Willam Marsh comes to the Landscape Architecture Program from the University of Michigan where he enjoyed a diverse career as a landscape planner, teacher, author, and consultant. He is a former Chairman of the Department of Earth and Resource Sciences and a former Director of the Laboratory for Land and Water Management, both at the University of Michigan-Flint. He has authored numerous papers on landscape planning and environmental management and is the author of several books including the classic 2005 text, Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications (4th ed) from John Wiley publishers.
In addition to being a well-recognized scholar, Professor Marsh is a distinguished teacher. He is the recipient of the Faculty award from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities and, from 1994-96, held the David M. French Distinguished Professorship at the University of Michigan-Flint. He is an Honorary Member of the Michigan Society of Landscape Architects and in 1985 and 1986 was appointed Great Master of the Design Atelier in Landscape Architecture at the Texas A & M University. More recently, he served on the National Accreditation Board of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.
Professor Marsh teaches courses and workshops in landscape analysis for site planning and design, with emphasis on small towns, coastal environments, and watersheds. He also participates in thesis committee work and advises watershed organizations, developers, and communities on problems of land use change, system-based design, and landscape management. He is co-founder of the Will Marsh-Doug Paterson Scholarship in Landscape Architecture at UBC.