April 2020: The pilot project in Port Bay, NY, was constructed by the Wayne County Soil and Water District in April 2020, guided by the research from the Healthy Port Futures project, which suggested the Sediment Bell idea. It is being monitored for the whole year to better understand morphology changes and to characterize the … Continue reading Port Bay Sediment Bell
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June 2019: The Healthy Port Futures Project lead by Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder of Proof, together with Tess Ruswick, was selected for inclusion in the exhibition and publication Design with Nature Now at the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It was an opportunity to present our ideas for revaluing the river mouth … Continue reading Design with Nature Now
October 2020: Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, and Tess Ruswick were awarded a National Honor Award for Analysis and Planning by the American Society of Landscape Architects for their Healthy Port Futures project. The Great Lakes situation is a harbinger of the effects of climate change on other coasts. Water levels are at historic highs across … Continue reading 2020 National ASLA Award for Analysis and Planning
October 2020: Brian Davis was a team member for the project Seeding Specificity, an extension of the HMI Geoglyph. The project was awarded a National Honor Award in the Research Category by the American Society of Landscape Architects for its research into germination rates for seed mixes designed for dewatered harbor sediment at Hart Miller … Continue reading 2020 National ASLA Award for Research
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