Landscape Architecture and Management

Landscape architecture and management encompasses landscape architecture and site planning; landscape construction and management, turf and golf course design and management; landscape preservation and recreation; landscape ecology and regional planning; urban forestry; community landscapes and environmental health; and global communities and landscape change.

Faculty

• Mark Carroll
  Pesticide and Nutrient Fate in Turfgrass, Turfgrass Physiology
• Shenglin Chang
  Cultural Landscape and Transcultural Home Identity, International Landscape Education, Sustainable Community Planning and Development, Multicultural Urban Design, Spirituality in Integral Placemaking
• Peter Dernoeden
  Turfgrass pathology, weed science and general turfgrass management
• Jack Sullivan
  Landscape Architecture

Selected Research Projects:

• City Lifestyle as a Catalyst for Suburban Change: An Investigation Into How Immigrants' Prior Urban Experiences Can Inform the Future Planning and Gro
  Research Faculty: Shenglin Chang
  
• Comparison of Turf Chemical Runoff from Small and Large Size plots
  Research Faculty: Mark Carroll
• Golf Turf Agrochemical Runoff: Scale Effects on Computer Model Scenario Calibration.
  Research Faculty: Mark Carroll
• Integrated Turfgrass Management for Environmental Enhancement and Resource Conservation.
  Research Faculty: Mark Carroll
• A Study of the Environmental and Social Aspects of the Taiwanese and US Companies in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park
  Research Faculty: Shenglin Chang
• The Global Silicon Landscape: The Promise Of The Trans-Pacific Home
  Research Faculty: Shenglin Chang
• Landscape Architecture Image Resource
  Research Faculty: Jack Sullivan
  Homepage: http://www.lair.umd.edu
• North Gate Park at the Paint Branch, College Park, MD
  Research Faculty: Jack Sullivan
• The World Wide Web as Instructional Delivery System for Landscape Architecture Education.
  Research Faculty: Jack Sullivan
• Turfgrass Pathology
  Research Faculty: Peter Dernoeden
  The objectives of turfgrass pathology research program include: describing the etiology of new or imperfectly understood diseases; identify cultural and chemical approaches to managing turf diseases, and improving the performance of fungicides. Titles of recent projects include: "Dollar spot and gray leaf spot severity as influenced by irrigation practice and disease management with plant protection materials;" "Biology of Ophiosphaerella agrostis, epidemiology of dead spot and a molecular description of the pathogen;" "Influence of rain and mowing on fungicide performance when targeting dollar spot in fairway bentgrass;" and "Relationships between cultural and chemical practices on the incidence of yellow spot in bentgrass."
• Turfgrass Weed Science
  Research Faculty: Peter Dernoeden
  The objectives of this program are to study the biology of weed seedling emergence in turfgrass sites and to evaluate herbicides for weed control. Titles of recent projects include: "Seasonal emergence patterns of Poa annua in Maryland;" "Creeping bentgrass tolerance and annual bluegrass control with bispyribac-sodium tank mixed with iron and nitrogen;" "Bentgrass seedling tolerance to herbicides and pacloburtazol;" "Selective control of creeping bentgrass in tall fescue;" and "Evaluation of new herbicides that target yellow nutsedge."
• Turfgrass Physiology
  Research Faculty: Peter Dernoeden
  There are two major projects in this area as follows: "Rooting and carbohydrate metabolism in creeping bentgrass putting green turf in response to summer irrigation and aerification" and "Management of the summer bentgrass decline complex." The former project evaluates physiological process and rooting in bentgrass grown in a sand-based rootzone in response to two irrigation management and aerification programs. It employees the minirhizitron imaging technique, which allows for the in situ quantification of rooting parameters without destruction of the plants. The later project evaluates the influence of plant protection chemicals on bentgrass performance as influenced by photosynethesis, respiration, and canopy temperature during periods of environmental stress.
• Integrated Turfgrass Management For Environmental Enhancement and Resource Conservation.
  Research Faculty: Peter Dernoeden