Charles Andrew "Andy" Cole

About

Charles Andrew "Andy" Cole serves as a professor and the ecologist within the Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn State. He brings ecological understanding into the curriculum to enhance students' thinking and design skills. Cole teaches courses including basic ecology, plant identification, restoration ecology, and watershed stewardship. He is involved in various studios to assist students in applying ecological principles to their designs. With a background as a wetland ecologist and wildlife biologist, his research interests focus on restoration ecology as it applies to damaged landscapes, particularly wetlands, and the creation and development of wetland ecosystems. Cole is the director of E+D: Ecology Plus Design, a landscape architecture initiative that emphasizes research-activated design, graduate education in ecologically-based design, and outreach through symposia, speakers, workshops, and publications. This initiative aims to address complex environmental problems by integrating ecologists and designers into a research and education consortium that tackles ecological issues from site to regional scales. He served as the interim head of the department from January through July 2021.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Biology
• Archaeology
• Fishery
• Environmental science
• Ecology
• Geography
• Civil engineering
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Transferability of an HGM wetland classification scheme to a longitudinal gradient of the central Appalachian Mountains: Initial hydrological results

  Wetlands · 2008-05-21 · 21 citations

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• Regenerative landscape design: an integrative framework to enhance sustainability planning

  Ecology and Society · 2023 · 19 citations

  Addressing contemporary environmental and social crises requires solutions-based, systems-level changes. To achieve these changes, transdisciplinary research approaches are needed to align problem framing with solution deployment at landscape scales. However, practical frameworks to guide this work are lacking. Here we propose a new framework to help bridge this gap: regenerative landscape design (RLD). We define RLD as a process for finding pattern-based solutions, emphasizing cooperative, iter…

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• Comparison of Function of Created Wetlands of Two Age Classes in Central Pennsylvania

  Environmental Management · 2008-07-15 · 19 citations

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• Aboveground decomposition dynamics in riparian depression and slope wetlands of central Pennsylvania

  Aquatic Ecology · 2008-06-16 · 15 citations

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• Determining the feasibility and cost of an ecologically-based design for a mitigation wetland in central Pennsylvania, USA

  Landscape and Urban Planning · 2008-05-30 · 12 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Robert P. Brooks

  Pennsylvania State University

  19 shared

• Howard Butler

  Pennsylvania State University

  9 shared

• Jessica Mangus

  Pennsylvania State University

  8 shared

• Michael R. Kemme

  8 shared

• Kenneth Krach

  Pennsylvania State University

  8 shared

• Benjamin Burns

  7 shared

• Byung Gon Kim

  Kyung Hee University

  6 shared

• Denice H. Wardrop

  Pennsylvania State University

  6 shared

Labs

• Ecology plus Design (E+D)PI

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