proposal “Visualizing Phytoremediation” will deploy her considerable digital imaging abilities in order to explore the spatial, place-making implications of emerging site regeneration techniques for cleansing toxins from the soil. Nelson developed this proposal with the assistance of Professors Julie Bargmann and David Phillips (whose GIS course she took last Fall) and will work on it as series of independent studies and a design research project over the next two years.

The Dangermond Fellowship is named in honor of landscape architect Jack Dangermond, a pioneer in GIS software development.

For more information, please see:

LAF Dangermond Scholarship Information