Sohyun Park, PhD, SITES AP

Associate 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 Program Director of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)'s Nature Conservation and Biodiversity Working Programme, the Regional Director and elected board member of the Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture (CELA), the Group Lead of Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Hub, and Co-Chair for a USDA NIFA National Multistate Hatch Research Group called NE 1962. Dr. Park also served as a Chair of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Ecology and Restoration Professional Practice Network (2019-2021) and Track Chair of the CELA's conference tracks including Sustainability Track (2016-2020), Resilience Theme Track (2020), and Climate Action Track (2021-2022). Dr. Park is Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Case Study Investigation (CSI) Research Fellow, and a certified SITES AP (#0000001945). She is devoted to the promotion of ecosystem services in cities and landscapes through her scholarship, education, community outreach, 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), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Department of Correction (USDOC), the United Nations Development Programme, Korea Ministry of Environment, and other national, regional, and local organizations.

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students

Zahra Ali
PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Bio-cultural heritage landscapes, traditional and local ecological knowledge, land and place-based education, socio-ecological systems

Hui Li
PhD Student
Research Interests:

Undergraduate Students

Alumni