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Weekly Visitors
Since its inception in 1972, Conway has
invited professionals from many related fields to speak with students.
Through these guest speakers, students learn of possible career paths
and of different approaches to land planning and design. The guests also
supplement core instruction in natural sciences, technical skills, legal
regulations, graphic and verbal expression, and professional ethics.
In addition to the regular lectures, which are generally set aside for
guest speakers, students meet with professionals in their offices and in
the field, at sites both natural and designed. Beginning with the 9-day
fall orientation trip in September when students meet with landscape
architects, regional planners and cultural historians on a variety of
sites, guest speakers are an essential component of the school’s
curriculum.
Guests speak of bioengineering, planning and zoning laws, native plant
propagation, trail construction, forestry practices, green roofs, wildlife
management, permaculture, open space protection, town character, landscape
architecture history, natural resource assessment, land trusts, and
photovoltaics. Each year there are over 50 guest speakers, including 12
critics for the three formal presentations of student work.
RECENT TOPICS AND THEIR PRESENTERS
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Community engagement and placed-based education,
Christina Marts (US National Park Service, Woodstock, VT)
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Conservation land acquisition, Terry Blunt (Mass.
Department of Conservation & Recreation, Northampton, MA)
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Conservation Planning, Jennifer Soper (Mass.
Division of Conservation Services, Boston, MA)
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Conservation planning, Wesley Ward (Trustees of
Reservation, Leominster, MA)
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Design with native plants, Larry Weaner (Larry
Weaner Landscape Design Associates, Glenside, PA)
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Endangered species, Alfred Schuyler (Academy of
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA)
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Forest ecology, Henry Art (Williams College Biology
Department, Williamstown, MA)
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Geology, Richard Little (Retired, Greenfield
Community College, Greenfield, MA)
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Global positioning systems, Donald Cooke (Tele Atlas
North America, Lyme, NH)
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Graphic design and desktop publishing, Irene
Stapleford (University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME)
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Green roofs, Andy Harris (Weston Solutions,
Glastonbury, CT)
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Human ecology and conservation design, Daniel S.
Smith (Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ)
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Land use law, Joel Russell (Planning consultant,
Northampton, MA)
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Landscape conservation, Glenn Eugster (US National
Park Service, Washington, DC)
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Landscape design and planning, Donald L. Walker, Jr.
(retired, Conway School of Landscape Design, Conway, MA)
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Landscape design and planning, Walter Cudnohufsky
(Walter Cudnohufsky Associates, Ashfield, MA)
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Landscape design and planning, Harry Dodson (Dodson
Associates, Ashfi eld, MA)
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Landscape design and planning, Jack Ahern (Dept. of
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Mass. at
Amherst)
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Native plants and their propagation, Bill Cullina
(New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA)
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Nature writing and its influence, Jill Ker Conway
(Conway, MA)
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Permaculture, Dave Jacke (Dynamics Ecological Design
Associates, Keene, NH) and Jono Nieger (Leverett, MA)
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Public meetings, Jeanne Armstrong (LandUse
Incorporated, Hadley, MA)
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Rare plants and their conservation, Elizabeth
Farnsworth (New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA)
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Reading the forested landscape, Tom Wessels (Antioch
New England Graduate School, Keene, NH)
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Schoolyard design, Ruth Parnall and Virginia
Sullivan (Learning by the Yard, Conway, MA)
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Sustainable hydrology, Wendi Goldsmith
(Bioengineering Group, Salem, MA)
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Trail design and construction, Peter Jensen (Peter
S. Jensen & Associates, LLC in Great Barrington, MA)
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Water resources and land development, Mark Nelson
(Arlington, MA)
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Wells and septic systems, David Vreeland (Spectrum
Design, Greenfi eld, MA)
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Wildlife refuge planning, Beth Goettel (US Fish and
Wildlife Service Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge, Turners
Falls, MA)
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