Joan is currently on leave from the Department and serving as Director of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies and still maintains close ties with the Department. She teaches design in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, along with large scale regional and ecosystem-based planning. Her professional interests focus on issues of sustainable and regenerative design with an emphasis on the integration of Geographic Information Systems in analysis, modelling, and measuring change. Issues of reforestation and habitat restoration are also key interests. She received her BS in Forest Management from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and her MLA from Cal Poly Pomona.
Rod teaches design and construction in the undergraduate program.
A graduate of Michigan State University in 1966 receiving a BSLA and MSLA, Rod has been a professor at Cal Poly for 34 years. Recent creative and research activities include the design of landscape lighting systems. His research and involvement with landscape lighting has included providing seminars on a national and international level to teach people the art of landscape lighting. He focuses on energy, regenerative design, creative thinking, and electronic media. This project received a National Merit Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects and a Sustainable Design Award by the Architects for Social Responsibility.