WENDY MCWILLIAM Ph.D., M.L.A.

*** ******* ****** *****,

Guelph, Ontario

N1H 4W5

519-***-****

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Dr. Wendy McWilliam is an Environmental major corporate partners to transform the lands

planner, Landscape designer, educator and surrounding Toronto Pearson Airport into an

researcher. eco-business zone. This innovative project

developed sustainable energy, water and

Wendy provides environmental planning and waste systems through strategic and

landscape architecture services to public and collaborative management of system inputs

private sectors. Her firm, McWilliam between businesses and municipal

Landscape Design and Environmental infrastructure (e.g. the waste material of one

Planning, was launched in 2009. Services sector or business becomes the inputs for

include environmental planning and policy another).

development, landscape restoration, park and

open space design, and residential design. At the University of Waterloo she assisted

teaching courses in the preparation of Official

Wendy specializes in urban ecological and Plans, the Ontario Municipal Board (a tribunal

sustainable design and planning in support of that hears applications and appeals to planning

urban green space. She has published a book, disputes), professional planning practice, and

The Housing-Forest Interface, and a number of research methods.

papers on designing and planning for the

protection of urban forested natural systems. At the University of Guelph, she has taught

studio and lecture-based courses that address

At the Toronto and Region Conservation multiple spatial scales of design. She currently

Authority, TRCA, she worked in development holds a post-doctorate position and co-teaches

review and environmental policy development. Landscape Analysis in the Landscape

She reviewed development proposals at both Architecture Department.

site and subdivision spatial scales. She

developed low impact Best Management E DUCATION

Practices for site planning to enhance and

protect adjacent green areas from development 2007 Ph.D. Planning, University of Waterloo,

impacts. Ontario

She was instrumental in the development of 2000 Master of Landscape Architecture,

one of TRCA's first development monitoring Guelph University, Ontario

programs to determine the long term impacts of

a subdivision development on urban green 1996 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture,

systems. University of British Columbia, British

Columbia

As a policy planner she led the development of

sustainable community policies for TRCA's C AREER EXPERIENCE

nine watersheds. Policies were developed on

systems associated with energy and air, water,

2009- McWilliam Landscape Design

plant and wildlife habitat, waste, urban

and Environmental Planning

agriculture, movement, recreation and cultural

heritage.

Lecturer, University of Guelph

Wendy participated in Partners in Project

Green, a group led by TRCA that worked with

WENDY MCWILLIAM Ph.D., M.L.A.

133 Glasgow Street North,

Guelph, Ontario

N1H 4W5

519-***-****

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2008-2009 Environmental Planner, Toronto Booth Residence Master Plan (2009)

and Region Conservation

Authority McWilliam Residence Master Plan (2009)

PUBLICATIONS

2008 Lecturer, School of Landscape

Architecture, University of

Guelph McWilliam, W.J. 2010. Research foundations:

Aggregate Site Rehabilitation. Ground 11.

2001-2005 Assistant Lecturer, School of

Planning, University of McWilliam, W.J., Eagles, P.F.J., Seasons, M,

Waterloo Brown, R. (In Press). Effectiveness of

boundary structures in limiting residential

2003 Environmental Planner, Paul encroachment into urban forests. Landscape

F.J. Eagles Planning Ltd. Research.

1999-2000 Assistant teacher, School of McWilliam, W.J., Eagles, P.F.J., Seasons, M,

Environmental Design and Rural Brown, R. 2010. Assessing the degradation

Development, University of effects of local residents on urban forests in

Guelph Ontario, Canada. Arboriculture and Urban

Forestry 36 (6). 253-260.

1999 Consultant, community design

charette for Carlisle, Ontario. McWilliam, W.J., Eagles, P., Seasons, M.,

Brown, R. 2010. The housing-forest interface:

1997-1998 Landscape Architectural Intern, Testing structural approaches for protecting

Harrington & Hoyle Landscape suburban natural systems following

Architects Ltd., Cambridge, development. Urban Forestry & Urban

Ontario. Greening 9, 145-159.

1996-1997 Freelance Landscape McWilliam, W.J. 2009. The Housing-Forest

Consultant (for Ecologistics Ltd., Interface: Structural Approaches to Protecting

Ecoplans Ltd., and Green Urban Natural Areas Post Development.

Scheels Pidgeon Planning Saarvrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr.

Consultants) Muller.

RECENT DESIGN PRACTICE McWilliam, W.J., Brown, R. 2001. Effects of a

typical housing development on bird species

Lamond Subdivison Landscape Plan, Fergus, diversity in a forest fragment in Ontario,

Canada. Landscape Research. 26 (4). 407-

Ontario (2010-)

419.

Elm Street Landfill Restoration Planting Plan,

Port Colborne, Ontario (2010) Eagles, P.FJ.,Van de Lands, R., and

McWilliam, W. 2003. Comments on the Horn

Ventures International Inc. proposal. Paul F. J.

Jacobson-Sohn Residence Master Plan (2010)

Eagles Planning Ltd., Branchton, Ontario. 9 pp.

McIlroy-Young Residence Master Plan (2010)

Budzich Cliff and Floodplain Restoration Plan

(2009)

WENDY MCWILLIAM Ph.D., M.L.A.

133 Glasgow Street North,

Guelph, Ontario

N1H 4W5

519-***-****

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McWilliam, W.J. 2006. Are municipal planning

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND

policies effective in mitigating residential

REFEREED PROCEEDINGS

activity edge effects within urban/suburban

McWilliam, W. J. 2009. Efficacy of boundary

woodlands? Leading Edge 2006 Conference,

designs for the long term protection of urban

Niagara Escarpment Commission, Burlington,

Ontario.

woodland values from adjacent residential land

uses. Council of Educators in Landscape

McWilliam, W.J. 2001. Effects of a typical

Architecture, Tucson, Arizona

housing development on bird species diversity

in a forest fragment in Ontario, Canada.

McWilliam, W. J. 2008. Are Ontario's

Council of Educators in Landscape

municipal official and secondary plan policies

Architecture, University of Guelph, Guelph,

sufficient for protecting their natural systems in

Ontario

the long term? ACSP-AESOP 4th Joint

Congress, Chicago, Illinois.

A WARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

McWilliam, W.J. 2008. Residential

encroachment within suburban forests: Are 2005/2006 CHMC External Research Grant

planning policies sufficient for protecting 2003/2004 Robert Starbird Dorney Award

woodlands for the long term? International 2002/2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Symposium on Society & Resource 2001 University of Waterloo Entrance

Management, Burlington, Vermont. Scholarship

1999 Doug and Esther Ormrod

McWilliam, W.J. 2007. Residential Scholarship

encroachment within suburban forests: Are 1998 Arthur D. Latornell Graduate

Ontario municipal policies sufficient for Scholarship

protecting suburban forested natural areas for 1998 Ontario Agricultural College

the long term? Ontario Professional Planners Soden Scholarship

Institute Conference, Town of Blue Mountain, 1996 Canadian Society of Landscape

Ontario. Architecture Award of Merit

1992 D.M. Group Scholarship

McWilliam, W.J. 2007. Residential 1991 Charles A. and Jane C. Banks

encroachment within suburban forests: Are Foundation Scholarship

Ontario municipal policies sufficient for

protecting suburban forested natural areas for PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

the long term? Ontario Environmental Advisory

Committees symposium, Kitchener, Ontario. Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects

McWilliam, W.J. 2006. Are municipal planning Ontario Professional Planners Institute

policies effective in mitigating residential Canadian Institute of Planners

activity edge effects within urban/suburban

woodlands? Council of Educators in LANGUAGES

Landscape Architecture, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. English/French

WENDY MCWILLIAM Ph.D., M.L.A.

133 Glasgow Street North,

Guelph, Ontario

N1H 4W5

519-***-****

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5) Dr. Paul F.J. Eagles, Professor,

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Department of Recreation and Leisure

Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario

2010 Guelph Urban Forest Friends

519-***-**** X 2716

Advisory Board

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2009- Focus On Nature Advisory

Committee

1998-2000 Mill Creek Restoration Steering

Committee

COMPUTER GRAPHIC SKILLS

AutoCAD

Sketchup

Adobe Creative Suite

GIS

REFERENCES

1) Ms. Carolyn Woodland, Director

Planning and Development, Toronto

and Region Conservation Authority

416-***-**** X 5214

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2) Mr. David Burnett, Manager of Regional

and Provincial Policy, Toronto and

Region Conservation Authority,

(416) 661 - 6600 X 5361

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3) Dr. Robert Brown, Professor,

Landscape Architecture, University of

Guelph, Ontario

519-***-**** X 53619

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4) Dr. Mark Seasons, Associate Professor,

School of Planning, University of

Waterloo, Ontario

519-***-**** X 5922

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