Mark Boyer Associate Professor B.L.A, University of Kentucky M.L.A., Lousiana State University mboyer@uark.edu 479/575-7077

Mark Boyer’s research focuses on green roofs and other sustainable stormwater management technologies. He earned an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture at the University of Kentucky, and followed two years of practice with a graduate degree in landscape architecture at Louisiana State University. As a graduate student, Boyer worked with physical geographers, coastal ecologists, state resource managers, federal agencies and federal wildlife managers on several projects that dealt with protecting and restoring sensitive ecosystems and lands. Some of that work has been published in international journals and presented at national conferences.

Following his graduate education, Boyer again went into private practice where he worked on sensitive ecosystems being developed as state parks and national wildlife refuges. He joined the School of Architecture faculty in 1998 and teaches courses on landscape architecture construction materials and technologies, ecological design studios, and an interdisciplinary course related to alternative stormwater management techniques. Boyer’s students have designed and constructed a wetlands observation deck, and an Environmental Center boat dock in Fayetteville and assisted in the installation of two green roofs on the University of Arkansas campus.

Boyer was part of the interdisciplinary University of Arkansas team that designed Habitat Trails, a sustainable neighborhood for the Benton County chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The project has won seven major awards, including a national Honor Award in Analysis and Planning from the ASLA.

He has presented papers at national and international conferences related to his interdisciplinary course and research in stormwater management. In 2001, Mark was the recipient the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award of Recognition, and has also been selected to receive the department faculty teaching award.  Boyer is licensed in Louisiana and Arkansas, and has been hired to co-lead license exam review sessions for the Texas State Chapter of ASLA and conduct on-site Grading and Drainage workshops across the country for CLARB, the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards.

He can often be found conducting stormwater ‘research’ with a fly rod in hand on the famous trout rivers of Arkansas and beyond.