Cal Poly Experts Directory - The Environment
City & Regional Planning • Landscape Design • Land Use Management • Sustainability • Urban Forestry
City & Regional Planning
Linda Day, Ph.D.
Professor of City and Regional Planning
(805) 756-1315 e-mail: lday@calpoly.edu
Consultant specializing in needs assessment studies for public-sector clients, facility programming and design evaluation.
Contributor and author of reports on juvenile services facilities and maintaining place identity.
Author of articles published in Planning and Design, Environment and Behavior, and Journal of Architecture and Planning Research.
Areas of expertise:
* suburban design
* residential subdivision design
* city design
* downtown redevelopment
* public facility design
* correctional facility design
* post office design
* post-occupancy evaluation of public facilities
* "new urbanism"
* single-family house design
David Dubbink, Ph.D.
Professor of City and Regional Planning
(805) 756-1474/1315 e-mail: ddubbink@calpoly.edu
Recipient, American Planning Association Award for Technological Innovation (1993).
Author of many articles on community noise management.
Consultant to FAA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Transport Canada, and National Environmental Office of Germany.
Member, American Planning Association, American Institute of Certified Planners, and International Association for Impact Assessment.
Former director, California Coastal Commission and California Tahoe Regional Planning Commission.
Areas of expertise:
* airport noise compatibility planning
* growth management
* environmental planning
* city planning
Laura Joines-Novotny, M.Arch.
Associate Professor of Architecture
(805) 756-1480/1316 e-mail: ljoines@calpoly.edu
Licensed architect.
Author of paper on Czech town squares (1996) and a comparative study of town squares (on CD-ROM, in progress).
Author of paper titled "The Influence of a Montessorian Approach in the Design Studio" (1996).
Areas of expertise:
* town squares and plazas
* urban design patterns
* the Czech Republic
* Czech functionalism
* influence of the Montessori approach in architectural education
Sandra Davis Lakeman, M.Arch.
Professor of Architecture
(805) 756-7848/1316 e-mail: slakeman@calpoly.edu
Creator of photography exhibition "Natural Light and the Italian Piazza," supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation; exhibited internationally.
Author of the exhibition catalog for "Natural Light and the Italian Piazza."
Areas of expertise:
* architectural graphics
* plazas/piazzas
* natural light
* Italian urban space
* Medieval town design
* Tuscany and Umbria
Landscape Design
Alice Loh, M.L.Arch.
Professor of Landscape Architecture
(805) 756-2915/1319 e-mail: aloh@calpoly.edu
Author of four landscape architecture course manuals.
Co-author of landscape architecture study and travel guide.
Registered architect and landscape architect.
Recipient, San Luis Obispo Beautification Award (1993) and California Women in Construction Award (1994).
Areas of expertise:
* vernacular architecture and landscape architecture design
* urban square and plaza design
* design methodology--problem identifying and problem solving
* garden design, philosophy, and cultural background (especially Chinese gardens)
* site analysis--natural and cultural factors and visual assessment
* women in a male-dominated profession
* architectural and landscape architectural licensing examinations
* designing housing for the elderly
Land Use Management
Thomas J. Rice, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Soil Science
(805) 756-2420/2261 e-mail: trice@calpoly.edu
Certified professional soil scientist.
Author of Land Use Planning (1994) and Soil Resource Inventory (1995) lab manuals.
Author of Clean Lakes Assistance Program for Lake Nacimiento (1994) and Morro Bay Watershed Monitoring Program (1994) and professional journal articles on soil science and soil geomorphology.
Consultant and expert witness in cases involving land development and subdivisions, soil erosion, personal injury due to landslide, water quality monitoring, and mercury and chromium levels in stream sediments.
Areas of expertise:
* soil resource inventories
* soil classification and mapping
* environmental assessment of soil
* environmental and water quality monitoring
* land-use management
* wetlands characterization
* mineralogical analysis
* agricultural management
Ronald Taskey, Ph.D.
Professor of Soil Science
(805) 756-1160/2261 e-mail: rtaskey@calpoly.edu
Participant, Soil Survey of the High Sierra (summer 1995).
Member, Soil Science Society of America, Society of American Foresters.
President, Soil and Water Conservation Society, California Chapter (1995).
Past president, California Forest Soils Council.
Certified professional in erosion and sediment control, professional soil scientist, and professional soil classifier.
Author of articles on undergraduate education and curriculum, wilderness, old-growth forests, and wildfire.
Areas of expertise:
* soil maps and land use
* wildfire and emergency rehabilitation
* landslides
* soil erosion
* wilderness
* watersheds
James R. Vilkitis, Ph.D.
Professor of Natural Resources Management
(805) 756-1262/2702 e-mail: jvilkiti@calpoly.edu
Director, Cal Poly Coastal Resources Institute.
Consultant.
Author of a habitat management and monitoring plan for endangered species.
Research: constructed wetlands to abate point- and non-point-source pollution.
Named among American Men & Women in Science (1997).
Author of Development in Harmony with Natural Systems, a symposium on oak woodlands.
Areas of expertise:
* environmental impact analysis
* natural resources planning and management
* National Environmental Policy Act and California Environmental Quality Act
* habitat and environmental audits
* environmental and social impact inventories and analysis
* policy planning
* habitat conservation plans
* endangered species and wetlands
* interpretative signage
* environmental ethics
Sustainability
Martin Harms, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor, College of Architecture & Environmental Design
(805) 756-1311 e-mail: mharms@calpoly.edu
Member and award recipient, national, state, and local American Institute of Architects.
National Endowment for the Arts, Project Fellowship Award for "1770, 1870, 1970: Craft, The Machine and Human Transaction in the Technology of Three Philadelphia Buildings."
Vice president, Texas Society of Architects, 1996-97.
Originator, first five-year Master of Architecture professional architecture program in the U.S. as dean, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University (1995-96).
Areas of expertise:
* school and university facility design (programming, design and construction)
* urban design
* "new urbanism"
* sustainability factors
* architectural education
* residential design / architect-designed single- and multi-family housing
Urban Forestry
John H. Harris, Ph.D.
Professor of Natural Resources Management
(805) 756-2426/2702 e-mail: jhharris@calpoly.edu
Member, National Recreation and Park Association, California Park and Recreation Society, Society of American Foresters.
Federal and state expert witness for recreation resource liability cases.
Areas of expertise:
* recreation behavior
* recreation resource management
* site liability
* employee management
* communication techniques
* urban forestry