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Contact
Phone: | (860) 486-6069 |
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E-mail: | sohyun.park@uconn.edu |
Address: | W.B. Young (YNG) Building 1376 Storrs Road, Unit 4067 Storrs, CT 06269-4067 |
More: | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sohyun_Park23 |
Sohyun Park, PhD, SITES AP
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Dr. Sohyun Park is an associate professor of the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Connecticut. She serves as Co-Chair of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Resilience Theme Track (2020-2022) after a four-year service as co-chair for the Sustainability Track (2016-2020). She is also a Co-Chair of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Ecology and Restoration Professional Practice Network (2019-2021). She is an affiliate faculty member of the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative at UConn Hartford campus and co-chairs a national multistate research group called NE 1962. Dr. Park is a certified SITES AP (#0000001945) and is devoted to the promotion of ecosystem services in cities and landscapes through her scholarship, education, and professional engagement.
Education
Ph.D. Arizona State University
MLA Seoul National University
B.S. in Biology, Sookmyung Women’s University
Research Interest
Dr. Park’s research interest includes the pattern, function, and services of urban green spaces and their relevance to environmental sustainability and community resilience. Target sites of interest include various spatial scales ranging from a larger urban region and metropolitan area to a neighborhood and urban block. With her research topics on urbanism, landscape, and ecology, she seeks to understand a unifying theme of “landscape” as a holistic socioecological system. Her work has been supported by the U. S. Department of the Interior National Park Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the United Nations Development Programme, Korea Ministry of Environment, and other national, regional, and local organizations.
Graduate Students
Zahra Ali
PhD Student
Research Interests: Bio-cultural heritage, traditional ecological knowledge, land and place-based education, socio-ecological systems
Alumni
Pan Zhang
PhD University of Connecticut, 2024
Research Interests: Urban Morphology, Sustainable Urban Design
Teaching Faculty, Nanjing Forestry University
Michael K. Ross
MLA Texas Tech University 2017
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Science, University of Tennessee
Afsan Sharmin
MLA Texas Tech University 2018
Natural Playground Design
Michael Tsapos
BLA Texas Tech University 2020
Ten Eyck Landscape Architects
Tao Wu
PhD University of Connecticut, 2021
Research Interests: Coastal Resiliency, Climate Change
Teaching Faculty, Nanjing Agricultural University
Kelly Mahoney-Aaron
MLA Texas Tech University 2017
Green Cemetery
Milad Fereshtehnezhad
Ph.D. student, Texas Tech University
Parametric Design, New Urbanism
Connor Jones
BLA Texas Tech University 2020
Landscape Designer at Norris Design