Lecturer of Landscape Architecture
BLA Louisiana State University
MLA Harvard University
Registered Landscape Architect: Florida, Georgia and Texas

Professor Acomb joined the faculty from private practice in 2000 after having served on the Adjunct Faculty for 5 years. His scholarly interests include site and community sustainability with an emphasis on water conservation through low-impact development design and green roofs. He co-founded The Program for Resource Efficient Communities, a multidisciplinary research group of UF faculty that researches and promotes sustainable practices in land development throughout Florida. His funded work includes the sustainable site design of prototypical single-family residential lots for the St. Johns River Water Management District and the creation of Florida-specific details of LID devices including rain gardens, bioswales and bioretention. He co-designed UF’s Charles R. Perry Construction Yard’s Green Roof.

Professor of Landscape Architecture
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Student and Academic Affairs
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of URP
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies
BLA University of Florida
MLA North Carolina State University

Professor Carr joined the faculty from corporate practice in 1989 and has developed funded work in interpretation of natural systems for land use and resource planning; global landscape planning using GIS; and greenways planning, design and management. Her background is in public and private practice, in this country and in Central America.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
BBA University of Georgia
MLA University of Georgia
Registered Landscape Architect: Florida #558

Professor Grist joined the faculty from private practice in 1983. Professor Grist recently has been involved in a research grant funded by the Ted Turner foundation. The study involves a year long recreational inventory of properties jointly owned by the City, State and National governments. These properties are located in and near the Timucuan Preserve in Duval County. The purpose of this inventory is to provide a foundation for building long term management strategies. The methodology for this inventory was developed by the University of Florida, Department of Landscape Architecture, in conjunction with the University of Florida Geoplan Center and the University of Florida, Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism. Other funded work includes participation in a College of Architecture faculty team to survey State University System properties for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines, a master plan for the American Orchid Society Headquarters, and design and management guidelines for intersecting Florida greenways and State D.O.T. roads. His interests lie in the area of contemporary landscape architecture practice, computer applications in landscape architecture, universal design and subtropical ecosystems.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Interim Chair and Graduate Coordinator
Affiliate faculty, Center for Latin American Studies
BLA University of Florida
MLA Harvard University
Registered Landscape Architect: Florida

Professor Gurucharri joined the faculty from corporate private practice in 1991. Much of her funded work establishes interdisciplinary studio teams for comprehensive problem solving from natural systems to urban landscapes in this country and Central America. Her interests lie in many venues where advocacy and team process accommodate diversity and multiplicity.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
BS in Forest Recreation, Colorado State University
MLA Kansas State University
Registered Landscape Architect: Florida

Professor Linscott joined the faculty from academic practice in 1979 and has developed significant funded work in Visual Resource Management for the US Forest Service. His scholarly interests in landscape management, landscape ecology and computer applications are essential to the changing character of professional practice.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. Candidate, Edinburgh College of Art
MA in Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA
BA Landscape Architecture University of California, Berkeley
Registered Landscape Architect: California

Ms. Mary G. Padua joined the faculty in 2007. She is an educator, licensed landscape architect and urban designer with professional experience in the public and private sectors, domestically and internationally. Her research interests are focused on 1) the design and development of contemporary public open space in modernizing Asian cities and 2) vernacular public space in urban contexts that have been created as a result of human habitation and settlement by Diaspora communities. In addition to traditional text-based research, she is an exhibiting fine art photographer and her work is held in public and private collections.

Professor of Landscape Architecture
BA in Architecture, Louisiana State University
MLA Harvard University
FLA FAAR Prix de Rome
Registered Landscape Architect: New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland and Texas

Professor Schnadelbach joined the faculty from private international practice in 1995 to serve as professor and chairman. His scholarly interests include international practice, large scale urban and environmental design, and public open space.

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
MLA Pennsylvania State University
BSLA Pennsylvania State University
Registered Landscape Architect Western Australia

Kevin is a recent addition to our faculty. He comes to us after serving as a Visiting Professor at Washington State University and completing advanced studies in Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. Drawing on more than a decade of international private practice, Kevin’s research is focused on exploring methods that enable young designers to recognize and comprehend the subtle and often elusive characteristics of place in landscapes outside of their own cultural familiarity. He is also helping to produce Community Landscape Documentaries: narratives that express a community’s deep connections to the land even if it means battling the flies of the Australian Outback or being plunged into the treacherous mountain ravines of the central Indonesian highlands. His knee is nearly fully recovered.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, BLA University of Georgia
MLA Ohio State University
Registered Landscape Architect: Florida

Professor Williams joined the faculty in 1981 with scholarly interests in behavioral issues, history and theory of landscape architecture and historic preservation. Place theory, ethics and critical writing are also interest initiatives.

Director of the Center for Landscape and Conservation Planning, DCP
Research Program Director Department of Landscape Architecture
Research Associate, GeoPlan Center Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Dr. Hoctor’s research interests include the application of landscape ecology and conservation biology to regional planning, greenway and wildlife corridor design, large carnivore ecology and conservation, focal species habitat modeling, and Geographic Information Systems applications in conservation planning. He has served as a co-principal investigator on a variety of regional-scale conservation analysis and planning projects including the Florida Ecological Greenways Network with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Southeastern Ecological Framework, The Nature Conservancy's Florida ecoregional planning process, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's South Florida Multi-Species and Ecosystem Recovery Plan, and the Department of Defense's Sustainable Ranges initiative. His current projects include the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida Critical Lands and Waters Identification Project, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Cooperative Conservation Blueprint, and the Southwest Florida Water Management District Land Use and Management Decision Support System and Conservation Land Acquisition Project Reassessment.