The ASLA Ecology & Restoration PPN Leadership Team Member Suitability Survey

The Ecology & Restoration PPN leadership team has been working to determine the backgrounds, interests, and ecology/restoration-related needs of its members. Participating in the following survey can help us guide our efforts to best suit the needs of PPN members, and also connect us to anyone interested in promoting specific efforts.

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* 1. How would you best describe your role in ecology and restoration design? (check all that apply?)

I am a landscape architect/designer also trained as an ecologist or restoration practitioner

I am a landscape architect/designer interested in working closely with ecologists and restoration practitioners but do not have the expertise myself.

I’m a landscape architect/designer interested in promoting ecology and restoration best practices through traditional landscape architectural work (residential design, urban design, etc.)

I’m a student of landscape architecture

I’m a professional in another field

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Are you directly involved in ecology and restoration design?

Yes

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* 3. How long have you been directly involved in ecology and restoration design? (If you answered 'no' to Q2, proceed to Q4).

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* 4. How much of your current practice involves restoration design?

0-10%

11-25%

26-50%

51-75%

76-100%

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* 5. Which of these best describes your employment?

Landscape architecture/design firm

Multidisciplinary engineering firm

Multidisciplinary architecture firm

Local agency

State agency

Federal agency

NGO

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Which of these topics do you think is the most important for landscape professionals to have a baseline knowledge of (Choose up to 5)

Climate projections and planting/design implications

Native plant communities and native plant design

Planning for biodiversity and how landscape architectural work impacts biodiversity

Bioengineering/soil bioengineering practices.

Soil science and geology, working with native and imported soils, soil properties and biotic communities

Public access and use of restoration sites

Trophic systems (food web linkages)

Pre-construction assessment, how to incorporate findings into design

Post-construction monitoring, how monitoring can inform design

Novel ecosystems & urban ecology

Working at the intersection of multiple fields and professions (landscape architecture, engineering, ecology, hydrology, etc.) and how to navigate needs of a project

Habitat typologies & natural/native plant & animal communities

How to strengthen impaired hydrology

Mitigating human impacts on wildlife (light pollution, noise pollution, etc.)

Other (please specify)

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* 7. What would most help you include ecological/restoration design best practices in your work?

Shared online library of documents, case studies, and links that are tagged and searchable

A course or series of webinars covering basic/introductory topics

Downloadable poster(s) or other handouts

A series of Field articles that act as an introduction to important topics

A discussion series on grants that apply to restoration and how to apply for them

A discussion series on when and how to include professional ecologists and restoration practitioners into landscape architecture projects

Include more panelists and speakers with a strong ecology or restoration background to ASLA functions and events (i.e. the Annual Meeting)

Activism pushing towards landscape architects playing a key role in civil and private projects where ecological function is at stake

Access to drafted templates for elected representative correspondence to push for LA inclusion in ecology/restoration project types

Facilitation of research collaborations between professionals in ecology/restoration fields with landscape architects

Other (please specify)

None of the above

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* 8. If you are interested in contributing your knowledge / expertise to the ASLA Ecology & Restoration PPN Leadership Team please provide your contact information below.

Name

Email Address