Amy Motzny

Research Scientist, Urban Design Lab

Amy Motzny holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and is currently a full-time Research Scientist working jointly with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Earth Institute’s Urban Design Lab. She is part of a multidisciplinary group of researchers, scientists, and practitioners investigating urban green infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies. Her research focuses on the development of spatial modeling tools for evaluating ecosystem service benefits of urban green infrastructure and she is particularly interested in the socio-cultural services that GI can provide to communities.

B.A. Environmental Science, Specialization in Spatial Information Processing, 2008; M.S. Landscape Architecture, University of Michigan, 2015