SCASLA Achievement Award
Judges complimented the clear layout and memorable vignettes, with clear site analysis and a holistic design that addressed multiple issues with the site.
This project realigns a creek through an empty, contaminated parcel within Point Pinole Regional Shoreline and connects the creek to a restored marsh by using Engineering with Nature® design concepts. Together with creek restoration, the project improves access, use, and enjoyment of the Shoreline by using Play for All and A Pattern Language design principles.
About
Kristin Byrd
I am a landscape ecologist with a background in wetland science, plant ecology, and geospatial technologies. I received a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from U.C. Berkeley in 2005, and I have worked at the U.S. Geological Survey in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2009. At USGS, I have led research projects on wetland bird habitats, ecosystem services, climate impacts and carbon sequestration around California, Puget Sound, and the Gulf Coast.
I believe that landscape architecture is central to building nature-based solutions on the coast, since it brings together people, nature, art and engineering, and creates the vision for what is possible. I am very excited to move into this new chapter where I hope to combine my science and now design backgrounds on projects that use nature-based solutions to solve challenging problems on the coast and elsewhere. In my spare time I like to be outdoors either hiking, camping, paddleboarding or running, or meeting up with a plein air painting group to sketch or paint something in nature. I live in San Mateo, CA with my husband, our puppy, and our two sons (who are now away in college).