Mary Roderick

Mary Roderick is an affiliate professor in the Department of Urban Design & Planning and a regional planner with the Land of Sky Regional Council in western North Carolina. Her areas of specialization are watershed restoration and stormwater management. She contributed to planning and design for the Duwamish River Superfund site cleanup as well as the waterfront redevelopment and seawall redesign projects in Seattle. While broadly interested in social-ecological systems, Roderick’s work is specifically concerned with climate change and its effects on water resources. She has a master’s degree in community planning with an environmental specialization from the University of Cincinnati and earned a Ph.D. in urban design and planning from the University of Washington.