News

On Wednesday and Friday this week, the SCAPE team participated in Earth Week events at Conference House Park on Staten Island.

For part 2 of our Be’er Sheva Quarry Park Site Visit series, we are sharing John and Jin’s ground research experience conducted on their recent trip to Israel. Their goal was to gain a better sense of the larger bioregional, geologic, and cultural context of the project site.

In March, the Public Sediment team got the chance to deepen their understanding of mud, gravel beaches, and the needs of fish. The team was in the Bay Area to present their mid-review, but managed to spend significant time out in the field along the banks of the Alameda and edges of the Bay.

SCAPE is honored to receive 3 ASLA New York Awards this year, for the Hall of Science Discovery Terrace, Gowanus Lowlands and the New York-Presbyterian & Columbia University Medical Campus Joint Master Plan.

In mid-March, John and Jin traveled to Be’er Sheva Israel to meet with the Be’er Sheva Quarry Park design and client teams. We will be featuring a series of news posts about their trip. To kick-off the series, we are sharing some photos and notes from their visit to the project site to ground proof the design proposal and seek further inspiration.

On April 4th, Pippa will be speaking at the 2018 5th Annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy, and Design (TISED) at McGill University. The symposium is focused on resilience and human responses to climate change, and is free and open to the public.

Rebuild by Design released their new book TOO BIG. Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change.

Kate will be traveling to Atlanta on March 26th to give a keynote presentation at Park Pride’s Annual Parks & Greenspace Conference: the largest greenspace gathering in the southeast. This year’s theme, “Parks & the Resilient City,” will focus on how robust park systems contribute to the resiliency of urban environments.

A new study published in Science Advances warns that sinking land will exacerbate sea level rise and flooding in the Bay Area.

The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) invites the public to attend the eighth Rebuild by Design Living Breakwaters Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting to hear an update and to provide input.