STEPHANIE LIN
  • Research
    • Combustible Landscapes
    • Contemporary Paradise
    • East Bay Hills Restoration
    • Oak Land
    • Thresholds of Urbanity
  • Installations
    • Carrizo Plain Ecosystem Project
    • Cheap Chair
    • Community Bench
    • Finding Fault
    • Garden of Reciprocity
    • Kinetic Fields
    • LandWorks Argentiera
    • Oak Land
  • Competitions
    • Bahay Kubo
    • Cleaves
    • Dismeco Co-Industrial Park
    • Ocean Beach Play Wall
    • Quarry Shores
    • Soak Lab
  • Drawings
    • Anthropology Museum
    • Estuary Park
    • Flex Block
    • Honey Trail
    • Imagining a Third Nation
    • Laundry to Landscape
    • Miscellaneous
    • Mod Space
    • Outdoor Museum of Contemporary Combustion
  • CV
  • About
  • Contact
  • Research
    • Combustible Landscapes
    • Contemporary Paradise
    • East Bay Hills Restoration
    • Oak Land
    • Thresholds of Urbanity
  • Installations
    • Carrizo Plain Ecosystem Project
    • Cheap Chair
    • Community Bench
    • Finding Fault
    • Garden of Reciprocity
    • Kinetic Fields
    • LandWorks Argentiera
    • Oak Land
  • Competitions
    • Bahay Kubo
    • Cleaves
    • Dismeco Co-Industrial Park
    • Ocean Beach Play Wall
    • Quarry Shores
    • Soak Lab
  • Drawings
    • Anthropology Museum
    • Estuary Park
    • Flex Block
    • Honey Trail
    • Imagining a Third Nation
    • Laundry to Landscape
    • Miscellaneous
    • Mod Space
    • Outdoor Museum of Contemporary Combustion
  • CV
  • About
  • Contact
STEPHANIE LIN

​CV

EDUCATION


University of california, berkeley

M.L.A. Landscape Architecture  |  2016 
Combustible Landscapes

B.S. Society & Environment  |  2009 
B.A. Integrative Biology 
​The restoration of native flora following Eucalyptus globulus removal in the East Bay Hills of Northern California

Minor in Forestry & Natural Resources

Minor in Public Policy 

University of California, Santa Cruz

Certificate of Ecological Horticulture  | 2011
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PROFESSIONAL experience


NECTAR

Principal  |  April 2022 - present
Los Angeles, CA

RIOS

Project Designer  |  Dec 2019 - March 2022
Los Angeles, CA
Garden of Reciprocity - Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Echelon Studios - Los Angeles, CA
Universal Plaza Activation - Tigard, OR

Social Impact Initiative at RIOS (council member, business development & operations)

JERDE

Senior Landscape Designer  |  March 2019 - Nov 2019
Los Angeles, CA

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS

Designer  |  Sept 2017 - March 2019
Los Angeles, CA

Towards a Playful City - Los Angeles, CA
Playa District - Los Angeles, CA
​Robertson Lane - West Hollywood, CA
1500 Quail - Newport Beach, CA

Horton Plaza - San Diego, CA

Paramount Pictures - Los Angeles, CA
The Park - San Diego, CA
​DOCO - Sacramento, CA
Drake Bridge Commons - Austin, TX

joni l. janecki & associates

Design Associate  |  Sept 2016 - Sept 2017
Santa Cruz, CA
First Street Green - Los Altos Community Investments, Los Altos
Healing Courtyards - Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz

Farm Park - Santa Cruz County
Capitola Library - Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Santa Cruz
Felton Library - Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Santa Cruz

University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor  |  Aug 2014 - May 2016
(LD ARCH 134A) Drawing Workshop I, Professor Walter Hood
(LD ARCH 134A) Drawing Workshop I, Tim Mollette-Parks
(ESPM 105A-D) Forestry, Various Professors
(ESPM C159) Human Diet, Professor Katharine Milton

Graduate Student Researcher  |  Jan - May 2015
(ENV DES 4A) Activism and Design, Professors Walter Hood, Professor Ron Rael
Cultural Practice Lab, Professor Walter Hood

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Design + Construction Lead  |  Jun - Sept 2014
​Carrizo Plain Ecosystem Project, Professor Justin Brashares

Christiansen Associates gardens + Design

Horticulturist  |  Dec 2011 - Aug 2013
Santa Cruz, CA

Curtis Horticulture, Inc.

Horticulturist  |  Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
San Jose, CA

Independent Contracts

Consultant Draftsperson  |  Apr - May 2016
Eastford, Connecticut

Yale-Myers Forest Orchard

​Gardener  |  Jun 2006 - Aug 2013
Berkeley, San Francisco, San Jose, Aptos, CA

Horticultural Instructor  |  Feb - Aug 2012
San Francisco, CA
Lifecrowd

University of California, Berkeley

Research Assistant  |  Feb - Dec 2010
Biological control research in N. CA vineyards
Altieri Agroecology Lab, Albie Miles and Houston Wilson

Instructor  |  Jan - May 2009
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Preparation Lab


Curatorial Assistant  |  May 2010 - May 2011
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Natural History Archives


Research Assistant  |  May - Sept 2008
McBride Urban Forestry Lab, Professor Joe McBride
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Research Assistant  |  Aug 2007 - May 2008
​Sousa Community Ecology Lab, Professor Andrea Swei


Research Assistant  |  2006
Power Lab - Riparian Ecology Research, Professor Mary Power


awards


2016 ASLA Student Honor Award in Communications
2016 
Farrand Research Grant
2016 Thomas Church Memorial Design Competition (1st)
2015 Thomas Church Memorial Design Competition (1st)
2015 Vertical Cities Asia Design Competition (2nd)
​2015 Farrand Fund Grant
2015 Big Ideas@Berkeley Competition (1st)
2015 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

2015 EcoFarm Scholarship
2013 California Landscape Contractors Association (Central Coast) Maintenance Award

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Publications & Presentations


Towards A Playful City |  2019
In collaboration with Vicki Li, Yun Shi, and Asami Morita
​RIOS Research Initiative


Wheel Throwing |  2019
Assembly Blog

Fire Walk: Resilience and Recovery in the Wildland Urban Interface |  2018
LALA (Los Angeles Landscape Architects) Field Tour in collaboration with Brendan Kempf

Kinetic Fields |  2017
In collaboration with Micaela Bazo
​Ground Up Journal, Issue 6: Process
University of California, Berkeley

Combustible Landscapes  |  2016
Masters thesis
University of California, Berkeley

Imagining the Third Nation  |  2016
In collaboration with Professor Michael Dear, Story Wiggins, and Michelle Hook
Ground Up Journal, Issue 5: Delineations
​University of California, Berkeley

​Acupuncturing Changlong Village  |  2015
In collaboration with South China University of Technology, Professor Marco Cenzatti, Ettore Santi, Annabell Hua, Carlos Martinez-Horta, Brooke Jones, Katie McKnight, Zoe Roller, Jacob Rosen, Phirak Suon
​University of California, Berkeley

The restoration of native flora following Eucalyptus globulus removal in the East Bay Hills of Northern California  |  2009
2009 UC Berkeley Fire Committee meeting
2012 Society of American Foresters conference poster session

​The distribution and role of an invasive plant species, Lantana camara, in disturbed roadside habitats in Mo'orea, French Polynesia  |  2007
​University of California, Berkeley
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Skills & LANGUAGES


Digital

AutoCAD + Land F/X  |  advanced
Revit  |  
novice
Rhino + VRAY  |  advanced
Lumion |  advanced
Adobe Suite   |  advanced
ArcMap GIS  |  novice

Horticulture

propagation  |  intermediate
plant selection  |  advanced
irrigation systems design  |  intermediate
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landscape maintenance  |  advanced
aesthetic pruning  |  advanced

ecology

forest measurements  |  intermediate
vegetation surveys |  intermediate
entomology surveys |  intermediate
wildlife surveys |  novice
macro-invertebrate stream surveys |  novice

language

English  |  native
Chinese (Mandarin)  |  limited working proficiency
French  |  elementary proficiency
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academic travel


LandWorks Design Workshop |  2015
Argentiera, Sardinia, Italy


Vertical Cities Asia  |  2015
Singapore


WWOOFING Farm Worker Exchange  |  2009
Hualien, Taiwan

GWB  |  2008
Corralito, Honduras
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Gump Research Station  |  2007
Mo'orea, French Polynesia
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EXTRACURRICULAR & Community Service


Volunteer |  2017
Santa Cruz, CA
Museum of Art & History

Editorial Staff  |  2014, 2016
Berkeley, CA
Ground Up Journal


Academic Committee Member |  2013-2016
American Society of Landscape Architects @Berkeley

Volunteer, Garden Maintenance  |  2013-2016
Santa Cruz, CA
Life Lab Garden Classroom


Member  |  2007-2012
Society of American Foresters

Volunteer, Garden Design  |  2011
San Jose, CA
Valley Verde


Volunteer, Garden Design​  |  2010
El Monte, CA
EarthWorks Farm & Community Garden

Board of Directors, Fundraising Committee  |  2009-2010
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Student Food Collective

Tutor  |  2009
San Quentin State Prison, CA
Teach In Prison
Goldman School of Public Policy





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