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Other Faculty, Workshop Leaders and Visitors

B. Kim Erslev
Adjunct Professor of Landscape Design
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  • MLA University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1996)
  • MArch, University of Pennsylvania (1987)
  • BA,Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (1979)

Kim ErslevKim is both a practicing architect and a landscape architect with her own firm, Salmon Falls Ecological Design, based in Shelburne Falls. She has been a frequent visiting critic at the school and joined the faculty in 2006. She has more than fifteen years of experience with sustainable landscape and architectural design.

Kim’s professional work is dedicated to creating designs that connect humans with the inherent power and beauty of natural systems. She has worked with several design firms on a diversity of projects including; the design of the Micmac Heritage Center in Northern Canada, the Jerusalem Science Museum, the Greenfield / NESEA Energy Park, the Eric Carle Museum, and the design of a new town destroyed by a volcanic mud-slide in Colombia, South America. Her current design practice focuses on the design of super-insulated passive solar homes, ecological landscapes, and co-housing communities.

Kim is a talented designer with strong skills in conceptualization, drawing, and design communication. She is an enthusiastic teacher who encourages students to work and learn cooperatively. She has taught at Temple University and throughout graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. Kim teaches landscape design at the Conway School on a half-time basis, where her focus is on graphics as well as residential-scale and community design training in the fall and spring terms.

Jono Neiger
Adjunct Professor of Landscape Design
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  • MALD, Conway School of Landscape Design (2003)
  • BS, Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (1989)

Jono NeigerJono is a conservation biologist with 17 years experience in land stewardship, ecological studies, restoration, and conservation commission staffing. He served as Lost Valley Educational Center’s Land Steward and Permaculture Apprenticeship Program Director in Oregon for five years, founded and served as Coordinator of the Lost Creek Watershed Council in Oregon for four years, was Restoration Ecologist with the Nature Conservancy of California for two years, and served as Conservation Commission Agent for the Town of Palmer (Massachusetts) for four years. 

A permaculture teacher and designer since 1996, Jono works to help organizations and individuals further their goals for stewarding their land and for creating productive, regenerative human ecosystems. Currently the principal of Regenerative Design, a permaculture design and consultation firm in Leverett, Massachusetts. Jono also teaches landscape design at the Conway School on a half-time basis, including primary responsibility for the surveying part of the curriculum in the fall term.  

Bill Lattrell
Ecology Instructor

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

Bill is Principal of Valley Environmental Services, Greenfield, MA. As a certified wetlands scientist and professional restoration ecologist, Bill has managed projects involving wildlife habitat, wetland restoration, wetlands mapping, and public education. He joined the 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 site

Darrel Morrison

  • BSLA, Iowa State University, 1959
  • MSLA, University of Wisconsin, 1969

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.

C. Dana Tomlin

  • PhD, M.Phil.,Yale University, Graduate School (Forestry and Environmental Studies) 1983, 1978
  • MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1975
  • BSLA, University of Virginia, School of Architecture, 1973

Dr. Dana Tomlin is a world-renowned expert in geographic information systems (GIS). He is author of Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling, developer of the Map Analysis Package software, and originator of Map Algebra. His current research examines the use of digital cartographic techniques in spatial pattern analysis and land use allocation.

Dana is a member of the landscape architecture faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and also teaches at Yale University. He formerly taught at the Ohio State University School of Natural Resources and at the Harvard Design School. Starting in winter 2007, he will teach an introductory GIS workshop at Conway and serve as an online resource to students.