Dr. Rick leBrasseur is an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Dalhousie University. My research focuses on the relationship between individuals, communities, and the natural environment. Rick researches these connections using spatial and statistical tools to better understand how the natural world impacts people’s socio-emotional wellbeing.

Dr. leBrasseur completed his PhD at The University of Edinburgh working closely with Dr. Catharine Ward-Thompson. He also completed a Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan serving as a Research Assistant to Dr. Rachel Kaplan and a Bachelors in Landscape Architect from the University of Connecticut.

Prior to his arrival at Dalhousie University he was Program Developer and Director of UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary Sustainable Environmental Design & Stewardship Extension Program. He then served as the Sumner Margetts Professor of Landscape Architecture at Utah State University and subsequently led The Center for Green Infrastructure Design (CGID) within the University of Utah’s City & Metropolitan Planning Department. 

Prior to entering academia, Rick contributed over 20 years in professional practice as a landscape urbanist in the United States with Charles Anderson Atelier, Hargreaves Associates, EDAW/AECOM, and CRJA developing global projects and contextual socio-ecological strategies.  Richard collaborated on internationally recognized and award winning projects including the Olympic Sculpture Park (CAA), the General Motors Tech Center (Hargreaves), and Ft. Devens Federal Medical Center (CRJA).

Richard’s research assesses on the impacts of urbanizing landscapes upon human-based ecosystem services and their corresponding interstitial green structures.  He studies human-environment interactions through the lens of environmental psychology in order to provide evidence-based design solutions. His teaching weaves together landscape urbanism, hybrid infrastructures, and human ecology and in order to inform eco-spatial relationships.