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What is an ASLA Game Changer?

What does it mean to be selected as an ASLA Game Changer?   The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) puts out a call each summer for bold, data-driven ideas that are helping shape a more climate-smart, equitable, and resilient…
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterSeptember 25, 2025
Conservation StrategiesGIS MappingGreen InfrastructureResilient Design

Coming Soon! Meaningful Scales of Place book chapter

Expected late fall 2025, a new book to published by Elsevier Press, Handbook of Sense of Place will have a chapter written by Dr. Janet Silbernagel! Meaningful scales of place for public engagement in bioregional resiliency efforts. Abstract: Building resiliency…
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterSeptember 25, 2025
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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 Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterSeptember 27, 2024
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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 Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterJune 10, 2022
Conservation StrategiesGIS Mapping

Landscape Ecology Online Course

Janet was one of the key contributing instructors to this online course in landscape ecology produced by ETH-Zurich and WSL in Switzerland, with nearly 12,000 enrolled since 2018 from around the world.      
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterMarch 24, 2022
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Janet Silbernagel Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterApril 27, 2021
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Side by Side in the Countryside

Could Cooperative Conservation be a Fix for Rural Land Demand? Many of Aldo Leopold's writings are remarkably timeless. He also modeled practices that today are major disciplines like wildlife ecology and restoration ecology. Rogue Amur maple sapling in Curtis Prairie,…
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterMarch 11, 2021
Community EngagementGIS 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 Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterJanuary 27, 2021
Community Engagement

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 Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterDecember 4, 2020
Community Engagement

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 Balster
Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 30, 2020
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Janet Silbernagel Balster, PhD, ASLA, SITES AP, WBE

I bring extensive international and public lands experience to my practice. I 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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  • What is an ASLA Game Changer?
  • Coming Soon! Meaningful Scales of Place book chapter
  • Sustainability and Smart Cities: Next Gen MKE live panel podcast
  • Spatial Narratives Landscape App
  • Landscape Ecology Online Course

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