Mrs. Anderson, PLA, AICP, is a landscape architect and urban planner with a background in sustainable design, park master planning, comprehensive planning, and community development. As an assistant professor in the landscape architecture program at the University of Texas at Arlington, her research focuses on planning and design approaches that foster cultural landscapes, environmental reconnection, equitable engagement, and community development in minority neighborhoods.

Mr. Artunç has dedicated his academic career to educating students in innovative, humanistic, and environmentally sensitive planning, design, and implementation and to serving as a passionate advocate for the profession and education of professionals. With the highest standards of professional ethics, he has been a highly successful and very consistent role model for his students and colleagues.
A native of Turkey, Mr. Artunç is a naturalized citizen of the U.S.A. He has a BS and MS in forestry and forest engineering from the University of Istanbul and an MLA from the University of Michigan. Mr. Artunç is a registered landscape architect in the U.S.A. and a registered forester and forest engineer in Turkey. His teaching involves design implementation and construction, site planning and design, and regional planning and design. Mr. Artunç professional consulting involves large-scale planning and design with a focus mostly on recreation and tourism, resource planning, and design implementation/construction. He has worked on projects in the United States, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Turkey. Prior to arriving in the United States in 1975, he worked in Turkey as a forester and forest engineer for the Ministry of Forestry, as a recreation planner in the Central Planning Office and, also, as the planning director of the Olympus National Park for the Department of National Parks.
Mr. Artunç has been an active member of various professional organizations and societies since 1981. Always a tireless and enthusiastic promoter of the profession of landscape architecture and ASLA, He served at various leadership capacities and levels: the Louisiana Chapter president (1991); chapter trustee (1996–2001); and finally as the national vice-president of membership (2002–2004), during which time ASLA membership had a tremendous growth in numbers. Mr. Artunç was inducted into the ASLA Council of Fellows in 2000.

Mr. Flack has earned his designations, among select thousands in the world, as a Certified Professional in Erosion & Sediment Controls (CPESC) as well as his designation as a Certified Erosion, Sediment and Storm Water Inspector (CESSWI), lending his experience and training to his customers to consult them in all their stormwater needs. He has also earned his status as a Qualified Compliance Inspector of Stormwater (QCIS) and as a Qualified Preparer of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (QPSWPPP. He also earned the Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead (CESCL), which is a 17.5-hour certificate program as required by Washington State for all construction stormwater management. He is a subject matter expert and lead instructor for StormwaterONE, which has established itself as the leader in stormwater management training and credentialing, the school’s mission is to provide their students with the most comprehensive and up to date training of individual stormwater permits, online or in-person.

Brad has been invited to speak in-person on storm water and erosion control issues in many locations, including California, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Wyoming, Oregon, Colorado, Ohio and New Mexico, as well as internationally in Antigua, Guatemala, and in San Jose, Costa Rica. Furthermore, he has provided virtual online training for wide variety organizations across the country, including the Army Corps of Engineers, Maryland Stadium Authority, and more.

Additionally, he served as president and administrative vice president for the South-Central Chapter of the International Erosion Control Association. Furthermore, he directed the IECA Region 1 Education Committee: Stormwater Management Track as co-chair, which encompasses North America, South America and Europe. Brad also sat as the Region 6 Chapter President for EnviroCert International (ECI) and was a member of the Policies and Procedures Committee for ECI. He has served as the Region 7 representative for the CPESC, Inc., group as well as the technical vice-chair for the Council. He has been an IECA Mentor and served as a TCEQ EnviroMentor.

Brad has been involved with Stormwater Quality Management since 2004 where he learned about permitting, turf establishment, erosion control and detention pond maintenance and has continued to be a student of the industry throughout his career. His attention to detail and depth of knowledge about structural control devices, vegetative stabilization and best management practices are a valuable asset to his clients and students.

His wife is his high school sweetheart, and they have been married for over 20 years and have three sons. Brad has also actively served at his church and has ventured on over a dozen mission trips, from drilling for water in rural villages in Honduras to assisting in hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico. Brad was the Director of Hands and Feet Honduras/Puerto Rico, a 501(c)3 organization for over eight years.

Since accepting the position as a professor at the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington in 2004, Mr. Hopman, ASLA has energetically pursued a faculty role bridging education, research, and practice. He teaches courses to both graduate landscape architecture and architecture students that reflect his research interests in landscape aesthetics and critical regionalism, landscape architecture research, planting design and native ecology in metropolitan areas.
Landscape architecture practice experience as a registered landscape architect includes Kings Creek Landscaping, Huitt-Zollars, Inc., RTKL, Mesa Design Group, Inc., and a current independent practice. Recent projects include green roof design for Forest Park Medical Center (with David C. Baldwin, Inc.), The Plano Environmental Education Center landscape (with David Rietzsch and Associates), consultation on the planting design for the Bush Presidential Library in Dallas (with Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates) and serving as an owner representative for a new Austin College Master Plan (with Studio Outside).

Mr. Mahadin is a land development project manager who practiced planning, landscape architecture and civil engineering for more than 12 years. Managed and designed more than 200 Land development projects in Jordan, Turkey, Italy, and the United States. Currently, he holds three professional degrees: Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design (Jordan), Master’s Degree in Landscape Design and Environmental Planning (Italy), and a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture (United States). Mr. Mahadin is based in Dallas-Fort worth area, Texas, positioned as a land development Project Manager for Core States Group and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Texas at Arlington, College of Architecture, Planning & Public Affairs (CAPPA).