Dr. Maria Ignatieva
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Landscape Architecture, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Biography
Dr. Maria Ignatieva is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York. She received her bachelor and master's degrees from St. Petersburg Forest Technical Academy (Russia) and her doctoral degree from Moscow State University. In 1988-1989 Maria worked as the researcher of urban flora at the Komarov Botanic Institute of Russian Academy of Science. From 1989 until 1995 Maria was an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Botany at St. Petersburg Forest Technical Academy. From 1997 until 2001 Dr. Ignatieva taught in the Landscape Architecture Department at Lincoln University (Christchurch, New Zealand).

Maria' interests range widely, and include the urban flora and vegetation, ecological design, planting design, history of landscape architecture and historical parks restoration. Maria has been one of the initiators of pioneering research on the ecology of historical parks in St. Petersburg, on urban biotopes in Christchurch, New Zealand and recently on unification of urban floras and searching for sustainable planting design solutions in colonial cities. At SUNY ESF Dr. Ignatieva introduced the new seminar "Landscape and Urban Ecology" and helped to develop the "Urban Ecological Design Studio". Maria has published 50 scientific papers, reviews, reports and articles and the book "Botanical Excursions around the City". She presented 33 scientific papers in Russia, Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand. She is the member of Editorial Board of the journal "Urban Forestry and Urban Greening."

Selected Publications
Stewart G.H., & M.E. Ignatieva (Eds.). 2000 Urban biodiversity and ecology as a basis for holistic planning and design. Proceedings of a workshop held at Lincoln University 28/29 October 2000. Wickliffe Press Ltd, 110pp.

Ignatieva M., C. Meurk and C. Newell. 2000. Urban biotopes: the typical and unique habitats of city environments and their natural analogues. Pp. 46-53. In: Proceedings of Urban biodiversity and ecology as a basis for holistic planning and design Workshop, Stewart, G. and Ignatieva, M. (Ed).
Goryshina, T. and M. Ignatieva. 2000. Botanical excursions around the city. Chimisdat. St.Petersburg. Russia. 152p.

Ignatieva, M.E. 2002. Ecopolis-search for sustainable cities in Russia. In: The Sustainable City II: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. WIT Press. 2002. Pages 53-61.

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