On February 20th, Associate Professor Jane Wolff — who helped found the award-winning project Gutter to Gulf — gave a lecture entitled "Two Stories about a Delta" at the Louisiana State University's Coastal Sustainability Studio. Wolff's talk dealt with the complexity of translating technical information about landscape design and engineering to facilitate the exchange of information between The Netherlands and New Orleans. Though these regions face similar challenges, researchers and policy makers must bridge a significant cultural gap to improve the sharing of information.

This presentation follows a similar one with same title that Wolff presented on October 4 of last year at the 17th annual DeVries-Van der Kooy Memorial Lecture in the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This lecture discussed the Dutch role in the rehabilitation of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Later that month, on October 16, she presented her work in progress on Bay Lexicon, an exhibit and book commissioned by the Exploratorium of San Francisco, at the panel "Not Just a Pretty Picture: The Synergy between Art and Science," at the 7th Biennial Bay–Delta Science Conference entitled Ecosystem Reconciliation: Realities Facing the San Francisco Estuary, in Sacramento, California.

Wolff was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, a charitable organization founded in 1966 by Ian McHarg and leading landscape architects of the time. LAF's mission is to support the preservation, improvement and enhancement of the environment. Founded in response to the urgent need for landscape architects to be a greater part of the solution to the environmental crisis, the organization promotes the capacity of landscape architects through research, scholarship, and leadership for sustainable landscape solutions. For more information about the foundation, please see www.lafoundation.org.