Dr. Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno assumes the roll of MUSIC Assistant Director

Prof. Susskind and Dr. Karl are delighted to announce that Dr. Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno has accepted the position as MUSIC Assistant Director.

Dr. Vargas-Moreno is a MIT Postdoctoral Fellow leading and managing researchers on MUSIC's Everglades Climate Change project. He is also a Lecturer at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Dr. Vargas-Moreno holds a Dip. in Architecture from University of Costa Rica and both Masters and Doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he studied Landscape Planning and Ecology under Prof. Carl Steinitz. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Doctoral Fellows Program in Sustainability Science where he conducted research for the Science Environmental Planning Group under the supervision of Prof. William Clark.
Mr. Vargas-Moreno's prior research was focused in the development of rapid and participatory stakeholder-based appraisal methods employing geospatial information systems and technologies. His scholarly interest expands on the areas of environmental and development planning in highly contested and rapidly changing landscapes.

Mr. Vargas-Moreno serves as international moderator for the Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies. He served as Lecturer and Visiting Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Department of Landscape Architecture, and Visiting Professor at the Environmental Management and Tourism Planning Postgraduate Program of the University of Costa Rica. His teaching is primary concentrated in the theories and methods of regional landscape planning, visual assessment and Geographic Information Systems. Mr. Vargas-Moreno has served as member for both Harvard and MIT transdisciplinary research teams in several international locations, and works as a private consultant on environmental regional landscape, and visual landscape assessment.