MARY-ELLEN TYLER
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Watch as Mary-Ellen Tyler describes the concepts of time, technology, and teaching.
Watch as Mary-Ellen Tyler describes the concepts of time, technology, and teaching.
Profile
Dr. Mary-Ellen Tyler was dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary from 1 September 1998 until 30 June 2003. She holds interdisciplinary graduate degrees at the master’s and PhD levels in environmental science and natural resource management. Dr. Tyler has worked in both the private and public sectors as an environmental planner and ecologist and spent ten years with the federal government in British Columbia working with Indian and Northern Affairs on resource development, impacts assessment, local government development and intergovernmental resource management issues related to comprehensive land claims negotiations. During her academic career, she has held tenured academic appointments at both the University of Waterloo and the University of Manitoba, and has taught in the areas of urban and regional planning, landscape architecture and environmental design. Prior to moving to Calgary in 1998, Dr. Tyler was associate dean of architecture at the University of Manitoba and acted as head of the Department of Environmental Design and Interior Design. She is currently a professor and associate dean of Landscape and Planning at the University of Calgary. Her current areas of research, scholarship and professional practice are urban ecology, sustainable urban design, urban watershed management, ecological restoration, and urban environmental management.