Research Fellow
Center for Sustainable Communities
Associate Professor
Dept of Community & Regional Planning
Temple University

Mr. Nalbandian joined the Center for Sustainable Communities in March 2002 as a Research Fellow. He has more than 35 years of experience as practitioner, manager, consultant and teacher in earth and environmental sciences and environmental planning. He has directed and participated in: geologic and hydrologic investigations for the planning and design of major land development projects in the U.S. and abroad; environmental investigations and remediation of hundreds of industrial and commercial facilities; major environmental impact studies of regional transportation systems; policy formulations, planning and implementation for mined land reclamation programs and projects; and geological and geochemical exploration for metallic ores and petroleum in the U.S., Canada and Africa. Mr. Nalbandian was Visiting Professor at the University of Texas and University of Pennsylvania and Associate Professor of Planning at Howard University.

Mr. Nalbandian recently consulted to the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. on the stormwater management component of the restoration plan for the Olmsted Woods, part of the Cathedral enclave. Together with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and Andropogon Associates, he has conducted a series of environmental studies for a new master plan for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campuses. He was a member of the core team that planned the reuse of Denver's Stapleton International Airport, consulting on geology, hydrology, geomorphology, hazardous waste investigations and remediation plans. He has consulted to the World Bank on metropolitan planning projects in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Mumbai (Bombay), India. From 1988 through 1996, Mr. Nalbandian coordinated and directed more than 200 environmental investigations and remediation projects for Ford Motor Company and its subsidiaries at sites in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe. In Woodlands, Texas, a 17,000-acre new town for 120,000 residents near Houston, he recommended a "natural" storm drainage system that saved $14.2 million in front end construction costs and comprises the major part of the town's open space.