The Team

The CRDS brings together educators, scientists, engineers, designers, and students to study and respond to issues affecting Delaware’s coastlines and coastal communities. Students and faculty from the University of Delaware as well as community members and sponsor organizations all contribute to the CRDS’s efforts to research our coast’s biggest issues and work toward practical and sustainable solutions for the future.

Below is a list of the faculty and other collaborators who are based at the University of Delaware who assist in the projects that the CRDS helps with across the state.

Zach Hammaker – Principal

Ed Lewandowski – Principal & Co-Founder

Ben Muldrow – Creative Director

Current CRDS Designers 

DJ Bromley UD landscape architecture student

Chris Fettke von Koeckritz UD landscape architecture student

Leigh Muldrow UD landscape architecture student

Ilana Shmukler UD civil engineering student

Ryan McCune UD environmental and civil engineering student

Former CRDS student designers:

Emma Ruggiero UD landscape architecture (’19), Currently UD Plant & Soil Sciences graduate student

Joshua Gainey UD landscape architecture (’20), currently employed at Sposato Landscaping

Mark Switlitski UD civil engineering (’19), currently employed at Dewberry

Olivia Boon UD landscape architecture (’21), currently Penn State MLA graduate student

Shannon Brown UD environmental engineering (’19), currently a graduate student in the geoscience program at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Janelle Skaden UD civil engineering (’19), currently a graduate student in the ocean engineering program at the University of Rhode Island.

Associates:

Anna Wik UD Landscape Architecture Faculty

Tina Callahan  Delaware Environmental Monitoring & Analysis Center

Jon Cox  UD Art & Design Faculty

Jame McCray  Delaware Sea Grant

Catherine Morrissey  Center for Historic Architecture & Design

Greg Shelnutt  Art & Design

Danielle Swallow  Delaware Sea Grant

Jenn Volk  UD CANR/Cooperative Extension

Before the internship started, they were asked to complete several pre-reflection questions about their expectations of working in an interdisciplinary team. Here is one reflection by Shannon Brown that encapsulates the value of interdisciplinary work:

“Each discipline has a different skill set and process. I believe sharing these processes will strengthen both parties. Each process was developed to suit each discipline, but when there is collaboration in a project it is important to combine multiple disciplines in a way that highlights the strengths of each. I think combining both the processes and skill sets of landscape architecture and engineering will prove to be very valuable. While the engineer’s point of view is more practical and rigid, the landscape architectural perspective is more fluid and adaptive. I think that there are strengths to both of these viewpoints, but the strongest is the combination. When you combine both of these outlooks, it is like using a decision matrix that weighs feasibility and creativity.” – Shannon Brown, January 11, 2019

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