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.

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