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Adjuncts

Bill Lattrell
Adjunct Instructor/Ecology

Bill LattrellAs a certified wetlands scientist and professional restoration ecologist, Bill has managed projects involving wildlife habitat, wetland restoration, wetlands mapping, and public education. He joined Conway as adjunct faculty in 1993, teaching classes in wetlands protection and mitigation, wildlife habitat, and leading field trips to a variety of ecosystems, including bogs, beaver ponds, old growth forests, vernal pools, and successional meadows. Bill’s broad applied knowledge of natural resource issues helps students evaluate environmental assets and anticipate potential repercussions on residential and community sites.

  • MS, Environmental Resource Management, Antioch/New England Graduate School (1989)
  • BS, Environmental Sociology, University of Massachusetts (1975)
  • Principal, Valley Environmental Services, Greenfield, MA

Master Teachers

David Jacke
Master Teacher/Permaculture

David JackeDave Jacke has been a student of ecology and design since the 1970s. The primary author of Edible Forest Gardens (2005), he has run his own ecological design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984. Dave is an engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, and a meticulous designer. He has consulted on, designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in many parts of the United States, as well as overseas. A cofounder of Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, he homesteaded there for a number of years. He also cofounded the newly-formed Apios Institute, which researches and propagates “regenerative perennial agriculture” in temperate climates.

  • MALD, Conway School of Landscape Design (1984)
  • BA, Magna Cum Laude, Environmental Studies, Simon’s Rock College (1980)
Elizabeth Farnsworth
Master Teacher/Biology

Elizabeth FarnsworthElizabeth Farnsworth is a biologist and scientific illustrator. She is co-author of the updated edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America (Houghton Mifflin). She is illustrating the forthcoming Flora of New England for the New England Wild Flower Society, as well as books on fern ecology and the natural communities of New Hampshire. Her current scientific research addresses the ecology of rare plants.

  • PhD, Harvard University (1997)
  • MS, University of Vermont (1991)
  • BA, Environmental Studies, Brown University (1984)
Joel Russell
Master Teacher/Conservation Law

Joel RussellJoel Russell has been at the forefront of smart growth, land conservation, and new urbanism, with 30 years experience as a planning consultant and land use attorney. Drafting land use ordinances that emphasize quality design, the creation of a sense of place, traditional neighborhood development, and the preservation of open space and environmental resources, he is a national authority on how to contain suburban sprawl and a principal co-author of Codifying New Urbanism (American Planning Association, 2004). Joel has been active in the land conservation movement since 1982, helping preserve over 25,000 acres of land working with landowners and twelve land trusts. He co-founded and served as Executive Director of the Dutchess Land Conservancy in New York, and is currently a Fellow of the Glynwood Center in Cold Spring, New York, developing an advanced training program in land use regulation that addresses climate change and sustainable development. He has published numerous articles and spoken at conferences throughout the United States. Joel served on the Conway School Board of Trustees from 1992 through 2001, as Chair from 1997 through 2001, and is now a Conway Adviser.

  • JD, Boston University Law School (1978)
  • MUA, (Master of Urban Affairs), Boston University (1974)
  • BA, Harvard University (1972)
Darrel Morrison
Master Teacher / Design

Darrel Morrison is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Professor and Dean Emeritus at the University of Georgia. Currently a resident of New York City, he has taught at Conway since 1992. Darrel has been a pioneer in landscape restoration and ecological design and has received awards for his work at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere.

He is a gifted teacher who has received national teaching awards from the council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the American Horticultural Society. Since 1997 Darrel has been a design and ecological consultant to the Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre sculpture park in New York State.

  • BSLA, Iowa State University, 1959
  • MSLA, University of Wisconsin, 1969
Erik van Lennep '83
Master Teacher (Sustainable Design)

Erik Van LennepErik van Lennep is a sustainability consultant, green design practitioner, entrepreneur and trainer in Dublin, Ireland. He has worked to set up innovative community projects and NGOs in Ireland and the USA for more than 30 years.

Erik is the founder of international design collaborative TEPUI, created to research, promote, and apply living technologies as concrete response to climate change.

He is a co-founder of Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre in Dublin, and co-developer of a post-graduate Irish national course on Sustainable Design Innovation. Prior to moving to Ireland he was co-founder of the international Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco, and founding director of the Arctic to Amazonia Alliance, a global human rights initiative for tribal peoples which he directed for 12 years, and has been credited with bringing Indigenous Peoples' issues onto the agenda of environmental NGOs.

Erik has consulted and worked closely with a number of international organizations over the years, including Conservation International, Rainforest Alliance, Experiment in International Living, MacArthur Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, the World Uranium Hearings, Indigenous Environmental Network and the International Rivers Network.

  • MALD, Conway School of Landscape Design, (1983)