Adjunct Faculty & Lecturers

David Bloniarz
Lecturer in Forestry and Wildlife Management and adjunct Lecturer of Landscape Architecture. B.S., University of Massachusetts, 1987; MLA, University of Massachusetts, 1991; Ph.D. in Urban Forestry, University of Massachusetts, 1996. Project Coordinator of the USDA Forest Service's Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry, which provides technical assistance and technology transfer to the New England and New York states. Current work includes the development of urban forest resource inventories utilizing community volunteers, urban forest ecosystems and street tree management strategies. He was the founder of a landscape design-build firm that concentrated primarily on residential and commercial products for over thirteen years, in Western Massachusetts. He is a Massachusetts and International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist, a member of the City of Springfield Conservation Commission, and Clerk of the Massachusetts Community Forestry Council.

Timothy Brennan
Adjunct Lecturer of Regional Planning. B.A. in Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970; M.R.P. University of Massachusetts, 1973; Intermediate and Advanced Diplomas in Urban Transportation Planning from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Since 1980, has served as the Executive Director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC), a public planning agency with 40 staff, an annual budget in excess of $1.5 million and multifaceted planning programs which cover land use, transportation, economic development, environmental protection and historic preservation, among others. Currently involved in start up efforts centering on the Institute for the Regional Planning Community, a new nationwide initiative by the National Association of Regional Councils.

Nancy Watkins Denig, ASLA
Adjunct Lecturer of Landscape Architecture and President of Denig Design Associates, Inc. B.A. in Art, Smith College, 1968 and M.L.A., University of Massachusetts, 1975. Award-winning practice in Germany, the Mid-Atlantic and New England specializing in zoos, parks, campuses and gardens. Teaching experience at the University of Maryland European Division, the George Washington University Landscape Design Program and elsewhere.

Michael Di Pasquale
Adjunct Lecturer of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Director of UMass Extension's Citizen Planner Training Collaborative and Instructor Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. B.S. Architecture, University of Detroit, Master of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, Master of Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Focus areas include Citizen Participation and Community Design, Urban Planning, Transportation, Economic Development.

Harry L. Dodson
Adjunct Lecturer of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. B.A. in History and Literature, Harvard College, 1974; M.L.A., Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1980. Principal, Dodson Associates, Landscape Architects; founder, Franklin Land Trust.

John T. Finn
Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries, Biology and Forestry, and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning. B.S. in Biology, Georgetown University, 1970; Ph.D. in Ecology, University of Georgia, 1977. Primarily interested in producing dynamic models of ecological systems. Current interests include geographic information systems, digital remote sensing, population models (whale, bears) and construction of spatial computer models of landscape change.

Robert Goodman
Adjunct Lecturer of Regional Planning. B.S. in Architecture, MIT, 1960; ABD Urban Planning, MIT, 1962. Author of The Last Entrepreneurs; America's Regional Wars for Jobs and Dollars and After the Planners, in addition to numerous articles on architecture, urban planning and economic development. Also former architectural critic for the Boston Globe. Has been described as "the man who started advocacy planning", and was a Guggenheim and a Stoeffer Fellow and first president of Urban Planning Aid. He is currently researching the implications of legalized gambling as an economic development strategy in the United States, under a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Julie Graham
Professor of Geography and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning. B.A. in English Literature, Smith College, 1968; Ph.D., Clark University, 1984. Teaching interests are industrial development and change and social theory. Current research interests are alternative economic development and retheorizing the economy. Recently published The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) (Blackwell, 1996) under the pen name of J.K. Gibson-Graham.

Jeanne M. Kidwell
Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture. B.S., History, Northeastern University, 1980; M.L.A., University of Massachusetts, 1985. Assistant Director, Office of Community Devlopment, City of Chicopee; borad member of various housing and environmental associations. Interests include urban rivers and greeways, constructed wetlands, economic development, neighborhood reinvestment, and large scale redevelopment projects.

David K. Loomis
Associate Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries and Adjunct Associate Professor of Regional Planning. Ph.D. in Recreation Resource Development, Texas A&M University, 1988. Particular focus on the human dimensions of natural resource management as it relates to outdoor recreation. Primary focus is on members of society who interact with wildlife, fisheries and forestry resources purposes. Recent projects include "Demographics and Angler Diversity: An Integrative Approach to Family Decisions" and "Allocation of Scarce Recreation Resources: Enhancing Support and Understanding for Management Decisions".

Martha H. Lyon
Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture. B.A. in Art History, Colgate University, 1980, M.L.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1993. Studies in British art and architectural history, Mansfield College, Oxford University, England, 1978. Registered landscape architect and certified by the Council of Landscape Architectural Review Boards. Proprietor of Martha Lyon Landscape Architecture, LLC, a Northampton, Massachusetts-based firm specializing in planning, design and preservation historic landscapes.

Robert P. Mitchell
Adjunct Lecturer of Regional Planning. B.A., History, Providence College, 1971; M.R.P., University of Massachusetts, 1973. Planning Director, Town of Amherst; Member AICP; President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association; Past President of the Massachusetts Association of Planning Directors; Region I Commissioner (NY, PA, NJ, New England, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes) of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Interests include growth management, innovative zoning and development tools and techniques and their influence on community character, city planning history and town/gown relations.

Craig L. Moore
Professor of Finance & Operations Management and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning. B.S., West Virginia University, 1966; M.A. and Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1972. Research interests are regional economic development, regional monetary theory and banking and statistical modeling. He frequently works with legislative committees and community organizations on Massachusetts Economic Policy.

Rutherford H. Platt
Professor of Geography and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning. B.A., Yale, 1962; J.D., University of Chicago, 1967; Ph.D., Chicago, 1971; Member, Illinois Bar. Research interests: urban development, environmental policy, floodplain wetland and coastal management. Lead editor of "The Ecological City" (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994) and author, "Land Use and Society: Geography, Law and Public Policy" (Island Press, 1996).

Paul W. Shuldiner
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning. B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1951, 1953; Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1960. Teaches transportation policy and economics. Research in applications of video and machine vision technologies to transportation planning and traffic management. Directs Science, Technology and Society program of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Richard Taupier
Adjunct Assistant Professor B.A. Philosophy, University of Mass. M.S.
Resource Economics, University of Mass. Ph.D. Regional Planning, University of Mass. Associate Director of the Environmental Institute, University of Mass. and Director of the Office of Geographic Information and Analysis. Principal interests include the application of geographic information systems to a wide range of environmental and natural resource planning needs, the economics of sustainable development, and regional developing within newly emerging democracies.

Rodney B. Warnick
Associate Professor of Recreation Resource Management and Adjunct Associate Professor of Regional Planning. B.S. in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Frostburg State University, 1975; M.S. in Recreation Management, University of Montana, 1976; M.R.P. in Regional Planning, Pennsylvania State University, 1982; Ph.D. in Recreation and Parks, Pennsylvania State University, 1983. Instructor of courses in marketing, commercial recreation management and club management. Research interests in recreation marketing, planning and consumer behavior issues in recreation, tourism and sport settings. Provide research assistance to recreation and resort developments and companies, plus direct assistance to such organizations at the PGA and LPGA, tourism regional councils and state recreation management and planning agencies.

Roger Washburn
Adjunct Lecturer of Landscape Architecture and Principal of Roger Washburn Landscape Architecture. B.A. in Environmental Design, University of Washington, 1974; M.L.A., University of Massachusetts, 1980. Instructor at Radcliffe Seminars Graduate Program in Landscape Design, Radcliffe College, Cambridge MA. Award-winning practice private gardens, nonprofit and corporate landscapes.

 Emeriti Faculty

Theodore S. Bacon Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Regional and Town Planning. B.A., History, Amherst; M.C.P., MIT. Extensive national and international experience in all aspects of town planning, management and administration. Formerly the Chairman of the Amherst Town Planning Board and the Lower Pioneer Valley Regional Planning Commission. His present activities include the directorship of the Connecticut River Watershed Council.

Hugh C. Davis
Professor Emeritus of Regional Planning. B.S., Rollins, 1950; M.S., Ph.D., Michigan, 1955, 1960. Has extensive experience with environmental planning and policy at both federal and state levels of government. Director of the Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts. Special interests: outdoor recreation, open space and environmental public policy and rural development.

Nicholas T. Dines, FASLA
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Environmental Design

Meir Gross
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1964; M.R.P., 1972; M.A. in City Planning, 1976; Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, 1979, University of Pennsylvania. Interests include the application of quantitative methods, computer techniques, information technology and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to planning and policy analysis. Additional interests include urban form and infrastructure, spatial analysis and regional economic development. Currently involved in planning projects in Northwest Russia.

Julius Gy. Fabos
Professor of Landscape Planning and recipient of an Honorary Degree from the University of Horticulture, Budapest, Hungary. B.S. in Plant Sciences, Rutgers, 1961; M.L.A., Harvard, 1964; Ph.D. in Resource Planning and Conservation, Michigan, 1973; Fellow, ASLA, 1985; ASLA Medalist, 1997. Principal developer of the METLAND System for landscape assessment and planning; has been awarded numerous research grants. Author and editor of more than 120 articles and research bulletins, as well as five books, the latest of which are: Land Use Planning, published by Chapman and Hall, 1985 and a book size special greenways issue published by Elsevier, in October, 1995.

Gordon S. King
Professor Emeritus of Arborculture and Park Administration. B.S., Michigan State, 1941; M.S., Massachusetts, 1956. Past President, International Society of Arborculture. Major interests are in the use and care of shade and ornamental trees.

John Martin
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architcture and Reigonal Planning Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, 1950, Master’s of Architecture, 1956, Brighton College of Art; Diploma in Landscape Design, University College, London, 1960; M.L.A., Harvard, 1967; Member, royal Institute of British Architects, Member, American Society of Landscape Architects, Affiliate of the American Institute of Architects. Professional Registrations, Architecture (United Kingdom); Landscape Architecture (Massachusetts). An accomplished architect and landscape architect, artist and landscape historian, he lectured and taught courses, seminars, and studios in landscape history and design, architecture and landscape architecture, involving a wide variety of scales and responsibilities. He has written in the areas of water resource planning, historic preservation, adaptive re-use, town revitalization, and urban architectural and landscape design history.

E. Bruce MacDougall
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, Adjunct Professor of Geography, and Director of the Office of Geographic Information and Analysis. B.S., 1961 and M.S., 1962 in Forestry and Ph.D., 1967 in Geography, the University of Toronto, M.A. (honorary), 1972, the University of Pennsylvania, honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Awarded the Gold Medal of the Canadian Institute of Forestry, 1961. Author of many articles and papers on geographical analysis issues and two books, Computer Programming for Spatial Problems, (Edward Arnold, 1976) and Microcomputers in Landscape Architecture, (Elsevier Science Publishing Company, 1983). Current teaching and research interests are primarily in planning methods, applications of computers in planning and design, and the implications of information technology in planning and design..

Harold E. Mosher
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture. B.S., 1942; B.L.A., 1947; M.L.A., Massachusetts, 1957. Teaches courses in plant identification, ecology and physiography and the use of plants in the environmental design. Professional experience includes serving as a consultant to park systems and nursery managers. Interests include the consequences of human activity on fragile landscapes. Has undertaken fieldwork throughout North America and Europe, studying the problems of landscape degradation at alpine levels.

Paul N. Procopio
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture. B.S., 1941; M.S. in Horticulture, Massachusetts, 1954. Taught courses in land form, graphics and design studio. Professional work includes projects at the regional, town and city scales, with emphasis on land-use and community planning. Has served on program evaluation teams, the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board and the Council on Education of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Was elected as a Fellow in the Society, 1983.

Andrew, J.W. Scheffey
Professor Emeritus of Regional Planning. B.S., College, 1951; M.S., 1952; Ph.D., Michigan, 1958. Actively involved in agricultural development. Extensively experienced in resource policy planning and conservation in Massachusetts, as well as in Korea and Mexico. Special interests: resource policy, international development and environmental education.