Eric A. Bernard, is a licensed Landscape Architect and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Texas Tech. Teaching and research focus on holistic ecological planning and design integrating cutting edge GIS-GIScience, GeoDesign and LiDAR into multi-dimensional solutions spanning scales and system dynamics. Works are recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects (Honor Award Ecology-Sustainability-Design Workshop, 2000), esri (2005 Special Achievement Award in GIS and 2013 GeoDesign Best Lightning Talk Award).