Joan Iverson Nassauer is Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Her work focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and ecology has offered strategies for basing ecological design on strong science and interdisciplinary collaboration, and these strategies have been applied internationally. Her award-winning research investigates public acceptance and the cultural sustainability of environmentally beneficial landscape change. She has worked with colleagues in ecology, civil engineering, forestry, and hydrology to develop and implement ecosystem management plans for rural landscapes, for urban watersheds, and to retrofit 19th century cities and 20th century suburbs to improve their ecological health – particularly through low impact storm water management and brownfield redevelopment.