Selected Workshops & Lectures
Carbon Accounting and Life Cycle Assessment
“Leadership Summit for Wood, Forests, and Carbon,” Co-Convener and Working Group Lead, An event co-convened by WWF, Architecture 2030, Washington Environmental Council, Carbon Leadership Forum, and Ecotrust. April 2021.
“OpenData Framework for embodied carbon data in design,” Presenter, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design Conference, ACLCA, April 1st, 2021.
“Urgent Action for Climate Justice”, Co-Convener and Presenter, US Architects Declare National Town Hall. October 15, 2020.
“Embodied Carbon Series: Practical Design Decisions for Reducing Carbon Emissions,” Presenter, AIA New York COTE / Embodied Carbon Network, The Architecture League of New York, February 2020
“CarbonPositive Design and Policy Tools,” and “Advancing CarbonPositive Policy in Practice,” Presenter, CarbonPositive ’19. Architecture 2030 & AIA Large Firm Roundtable, Chicago, September 2019
“Embodied Carbon and LCA in Practice,” Presenter, Embodied Carbon in Architecture Symposium. MIT & Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA. June 2019
“Carbon Uncertainty: are our models too tame to envision a radical future?” Presenter, AIA ’18 National Conference, New York, NY. June 2018
“Energy is not an Environmental Impact: Getting Carbon Right” Presenter, Embodied Energy and Design Symposium. Columbia University GSAPP, New York, NY. April 2016
“Calculating the Life Cycle Impacts of Buildings” Workshop leader and panelist, BuildingEnergy 2016. Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, March 2016
“Every Environmental Impact is the Result of a Design Decision” Presenter, AIA Taliesin Colloquium, AIA Council on the Environment (COTE) and Historic Resources Committee (HRC). Taliesin West, Scottsdale AZ November 2015
“Strengthening Sustainability Action Plans: Expanding the Scope of Carbon Assessments,” Presenter, Society of Campus and University Planners (SCUP) Annual, International Conference. Chicago, July 2015.
“Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment: Lessons from Practice,” Presenter, BuildWell Conference, Sausalito CA, February 2014.
“MH07: Whole Building LCA Training,” Workshop Leader and Presenter, GreenBuild Materials and Health Summit, Philadelphia, PA. November 2013.
“Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Building Materials During Design: A BIM-based methodology,” Presenter, Carbon Leadership Forum Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. September 2013.
Urban Ecology & Interdisciplinary Research
“Uncertain Futures: Using Scenarios to Untangle Ecological Systems” Presenter, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) National Conference, San Diego, March 2019
“Designing the 21st Century Ger: Prototype Workshop” Presenter and workshop leader, UNICEF Mongolia: D21G Workshop. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. January 2019
“Integrating Research in Architectural Practice: New Models” Yale Architecture, Professional Practice Case Studies Series, New Haven, April 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014
“Sensing the City: Technology, Resolution and the Application of Site-Specific Data” Presenter, ASLA National Conference, San Diego, CA. October 2018
Designing the 21st Century Ger: Building Science, Ger Design, and Data Collection Workshop, Presenter and workshop leader, UNICEF Mongolia: D21G Workshop. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. March 2018
“Urban Ecology as Model and Method: Collaboration and Multidisciplinary Work.” Co-Presenter, with Nicholas Pevzner, ACSA National Conference, Denver Colorado. March 2018
“Design | Build | Research: New Firm Models for Performative Landscapes” Presenter, ASLA National Conference, Los Angeles. October 2017
“Deep Collaboration: Ecology, Research, Design” Presenter, Land8x8 Lightning Talks, Washington DC, October 2017
“Green Roof Ecosystems: Connecting Research, Design, and Performance” Presenter, ASLA National Conference, Philadelphia, PA. September 2016
“Socio-Spatial Scenario Planning for Radical Landscapes Transformation” Workshop co-leader with Nicholas Pevzner, DredgeFest California. UC Berkeley, June 2016
“Use and Abuse of Ecological Concepts in Landscape Architecture” Co-Presenter, with Nicholas Pevzner, CELA National Conference. Salt Lake City. March 2016