Jake Powell
Landscape & Environmental Plan
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Expertise
Gateway Natural Amenity Regions
Biography
Jake is a native of Utah, his professional career working in land planning and conservation has spanned the extents of the state and has fostered a deep connection to the people and landscapes that make Utah an inspiring place to live and work.
Teaching Interests
Jake’s teaching efforts aim to inspire students with an elevated understanding of both their potential and responsibility to use their training and education to make their world a better place. Jake works to help students and communities realize that collaborative planning and design efforts can address a variety of social, economic, and ecological challenges. His efforts are focused on empowering individuals and communities with the skills, tools, and confidence to use planning, design, and collaboration to bring about positive change.
Jake’s role as an Extension Specialist provides opportunities to engage citizens, communities, and practitioners in developing and disseminating educational materials and program as well as interdisciplinary, collaborative projects that utilize Landscape Architecture as a vehicle for positive change throughout the state.
Research Interests
Jake’s research interests include: grassroots watershed planning and implementation, artful rainwater design and stormwater management, water conservation through landscape design, large scale water management in the inter-mountain west, low impact development, trail and natural open space planning and design, and design elements that affect place attachment and nature connection. Jake works across the intermountain west with gateway communities through his efforts in the Gateway and Natural Amenity Region (GNAR) Initiative.
Awards
2022 Faculty Teaching Award of Merit , 2022
North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA)
2022 Individual Innovation and Creativity, 2022
National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals
Western Regional Winner: Innovation and Creativity: Individua, 2022
National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals
Campus RainWorks Challenge, Honorable mention award, Planning, 2022
Environmental Protection Administration (EPA)
New Specialist of the Year, 2021
Utah State University Extension
Community Engaged Faculty Presidential Award, 2020
Utah State University Center for Community Engagement
Publications | Abstracts
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- Powell, J., Rumore, D., Smith, J., Vaugeois, N., (2022). The GNAR Initiative: Empowering gateway communities through collaboration: Innovative and promising practices in sustainable tourism (volume 2)Innovative and promising practices in sustainable tourism (volume 2). VIUf Publications
- Sleipness, O., Powell, J., Curtis, K., (2022). Public-Private Partnerships: A Framework for National Park Gateway Community Development: Transformations in Protected Area Management and Gateway Communities: Alternative Approaches to Tourism and Community Engagement.
Publications | Book Chapters
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Publications | Fact Sheets
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Publications | Curriculum
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Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Sleipness, O., Powell, J., Anderson, D.T, Evans, D.T, McCann, R., Chen, S., (2019). Extension-based community engagement project contributions to landscape architecture core competencies and professional values. North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Journal, 63:2, 37-45.
Professional Journal
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Publications | Other
Newsletter
Other
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Teaching
Extension
Creative Works | Other
- R-cubed, Other, International Student Design Competition - Faculty Advisor - 2020
- A New Heart - Uniting a Divided Campus Through Innovative Green Infrastructure Design, Other, Design Competition Submission - 2018