Pamela is a Principal at CMG Landscape Architecture with 19 years of experience. She brings a strong ecological background to her projects and works on resiliency and climate change solutions. Her drive to protect the environment stems from her childhood on a farm, education in plant science and regenerative landscape architecture, and experience restoring waterways at the US Army Corps of Engineers.
She focuses on transforming challenged urban areas into socially valued and ecologically performing public open spaces – with experience on two of the largest environmentally innovative projects in the Bay Area responding to Climate Change — Treasure Island Parks and Open Space and the San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program.
She is a recipient of the 2018 Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for the development of the award-winning Pathfinder landscape carbon calculator application and the Climate Positive Design Challenge – products of an extensive research initiative, which she is sharing around the globe. Pamela serves as a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Committee and was recognized by the SF Business Times in 2019 as a NCRE Woman of Influence.
Pamela is currently participating in the 2022-2023 Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Awards
2021 IFLA Climate Change Working Group Vice-Chair
2021 AILA President’s Award Recipient
2021 Metropolis Magazine Planet Positive Award
2021 ENR Top 25 Newsmakers
2020 R+D Award, Architect Magazine
2020 Professional Award, Research, ASLA National
2019 NCRE Women of Influence Award
2018-2019 Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow for Innovation and Leadership