Spring Speakers Highlights

While I hope to post details as we go, here are a few of the spring lectures:

* Jason Grabosky, Associate Professor of Ecology,
Evolution and Natural Resources here at Rutgers, will
present some of his research which applies high
technology and considerable horsepower to understand
how trees respond to extreme storm conditions.

* Architect Adam Yarinski will share some of the work
of his firm Architectural Research Office (ARO), which
includes the top prize from the "New York, 2106"
Competition sponsored by The History Channel, IBM,
and Infinity to envision the future of Manhattan.
Web site: www.aro.net

* The first Steve Strom Memorial Lecture will be given by
Kenneth Helphand, FASLA, Professor of Landscape
Architecture at the University of Oregon and author of the
recently published Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in
Wartime.
Web site: kennethhelphand.com

* This year's Margaret O. Cekada Memorial Lecture will
be given by Michael van Valkenburgh, FASLA, principal
of Michael van Valkenburgh Associates and Charles Eliot
Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Web site: www.mvvainc.com