The Team
Daniella Hirschfeld, PhD
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, USU
Program Faculty, Climate Adaptation Science, USU
Daniella’s expertise is in spatial planning for long-term climate change impacts. Her research focuses on projecting the costs of adaptation options, unpacking the implications of science-practice interactions, and understanding the adaptive capacity of governance systems. She is particularly interested in weaving together the connected disciplines of urban ecology and environmental planning to build bridge between theory and planning practice.
Daniella received her PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from University of California, Berkeley. Her PhD was funded by the McQuown Fellowship at UC Berkeley and by the State of California’s Ocean Protection Council. Daniella received her bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy at Dartmouth College and her master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Daniella also has professional experience in coastal zone management, sustainability planning and urban planning.
Graduate Students (current):
Forest Cook - PhD, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Amy Guenther - B+MLA, Landscape Architecture
Conner Smith - MS, Environmental Planning
Julie Coleman - MLA, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Tayli Hillyard - MS, Environmental Planning
Saul Karamesines - MS, Environmental Planning
Former Graduate Students and Advisees
Ray Boyle - MCP, Environmental Planning, 2021 at UC Berkeley
Landis Wenger - MS, Environmental Planning, 2021
“Managing Summer Camps: A Study of Culture and Practices at Environmentally Conscious Camps” 2022 American Camp Association Research Forum. Portland, OR. February 2022
Amanda Hamilton - MLA, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. (2020 - Present)
“LUH and USU: Landscape Resilience Cache Valley,”
International Geodesign Collaboration 2021. Virtually. May 2021
Other Previous Advisees
Devin Macfarlane - MLA, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, 2022. Design associate at Koontz Jones Design
Anal Al-Tamini - MLA, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, 2020. Landscape architect at SKS Studio
Erin Mann - MS, Environmental Planning, 2020
Henrik Panosyan - MS, Climate Science, 2020