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Sustainability and Smart Cities: Next Gen MKE live panel podcast

Listen to this Person & Planet Podcast - a live recording from the Next Gen MKE event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15, 2024. The Sustainability & Smart Cities panel, hosted by Stephanie Krubsack - Purevant Living, featured panelists: Janet Silbernagel…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterSeptember 27, 2024

Community Engagement Conservation Strategies GIS Mapping

Spatial Narratives Landscape App

Every place has a story. What if we could harness the analytical power of geographic software (GIS) for mapping space, with the rich, experiential qualities of place? And what if communities could write their own narrative? Such spatial narratives could…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterJune 10, 2022

Community Engagement GIS Mapping

Translating Geodesign to Practice

In late February 2020 I attended my last professional meeting in person before the COVID shutdown: the 2020 Geodesign Summit at Esri Headquarters in Redlands, CA. I gave the very last talk on the last day of the Summit. My…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterJanuary 27, 2021

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Mammoth Hike – 5th Edition

The Finish In the final edition I go to two segments distant from each other and distinct in their own way: Holy Hill and Madison. Read the finish to my Mammoth Hike Challenge in this Story Map . After raving…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterDecember 4, 2020

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Mammoth Hike – 4rd Edition

When my family asked what I wanted to do for my birthday on the 10th, I knew. I wanted to do the Gibraltar Rock segment with them before going out to dinner nearby. So I skipped north knowing that this…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 30, 2020

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Mammoth Hike – 3rd Edition

I switched to using 'Edition' rather than 'Week' for the supplements to this story because my series of hikes was not linear in days and directions. I didn't consistently go from one segment to the next in a north-south or…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 23, 2020

Community Engagement

Mammoth Hike – 2nd Edition

The Table Bluff segments were kind of my warm up: close to home, familiar. Since I didn’t have a hiking partner to shuttle a car, I did it in two sections back and forth: Swamp Lovers and Hoverstrom Preserve on…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 19, 2020

Community Engagement

My Mammoth Hike Challenge

This October the Ice Age Trail, a National Scenic Trail that follows the leading edge of glaciers from some 12,000 years ago through Wisconsin, celebrated 40 years with a 40 mile Mammoth hike challenge. Hike any combination of segments on…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 9, 2020

Janet Silbernagel Balster, PhD

I bring extensive international and public lands experience to my practice. I have spent 25 years in academics as faculty of landscape architecture, GIS and conservation at two universities, where I led projects in Asia, Europe, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Lakes regions. Prior to being a professor, I worked as a landscape ecologist and landscape architect with the US Forest Service.

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Janet Silbernagel was one of 6 storytellers for Before the Abstract, a live science storytelling event hosted by Springer and Story Collider in conjunction with IALE Portland 2015. Listen to podcast here!

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Sustainability and Smart Cities: Next Gen MKE live panel podcast

Spatial Narratives Landscape App

Translating Geodesign to Practice

Mammoth Hike – 5th Edition

Mammoth Hike – 4rd Edition

Mammoth Hike – 3rd Edition

Mammoth Hike – 2nd Edition

My Mammoth Hike Challenge

Janet Silbernagel Balster, PhD

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