Ken Tamminga is Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and is on the faculty of the Graduate Ecology Program. Prior to his appointment at Penn State, he was landscape architect / planner practicing with the Toronto-based firm of Hough Stansbury Woodland. Notable projects included Don Valley Brickworks, Don River restoration (“Bringing Back the Don”), and the Rouge Park, a +5,000-acre urban wildlands. He served as interim Department Head in 2000, was two-time Heinz Faculty Fellow with the Center for Water Stewardship, and was Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, devising the strategy for Pittsburgh’s seminal Nine Mile Run project. Ken's urban research focuses on landscape regeneration, riparian urbanism, novel ecosystems, and engaged design with at-risk communities. He has expertise in interdisciplinary action-research, including resilience-building with communities facing climate change and globalization impacts in south Asia and sub-Sahara Africa. Recently, he's been exploring convivial greenstreets in European cities. Ken uses photo-technology to aid with landscape analysis and representation (gigapan, heli-kite, participatory video). Courses that he regularly leads include Planting Methods, Community Design, Landscape Film, and the award-winning Pittsburgh Studio.