Upcoming Webinar: Measuring Nature and Its Benefits: New Tools and Tech

Measuring Nature and Its Benefits: New Tools and Tech

Tuesday, September 1
2-3pm ET

How can emerging technologies help landscape architects better understand, measure, and communicate the performance of landscapes and natural systems?

This webinar features new approaches to measuring the relationships between nature, people, and the built environment—and how these approaches can inform landscape design, ongoing management, and advocacy efforts. 

Dr. Owen Wiseman will introduce NatureQuant, a technology platform that uses data and machine learning to quantify people’s exposure to nature and explore its connections to health and well-being. He will demonstrate how tools such as NatureScore™ and NatureDose™ can provide measurable insights into the benefits of nature.

Dr. Nadina Galle will share her work on the Internet of Nature®, a framework for pairing ecological knowledge with emerging technology so that cities can monitor and steward the landscapes they build. Drawing on projects across five continents, she will move up the scale of urban biodiversity monitoring — from City Nature Challenge volunteers documenting species on their phones, to AI-powered insect monitoring cameras and bioacoustic sensors listening to a site around the clock, to soil and tree health sensors — and what each makes measurable: species richness, habitat quality, canopy structure. The question running through all of it: whether the habitat a design promised actually arrived, and how landscape architects can use that evidence to make the case for what they build.

Together, the presenters will examine how these emerging tools and approaches can expand our ability to evaluate landscape performance, demonstrate the benefits of landscape interventions, and use data to inform the design of healthier, more resilient, and nature-rich communities.
 

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Learning Objectives

1. Identify emerging technologies and data sources that can measure relationships between nature, human health and well-being, and the built environment. 
2. Evaluate how data from nature and biodiversity monitoring can be used to assess the health, ecological, and social performance of designed landscapes.

3. Apply technology-enabled insights to inform the design and management of healthier, more resilient, and nature-rich communities.

    

Continuing Education Credits

This course is pending approval for 1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH) through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES) and meets the health, safety and welfare requirements (HSW). To earn 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW):

1. View the full webinar above.
2. Complete a short quiz. (You must score 75% or higher.)

3. Wait ~2 weeks to receive your confirmation email once the quizzes are graded and results submitted to LA CES.

    

PRESENTERS

Dr. Nadina Galle
Ecological Engineer; Author, The Nature of Our Cities

Dr. Nadina Galle is an ecological engineer, National Geographic Explorer, and founder of the Internet of Nature® framework, applied across five continents. She is the award-winning author of The Nature of Our Cities (HarperCollins, 2024), a #1 Amazon bestseller, hosts the Internet of Nature Podcast, and serves as Urbanist-in- Residence at the University of Toronto's School of Cities.

Dr. Owen Wiseman, ND
Director, NatureQuant

Dr. Owen Wiseman, ND is an award-winning medical advisor and international speaker helping redefine nature as public health infrastructure. His work with NatureQuant and the IUCN WCPA Health and Well-being Specialist Group connects clinical care, urban design, climate resilience, biodiversity, and healthier communities.