Green infrastructure can be considered a conceptual framework for understanding the valuable services nature provides the human environment. Landscape architects use nature to manage water from storms, create new wildlife habitat, and make the built environment greener. At all scales, green infrastructure provides real ecological, economic, and social benefits.

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Help me understand how peoples' preferences for landscapes change with the seasons.

As an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Temple University, I've been studying landscape preferences for the last two years-in other words, how much people like or dislike landscapes based upon the content and spatial configuration of elements within. Currently, I want to understand how seasonal plant changes may affect four factors that have been used to predict visual landscape preferences.

I am seeking twenty minutes of twelve chapter members' time to view and rate sixty color photographs on a web page using definitions of the four factors-complexity, coherence, mystery, and legibility-and a five-point scale expressing how present the factor is in each photograph.

Program
The PA–DE ASLA Chapter will award one (1) scholarship to at least one (1) student who is enrolled in the landscape architecture programs at universities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the State of Delaware.  Scholarship recipients will receive $1,000 toward the registration, travel, and accommodation to attend a National ASLA Meeting and Expo.

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Update to the Board's Continuing Education Requirements 

12 PDH (CEU's) of the required 24 PDH (CEU's) may be obtained via electronic media

Licenses expire May 31 of every odd-numbered year. Licensees are required to meet the Board's continuing education requirement as a condition for renewal of their licenses.

** PLEASE NOTE: Under the recently amended Law (Act 24 of 2009), All Licensees will be required to obtain 24 hours of continuing education, completed in accordance with the Board's regulations, beginning June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2013 as a condition of the renewal of their license for the 2013-2015 Biennial period.

** The State Board of Landscape Architects (Board) amends §15.12  of the Board's regulations (relating to fees). The final-form rulemaking increases the biennial license renewal fees for landscape architects from $125 to $194. The new biennial renewal fees will take effect for the biennial period beginning June 1, 2011.

The Board office will mail out renewal reminders to your address of record, approximately 60 days prior to the expiration date of your license. You will need to follow the instructions provided in the reminder to renew your license on-line or to obtain a paper renewal application.  

PA DE ASLA is not the agency that regulates continuing education.  For information on this, please visit the State Board of Landscape Architects.

Here is the link to the board's web site

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