Mark Simmons

Austin

Mark Simmons Ph.D. is Director of Research and Environmental Design for the Ecosystem Design Group at the University of Texas. He graduated from University of Cape Town, South Africa with a M.Sc. in Botany, and received his Ecology Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Scientific research projects include: green roofs, green walls, roadside revegetation, prescribed fire, native turfgrass, urban prairies, and urban storm-water management. He works with multidisciplinary design teams for local and national clients including private developers, city and state authorities, the US Army Corps of Engineers, NASA and the National Park Service. Recent international lectures on ecological design include: The World Green Roof Congress, Copenhagen 2012; Society for Urban Ecology, Berlin 2013; Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Congress Ottawa 2014, a TEDx talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QMnhJtLxSg in November 2013 and more recently the speaker for the 2014 Oskar von Miller Forum Lecture in Munich, Germany.