Richard Hammond - Portfolio

Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond Education University

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania Minor in Environmental Inquiry Graduated May 2014

Study Abroad

University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia July - November 2013 Akademie für internationale Bildung Bonn, Germany January - May 2013

Certifications

Qualified Professional (Issued by MD-DNR) November 2018 Erosion & Sediment Control Certification License RPC013447 (Issued by MDE) June 2018

Software Skills

AutoCAD, ArcGIS, QGIS,CityEngine Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, SketchUp, Rhino, Unity, Microsoft Office

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Social Media Manager OpenStreetMap Zambia November 2017 - Present

Language Skills

ChiTonga: Intermediate Level Spanish: Intermediate Level German: Beginner Level

E-mail

rjh5244@gmail.com

Cell

(703) 309-0849

Experience Landscape Architect/Planner

CV Inc, Rockville, MD May 2018 - Present • Assisted with Wetland Delineations, Tree Identification, and Forest Stand Delineations. .

• Created GIS Datasets and Maps for current and proposed projects.

• Assisted with drafting concept plans, grading plans, planting plans, and erosion and sediment control plans.

• Created plant palettes for Micro-Bio and Wetland areas.

Garden Specialist

Meadowlark Botanical Gardens,Vienna,VA March 2018 - May 2018 • Assisted with planting design for containers and seasonal beds.

• Propagated plants from seed and cuttings.

• Assisted with garden maintenance (Pruning, Weeding, Mulching, etc).

• Supervised adult volunteers.

Forestry Extension Agent

Peace Corps Zambia, Hantumbu Village, Mazabuka District, Zambia, February 2015 - April 2017 • Utilized open source mapping software to create a map of my catchment area to assist the local health center.

• Assisted Farmers with improved agricultural practices and agroforestry techniques.

• Demonstrated healthy cooking techniques and food processing with locally available resources., including wild fruits.

• Connected qualified farmers within the community to a microlending organization (Zidisha).

GIS & Research Assistant

The Pennsylvania State University Hamer Center for Community Design, University Park, PA February 2014 - December 2014 • Created a series of Models and Tools related to analyzing Marcellus Shale. Natural Gas Formation • Co-Authored the paper “Probabilistic Modelling and Complex Energy Landscape Design and Planning: An Experimental Approach”.

• Created 3D models of Penn State University and Blossburg Pennsylvania using CityEngine.

• Assisted in the design and planning of a Student Farm at Penn State University.

• Created a series of WebMaps using ArcGIS Online related to Marcellus Shale.

Planning & Development Intern

Fairfax County Park Authority, Fairfax,VA, May 2012- August 10th 2012 • Created a series of regional park plans and basemaps in GIS and CAD • Worked on a grading plan for a neighborhood park • Updated technical facility standards and details for the Park Authority • Participated in Community Planning Workshops • Reviewed zoning applications • Helped to conduct an invasive plant inventory in a resource-based park

Agriculture & Sustainability Intern

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Preforming Arts, Vienna,VA, May 23rd 2011- August 12th 2011 • Worked with both Wolf Trap National Park and The Wolf Trap Foundation.

• Designed, Built, and Maintained two vegetable gardens; a small 15x20 ft one and a larger 50x50 ft.

• Tended to a 50x90 ft vegetable garden.

• Designed a composting system for Wolf Trap National Park • Began the process for implementing a Farmers Market at the Park

Table of Contents 1) Harbor View Subdivision

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Fort Washington, MD

2) Container Designs

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Vienna,VA

3) Peace Corps Zambia

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Hantumbu Village, Zambia

4) Marcellus Shale Predictive Mapping

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Pennsylvania

5) Student Enrichment Center Design

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Harrisburg, PA

6) Mapping Invasive Species Susceptability

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Sullivan County, PA

7) Vegetable Garden Design/Build

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Vienna,VA

8) Hand Drawing Hantumbu Village, Zambia

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Harbor View Subdivision - 2018 - Present Fort Washington, MD

Illustrative Rendering

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Summary Harbor View is a seven lot, residential subdivision in Fort Washington, MD. I was able to have quite a bit of involvement in every phase of this project so far. At the beginning of the project, I conducted preliminary reserach into the site and was then able to go out and conduct a forest stand delineation and prepare the associated report and natural resource inventory.

After the field work was conducted, I prepared two different subdivsion concepts to present to the client. We were able to convince the client to go with the layout that allowed for deeper lots.

After a concept was approved by the client, I started to work on site grading in conjuction with an engineer to provide functional stormwater management practices, meet county requirements, and try to save as many specimen trees on site as possible.

At the same time grading was being worked on, I also needed to pay attention to the existing vegetation and develop an forest conservation plan for the site. Our design allowed for a large percentage of exiting woodland as well as a handful of the existing specimen trees to remain on site, undisturbed.

Concept A

Concept B

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Natural Resource Inventory

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Tree Conservation Plan

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Container Designs - 2018 Vienna,VA

Summary After returning from the Peace Corps, I worked for a couple months at a local botanical garden.

While there, I weeded, watered, pruned, and maintained gardens in a pristine condition. Every couple of weeks, I was tasked with switching

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out plants and redesigning some of the containers within the indoor Atrium. I had to keep to a color combination selected by the horticulturist on staff, but the arrangments were my own using available plants from the greenhouse.

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Peace Corps Zambia - 2015 - 2017 Hantumbu Village, Zambia

Summary After finishing university, I decided to go in a different direction than my classmates. Instead of heading off to go work for a design firm, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years living in a rural village in Zambia. I served as a Forestry Extension Agent under the Linking Income Food and Environment program, and worked hand in hand with community members and government

employees to assist with conservation farming, tree planting, healthy cooking, and income diversification.

I taught people to make jams and drinks with wild fruits, how to make bread with local ingredients, crafting animal feeds with local resources, and promoted the planting of native trees, as well as certain exotic food security trees. In addition I also helped create a map for the clinic a forest department.

Environmental Education During the two years in Zambia, other volunteers and I organized two successful environmental education camps for primary school students.

Each volunteer in the province was able to bring two students and an adult counterpart to go to a national park for a week where they learned about the environment, conservation farming, saw native wildlife, and played educational games.

After returning from the trip, the students start environment clubs at their schools.

Planting Trees

Discovering the World

Students Seeing Elephants for the First Time

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Anxious to Learn

Conservation Farming A major part of my time in Zambia was focused on teaching improved farming practices related to conservation farming and agroforestry. I regularly visited farmers fields and offered advice and suggestions. I taught farmers to use local resources to accomplish tasks, while saving money.

For example, I taught farmers to make a broad spectrum pesticide using water, tobacco, and laundry soap for under a dollar. I also showed farmers how to make animal feeds using local resources. For example, making hay bales as dry season food for cattle, or making chicken feed with locally grown crops and wild plants.

Planting Trees

Making Hay

Examining Cimbwali (Sweet Potato)

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Home Improvement

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April 2015

November 2015

April 2017

April 2017

Tree Nursery

Rain Water Catchement

Home Garden

Village Mapping

Mapping Manyaana Catchment Area for Forest Department and Clinic

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Dirt and Gravel Roads

Marcellus Shale Predictive Mapping - 2014 Pennsylvania

Summary Due to the explosion of natural gas development in the Marcellus shale region in Pennsylvania, the Penn State Hamer Center for Community design was looking into the effects and design solutions to natural gas development. I was tasked with first developing the data sets for small watersheds in Pennsylvania by adding and calculating information such as: miles of dirt and gravel roads, percent

forest cover, percent agricultural cover, acres of wetland, miles of streams, numbers of existing wells, number of potential wells, and leaving the possibility to add more data to this data set.

After the data was gathered and curated, I ran a Maximum Entropy Model to predict where new wells might be drilled. Maximum Entropy Models are typically used for species modeling, but in this

case we applied it in a different sense. It takes the locations of existing wells and all of the factors that go into drilling and predicts where they are most likely to be drilled.

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Miles of Dirt and Gravel Roads 3-9 9 - 18 18 - 40

> 40

Percent Forest

Mean Probability

0 - 20%

20 - 40%

Percent Forest 40 - 60%

60 - 80%

80 - 100%

Miles of Streams 20 - 40

40 - 90

> 90

Streams

Low

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Mean Probability Moderate

High

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8 - 20

Wells Over Time Maximun Entropy Model

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2011

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Probability Moderate

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Maximum Entropy To calculate the probability of a gas well being drilled, we created a Maximum Entropy model.

This allowed us to take existing well data and the factors that go into determining where a company is most likely to drill (Depth to Gas, Distance to Transmission Lines, Distance to Roads, Land Use, Natural Areas, Slope, Shale Thickness, and Water Bodies) to create a model. The Biggest factors determining well locations were Depth to Gas, Distance to Roads, Existing Land Use, and Shale Thickness. We also created models for every year since the first wells were drilled to see how this model might have changed over time.

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Pipelines The predictive mapping also called for mapping out potential pipelines for both existing wells and well projections. Using existing data for transmission lines, I was able to generate least cost paths for pipelines connecting wells to transmission lines. We ran two different models, one for least cost pipelines and one for pipelines that took conservation into consideration. In the conservation pipelines, we took into consideration factors such as wetlands, streams, important habitats, park land, and other factors.

Webmaps To help create public awareness, we needed to create webmaps that the public could use to see how their local communities might be impacted by gas development. The maps showed small watersheds across the state and the probability that wells could be drilled in the area. It also incorporated tabs to show other maps such as dirt and gravel roads, forest cover, agricultural land, streams, and wetlands. Clicking on a watershed would also bring up detailed information.

CityEngine For similar purposes as the Webmaps, we also decided to model the effects of gas development on some small towns in Pennsylvania. I was able to model the town of Blossburg and try to create rules to map out the buildings, show increased traffic, and also show the visual impact of gas wells. More scenes from the CityEngine model can be seen on a web application.

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CityEngine Model - Blossburg, PA

CityEngine Model - Blossburg, PA

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Student Enrichment Center - Spring 2014 Harrisburg, PA

Summary As part of a collabrative studio at Penn State, I worked with an architect, a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a construction manager to design a Student Enrichment Center at Penn State Harrisburg.

For the landscape design, I choose to create an apple orchard as the prominent feature. The apple orchard would serve as a way for students to break away from traditional campus life and also provide a new tradition for a university trying to break away from being a commuter school. I worked closely with the architect in creating a great interaction between indoor and outdoor space, and also worked with the lighting engineer to develop a lighting plan for the site. As a team we developed a BIM workflow to help us develop an integrative and collaborative approach to designing the building and site.

Lighting Plan

View from College Ave (First St)

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Final Plan

Gabion Diagram - Day

Perspective - Apple Orchard Gabion Diagram - Night

Perspective - Courtyard

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Design Development At the start of the design process, I had three different design schemes. The first scheme, had a skate park incorporated into the design, the second scheme focused on an apple orchard, and the third scheme split the site into a forest and a lawn. Ultimately, we decided to develop the scheme that incorporated the apple orchard, while developing the building scheme in scheme 1. The building we decided to develop also incorpated ideas from other designs. We decided to go with a gateway opening to a large plaza. This connected to a open lawn space and an apple orchard. The apple orchard helped connect the landscape with the eating space, while also creating a new tradition of the university.

Scheme 1

Scheme 2

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Scheme 3

Perspective - Path Towards Gateway

Perspective - Apple Orchard

Final Planting Plan

Grasse

25% Sor 25% Sch 50%

Forbs:

2% Ante 1% Apoc 5% Ascle 5% Ascle 2% Aste 3% Cham 3% Chry 2% Core 3% Eupa 3% Helio 5% Lathy 2% Liatr 2% Lotu 1% Mon 1% Oeno 1% Oeno 3% Parth 2% Pens 2% Rudb 2% Solid 50%

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Invasive Species Susceptibility - Fall 2012

High Impact Conservation Projections

High Impact Market Projections

Existing Development

Pre-Development

Sullivan County, PA Persicaria perfoliata

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Ailanthus altissima

Microstegium vimineum

Lonicera japonica

Summary In this project, I mapped out the susceptibility of four different invasive species: Persicaria perfoliata (Mile-a-Minute), Ailanthus altissima (Tree of Heaven), Microstegium vimineum (Japanese Stilt Grass), and Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle). Due to the increase in natural gas drilling, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania would develop a greater risk of invasive species. In this project, I also had a more detailed look at the area around Lake Macoma, a community of mainly vacation homes in Sullivan County that had sold off mineral rights to gas developers so they could fix their dam. I also created potential, infographics to create awareness about invasive species and provided recommendations and plant suggestions for reducing the likelihood of invasives spreading.

These plant suggestions are recommended for three different scenarios: Roadside Buffers, Pipeline Easements, and Well Pad Buffers.

Existing Development

Lake Macoma Scale Pre-Development

Market Projections

Conservation Projections

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Vegetable Gardens - Summer 2011 Vienna,VA

Summary While working for the National Park Service at Wolf Trap National Park, I was tasked with designing and building two vegetable gardens; a small 15 x 20 ft colonial garden and a 50 x 50 ft meadow garden. The colonial garden consisted of five raised beds surrounded by a split rail fence.

For the path space in between beds, we used

Colonial Garden

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decorative pea gravel. The larger meadow garden was located at the bottom of a hill near where the childrens’ amphitheater is located. Due to the heavy amount of deer in the area, we needed to use deer fencing to protect the garden, this also allowed for the fencing to be removed in the winter so that people would be able to sled.

Meadow Garden

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Hand Drawing - 2015 - 2017 Hantumbu Village, Zambia

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