Our People


Stuart Echols, Director

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Penn State University Park
227 Stuckeman
T: 814.865.1421
E: spe10@psu.edu

Stuart Echols is a professor of landscape architecture whose interests focus on two integrated areas of stormwater design: utility and amenity.  Echols has developed and advanced a Split-Flow theory of stormwater design that recognizes landscape and stormwater systems as integrated systems based on the same ecological processes, and that uses landscape design to restore and preserve natural hydrology.



Matt Royer, Co-Director

Director, Agriculture and Environment Center​
Penn State University Park
111B Ferguson Building
T: 814-863-8756
E: mzr154@psu.edu

Matt Royer, an environmental attorney, serves as the director of the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center, in the College of Agricultural Sciences. Prior to joining Penn State, Matt was the Pennsylvania Attorney for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, steering committee member and chair of the stormwater workgroup for the Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water, and assistant counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.



Barbara Gray, Co-Investigator, Project 1 Team Leader

Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior
Penn State University Park
428 Business Building
T: 814-865-1789
E: b9g@psu.edu

Dr. Barbara Gray is a Professor emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Director, Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation, at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Gray’s research interests include interorganizational relations, multiparty collaborative alliances, organizational and environmental conflict, team dynamics and sensemaking.


Professor of GeoDesign
University of Georgia
141 Jackson St Building
285 S. Jackson Street
T: 706-542-0709
E: borland@uga.edu

Brian Orland holds degrees in Architecture, and in Landscape Architecture. He worked at Penn State where he headed the department of landscape architecture for eight years and then directed the Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture before appointment as a Distinguished Professor at UGA.



Christopher Duffy, Co-Investigator, Project 3 Team Leader

Professor of Civil Engineering
Penn State University Park
231 G Sackett Building
T: 814-863-4384
E: cxd11@psu.edu

 Dr. Christopher Duffy holds a Ph.D. in Hydrology, and is a professor of Civil Engineering at Penn State. His primary research interests include stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, and modeling large-scale hydrologic systems.


Shirley Clark, Co-Investigator, Project 3 Team Leader

Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
Penn State Harrisburg
W236f Olmsted Building
T: 717-948-6127
E: sec16@psu.edu

Shirley Clark holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Engineering from the University of Alabama. She is an associate professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg. Her research studies the impact of the engineered environment on nature and public health.


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Richard Ready, Co-Investigator, Project 4 Team Leader

Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics
Montana State University
P.O. Box 172920
Bozeman, MT 59717-2220
T: 406-994-7635
E: richard.ready@montana.edu

Richard Ready holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin. He currently is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. His research interests include environmental economics and natural resource economics.


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James Shortle, Co-Investigator

Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Director, Environment and Natural Resources Institute
Penn State University Park
111D Ferguson Building
T: 814-865-8270
E:

James Shortle holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Iowa State University. He is a professor of Environmental Economics at Penn State and serves as the director of the Environment and Natural Resources Institute. His research interests are related to the design of economic incentives for managing environmental externalities


Lele Shu, Research Assistant
lzs157@psu.edu

Yau-Huo Shr, Master’s Candidate

Kristen Kyler, Outreach Assistant

Hillary Yarger, Outreach Assistant