Travis Flohr

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Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture

Flohr applies his training in landscape architecture and urban and regional planning to examine how we can design, plan, and manage our landscapes to sustain mutually beneficial relationships between people and ecological systems. His work broadly addresses the question: how can communities and households, adapt to and mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events and the degradation of ecosystems to ensure the continuation of mutually beneficial ecosystem services? Due to the inter- and intra-system complexities of humans, climate, weather, built environment, and ecosystems, Flohr favors a mixed spatial-methods research approach to ensure the inter- and intra-system relationships are placed in their spatial context, human, and natural landscape patterns, and different dimensions of the issue(s) under analysis. His approach has led to constructive collaborations with colleagues and students across Penn State and beyond.

Flohr’s research, teaching, and service are connected and difficult to disentangle. His work covers three thematic areas: 1) Ecology plus Design, 2) spatial design computing, and 3) design education and pedagogy.

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Projects

Recent Publications

Exploring a Just and Diverse Urban Forests’ Capacity for Mitigating Future Mean Radiant Temperatures

Flohr, T., Garcia, L., Figueiredo, C., Heris, M., Hoffman, M., Lindeman, J., Wu, H. & Richardson, L., 2024, In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. 2024, 9, p. 302-313 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Investigating New York City’s Cool Roof Program Implementation Using Remote Sensing Through an Environmental Justice Lens

Flohr, T., Heris, M., George, R. & Avila, A., 2023, In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. 2023, 8, p. 65-74 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Spatial Indices for Convivial Greenstreets

Kriehn, E., Tamminga, K. & Flohr, T., Dec 2023, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 15, 24, 16781.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

An ENVI-met Simulation Data Pipeline for Evaluating Urban Tree Patterns Impact on Urban Micro-climate

Flohr, T., Heris, M. & Derycke, E., 2022, In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. 2022, 7, p. 538-548 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Virtual studio 1.0: A virtual tacit-forward learning management framework

Flohr, T., Tamminga, K. & Johnson, T., 2021, In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. 2021, 6, p. 476-486 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Creating virtual environments in support of on-line problem-based learning

Flohr, T., Sirek, D. & Tredinnick, R., 2020, In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. 2020, 5, p. 386-394 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Deep decarbonization and renewable energy in the Appalachian Mountains (DDREAM): a socio-ecological systems approach to evaluating ecological governance

Mainzer, S. P., Cole, C. A. & Flohr, T., Oct 2019, In: Socio-Ecological Practice Research. 1, 3-4, p. 249-263 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A Geodesign approach to environmental design education: Framing the pedagogy, evaluating the results

Muller, B. & Flohr, T., Dec 1 2016, In: Landscape and Urban Planning. 156, p. 101-117 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Access to parks for youth as an environmental justice issue: Access inequalities and possible solutions

Rigolon, A. & Flohr, T. L., 2014, In: Buildings. 4, 2, p. 69-94 26 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A landscape architect's review of building information modeling technology

Flohr, T., 2011, In: Landscape Journal. 30, 1, p. 169-170 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review