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 The Jury
Jennifer Bowles
Jennifer Bowles is a trustee of the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society and a Landscape Architect practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Topher Delaney
Topher Delaney received her B.A. in Landscape Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley after studying cultural anthropology and philosophy at Barnard College. Ms. Delaney’s thirty five year career as an environmental artist and builder has encompassed a wide breadth of projects which focus on the development of cultural narratives scribed into exterior land forms, reflecting the values of the personal (residential) and the communal (institutional). The sites range in scale from the intimate to the expansive, corporate rooftop gardens, sanctuary gardens for medical facilities, and public art installations. The work of Ms. Delaney’s studio has been exhibited internationally. Currently, SEAM Studio’s installations are on view at Gunnebo House and Gardens, Gothenburg, Sweden: Shipping News – Distribution of Ideas, Gunnebo to Go, and the Orangery – A house built of glass bottles. Current works in progress focus on coded information within the narrative of the landscape: a public art installation based in San Francisco for the Club Quarters Hotel, investigations of the vocabulary of agriculture at Cade Winery, and the Chappell Farm in Davis California, and the Narducci Farm in Napa, California; a permanent installation of fire and mirrors contained by stainless steel walls, and a series of residential installations using innovative materials such as fire, colored mirrors, dichroic glass, and recycled plastics. These projects, various symbols and forms – braille, informational markers, Morse code, and sculptural icons – are translated into the physical text of the installation to be revealed only through personal knowledge and experience. Please refer to www.tdelaney.com for current updates.
Jean DeMouthe
Dr. Jean DeMouthe is a geologist with the California Academy of Sciences. She is senior collections manager for the geologic collections, which include fossils, minerals, gems and meteorites. She also teaches in the graduate Museum Studies program at San Francisco State University, and is Acting County Geologist for San Mateo County. During her 35 years at the Academy, Jean has taught numerous classes, led field trips, and worked on exhibits in various geologic subjects. She is an avid gardener, and assisted with the Arboretum’s recent renovation of the Ancient Plant Garden.
Mary Margaret Jones
Mary Margaret Jones is Sr. Principal and President of Hargreaves Associates, a landscape architecture and planning firm renowned for its strong design and innovative work on reclaimed urban sites, waterfronts and university campuses. The firm's work has received dozens of national design awards since its inception in 1985 and is published and exhibited internationally. As president, Mary Margaret leads the firm's four offices in San Francisco, California, New York, New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, U.K. She has been the Sr. Principal-in-Charge for such award winning projects as the Sydney Olympics 2000 public domain, the University of Cincinnati master plan and Crissy Field in San Francisco's Presidio. Mary Margaret lectures widely to university and professional institutions and has served on juries such as the American Society of Landscape Architects' excellence in design awards, and the 55 Water Street design competition in downtown New York. Mary Margaret is a past Visiting Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Design School and a member of the National Advisory Council for the Mayors' Institute on City Design. She is the 1998 Prince Charitable Trust's Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a member of the Board of Trustees. In 2006 Mary Margaret was named Fellow by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Paul Licht
Paul Licht joined the Department of Zoology (later Integrative Biology) at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964 with specialization in environmental physiology and endocrinology. He served as the Chair of the Department from 1975-1981. Paul received the first annual award in Comparative Physiology and was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was appointed a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. After 35 years of teaching and research with over 300 publications in his research fields, he was appointed as Dean of Biology and then the Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science from 1994-2002. Following retirement from the faculty in 2003, he was invited to be the Director of the University of California Botanical Garden, where he has served for the past six years.
Patricia J. Duncan Raven
A lifelong fascination with plants and gardening has brought Dr. Patricia Duncan Raven to the professional world of horticulture. Propagating plants at the age of six, she followed her love into undergraduate studies in Botany at Queens University in her home town of Charlotte, NC. Dr. Raven pursued graduate studies in horticulture at North Carolina State University and earned her doctorate at The Ohio State University in 1984. She has pursued a thirty year career in public horticulture that has led her to a variety of positions of increasing importance. While with the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, she first served as Deputy Director at Planting Fields Arboretum, next as Director of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum and last at Caumsett State Historic Park, all Frederick Law Olmstead gardens on Long Island. She then served as the Executive Director of Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Houston, Texas from 1998 until she married Missouri Botanical Garden President Peter Raven in 2001.
Over the course of her career, Dr. Raven has won numerous awards for public service in the field of horticulture. Pat has taught many courses in botany and horticulture for public and university audiences and won acclaim for her administrative abilities. She has published dozens of scientific and popular articles and currently writes a gardening column for the Ladue News. As First Lady of the Missouri Botanical Garden, she travels widely with her husband Peter and serves the Garden as a public ambassador for diverse audiences. Pat is an award-winning photographer whose work illustrates her own lectures and Peter's presentations as well. She has assisted with many different aspects of the Garden's programs and has become a fixture of its activities in St. Louis.
Peter Raven
Peter H. Raven is President of the Missouri Botanical Garden and George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis. He is widely known as one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity. Over more than 37 years, Dr. Raven has led the development of the Missouri Botanical Garden into a world-class center for botanical research, education, and horticulture display.
The Missouri Botanical Garden's splendid horticultural displays attract more than 750,000 visitors annually, including visitors to St. Louis from around the United States and the world. At the Shaw Nature Reserve, in the foothills of the Ozarks; the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House; and the EarthWays Center for Resource Efficiency, additional displays and programs are offered that enhance the Garden's overall presentation of attractions to the public.
Dr. Raven's has been recognized with a number of horticultural awards, including the Garden Club of America's Achievement Medal (1978) and Frances K. Hutchinson Medal (1991); Willdenow Medal, Berlin Botanical Garden (1979); the National Garden Clubs Gold Seal Medal (1982); Hutchinson Medal, Chicago Horticultural Society (1986); Robert Allerton Medal, National Tropical Botanical Garden (1988); Silver Medal, Leiden University Botanical Garden (1990); Liberty Hyde Bailey Medal, American Horticultural Society (1996); Award of Merit, American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (1996); and the Gold Veitch Memorial Medal, Royal Horticultural Society (2004); Scott Medal and Award, The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College (2009).
Under Dr. Raven's leadership, the Missouri Botanical Garden has become a leader in botanical research in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America as well. The Garden's education program in the St. Louis region reaches more than 100,000 students each year and provides professional development for teachers. With his encouragement, the headquarters of the Center for Plant Conservation moved to the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1992, and that of the Botanical Society of America in 2001.
Dr. Raven's service-related activities include his role as a Trustee of the National Geographic Society and the Chairmanship of the Society's Committee for Research and Exploration.
Described by TIME magazine as a “Hero for the Planet,” Dr. Raven champions research around the world to preserve endangered plants and is a leading advocate for conservation and a sustainable environment. In recognition of his work in science and conservation, Dr. Raven is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards other than those in the field of horticulture, including the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan; Environmental Prize of the Institute de la Vie; Volvo Environment Prize; the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; the Sasakawa Environment Prize; and the International Cosmos Prize, Osaka. In 2001, he received from the President of the United States the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in this country.
Dr. Raven served for 12 years as Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected a member in 1977. He is also a member of the academies of science in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, the U.K. (the Royal Society), and the national academies of several other countries, as well as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Third World Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Raven devotes a good deal of his time to his duties as co-editor of the Flora of China, a joint Chinese-American international project that is leading to a contemporary account on all the plants of China. He has written numerous books and publications, both popular and scientific, including Biology of Plants (co-authored with Ray Evert and Susan Eichhorn, W. H. Freeman and Company/Worth Publishers, New York), the internationally best-selling textbook in botany, now in its seventh edition is (2006), and Environment (co authored with Linda Berg, Saunders College Publishing, Pennsylvania), a leading textbook on the environment.
Dr. Raven received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 after completing his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow, and has received honorary degrees from universities in this country and throughout the world, most recently from Yale University (2007) and Michigan State University (2008).
Sandra Robins
Sandra Robins is a staff educator at the Exploratorium where she has worked since transitioning from being a math and science teacher for middle school students. Her teaching experience is broad. It includes time teaching both in English and in Spanish: as a 3rd grade bilingual teacher, 6th 7th and 8th grade in a center for new immigrants, 6th, 7th and 8th grade for English speakers, math and science for adults, and sociology at the college level. She also spent several years doing professional development in math for a K-8 district. Her interests include singing in a chorus, writing music, and graphic design.
Zahid Sardar
Zahid Sardar is a San Francisco editor, writer and author specializing in interiors, architecture and design and his articles have appeared in national magazines including Western Interiors & Design and Landscape Architecture. He has been the Design Editor of San Francisco Chronicle for a decade and his magazine and home & garden articles have appeared on Sundays in the Examiner and Chronicle for two decades. He has lectured on garden design for UC Berkeley Extension, the Strybing Arboretum and the Garden Conservancy and has sat on design juries for AIA SF, AIA Los Angeles and for the ASLA San Francisco. He is the author of San Francisco Modern, Chronicle Books. His latest book published last fall is New Garden Design, Gibbs Smith.
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