People

Nancy Rottle

Director & Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture

Nancy Rottle, PLA, FASLA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington where she has served on the faculties of Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Urban Planning and Design. As Director of the Green Futures Research and Design Lab she leads projects addressing urban and regional green infrastructure, including parks and open space, habitat, stormwater, active transport and community design. A licensed landscape architect, Professor Rottle’s many years of professional practice facilitates her bridging of academic research and applied planning and design. Nancy lectures globally and in addition to publishing numerous papers and book chapters, she is the co-author of Basics Landscape Architecture: Ecological Design (AVA Press 2011), co-editor of a special issue of Places Journal on Climate Change and Place (2007), vice-chair of the 2014 edited Water Environment Federation volume, Green Infrastructure Implementation, and author of The Art of Sustainable Stormwater (Fairchild, 2023).[/two_third_last]

Daquan Proctor

Lab Manager

Daquan Proctor is a Masters of Architecture and Masters of Landscape Architecture dual degree student at the University of Washington. He has a background in architectural design, public space activation, community engagement and working on small design research teams. His research interests investigate how decisions made about the built environment impact urban ecology and the people who reside there, with a focus on environmental justice and equity. As a Green Futures Lab manager Daquan stewards two kinetic biodiversity green walls outside the lab office at Gould Hall. He also worked on the ReImagining Neighborhoods + Streets project with non-profit Environmental Works, leading the City of Edmonds in community design sessions imagining new ways to activate underutilized right-of-way public space.

Meaghan O’Connor Lenth

Lab Manager

Meaghan O’Connor Lenth is a Masters of Landscape Architecture student at the University of Washington. She has an academic background in biology and has professional experience in salmon habitat restoration and stormwater management. Her research interests include urban ecological design and green stormwater infrastructure. As a Green Futures Lab manager, she oversees the Sweetgrass Living Shoreline and Sweetgrass Marine Wetlands projects.

Mason Bowles

P.W.S., Technical Lead – Duwamish Floating Wetlands Project and Sweetgrass Restoration Project

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