Cynthia Ahern is a naturalist who focuses on interrelationships between plants and animals in natural and manipulated environments. She creates landscapes featuring native plants with high nutritional value for pollinators and other wildlife. Her…
Vincent Aloyo is an Eastern Apiculture Society-certified Master Beekeeper and Principal at Aloyo Apiculture and Education, which focuses on all aspects of apiculture, such as honey production, queen rearing and nuc production, as well as education…
Joni Baumgarten is a soil and plant ecologist who studies the interaction of soil and plant communities and the way that soil communities facilitate plant diversity.
Rutgers University, Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution; New Brunswick, NJ…
Associate Professor and Program Head of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture
Kate Benisek is a landscape architect, civic ecologist and urban horticulturist.
Kate is an environmental educator who teaches undergraduate courses offered as part of the General Education program, undergraduate design studio courses and the…
Lisa Blum has over 35 years’ of experience teaching horticulture at both Saul High School of Agricultural Science and at Temple University. Her areas of expertise include plant pathology and entomology, stress physiology, arboriculture and urban…
Josh Caplan is an environmental biologist who studies plant and soil dynamics in human-modified settings.
With most of his work, he seeks to understand how plants and soils respond to environmental extremes (for example, in salinity, soil…
Michael Coll has managed landscapes in southeastern Pennsylvania for the past 12 years. His focus is the restoration of native ecosystems to facilitate biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. Currently Michael lives on and manages Hildacy Preserve…
Tony Croasdale has made fostering ecological literacy his life's work. He is the director of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center and the co-host of the Urban Wildlife Podcast.
BS Hort, Tyler School of…
Associate Professor and Chair of Architecture and Environmental Design
Sasha Eisenman is a botanist and horticulturist with a diverse portfolio of research projects.
Currently, his primary area of research is on the survival, health and ecophysiological responses of plants in green infrastructure systems (tree…
Billy Fleming is an interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice and the built environment and founding co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think-tank focused on climate and political economy.
His research…
Mark Gallagher is the Vice President of Princeton Hydro, a water resources-oriented consulting firm. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Moravian College and Master of Science degree in Plant Ecology from Rutgers University. He has…
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Nathan Heavers is an ecological designer with a background in horticulture and visual arts.
He researches the diverse ways that humans manage, cultivate, and design forests. Currently, Nathan is working on an urban forestry management plan for…
Rob Kuper teaches undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture design studio and engineering courses.
Between 2012 and 2020, he co-directed design-build studio course projects that received almost 40 awards. Recently, Rob has taught the…
Baldev Lamba has more than three decades of experience working as an Architect and Landscape Architect in India, the Middle East and the United States.
Lamba’s award-winning projects include the First Ladies Water Garden on the National…
Michael LoFurno joined the Tyler faculty in 2007 and has taught a number of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The majority of his teaching experience has been in the third-year design and construction aspects of the annual…
Michael Olszewski is an expert in horticultural substrates and seed germination.
He has practiced as both a plant biologist and scientist before joining Temple’s faculty.
His extensive research has generated several publications,…
Kathy Salisbury enjoys the wonder of hands-on horticulture and sharing the experience with others. As director of the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University, she creates connections between people and plants, building an understanding that access to…
Peg Schofield is an educator and registered horticultural therapist in the Philadelphia region. She presents workshops and horticultural therapy sessions, working with individuals dealing with PTSD, stress-related illnesses and those coping with…
Nathan Shampine is the natural lands manager of the Mt. Cuba Center—a 530-acre botanical garden in Delaware’s Appalachian Piedmont that is critical to preserving the integrity of the remaining natural habitats of this physiographic region in…
Erin Smith works in the land stewardship department for the region’s leading land conservation organization, Natural Lands. She is able to bring her hands-on experience in environmental restoration and natural resource management practices to the…
Adjunct Faculty and Manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex
As manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple University Ambler, Benjamin Snyder oversees the use and care of various educational horticulture features, including a tropical greenhouse collection, organic food production…
/*-->*/ Owner of Clean Waters Consulting, LLC and founder of Princeton Hydro, LLC, Stephen J. Souza has over 35 years of project experience managing and restoring aquatic ecosystems and implementing green infrastructure stormwater…
Eric Tamulonis is a landscape architect in private practice as founder of PARRICUSdesign and former partner at WRT and principal at OLIN. In 40 years of practice, his work has focused on public open space and academic campus planning and design…
Judy Venonsky passionately pursues the intersection of ecology, art and science. She is a practicing Landscape Architect and Associate at OLIN where she spearheads the Eco Lab research team, infusing design excellence with emerging knowledge of…
/*-->*/ Bess Wellborn Yates is particularly interested in sites with complex histories and their intersection with community-based design initiatives and urban ecological restoration. She teaches landscape design studios, courses…
