SPEAKER: Brad Collett, Director, Tennessee RiverLine, University of Tennessee

TITLE: The Tennessee RiverLine Recreation System

ABSTRACT: Born as a UT Landscape Architecture student’s concept in 2016, the Tennessee RiverLine initiative today serves 56 cities and counties in three states in the shared pursuit of transforming how we as individuals, communities, and a region experience and steward our treasured Tennessee River.  During this talk, Brad will share insight to the initiative’s origins and the collaborative progress made to date toward realizing this transformational vision.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Brad Collett is Director of Tennessee RiverLine. Under Brad’s leadership, a team of UT Extension professionals collaborates with a consortium of partners across the region to realize the vision for North America’s next great regional trail system and the economic development, public health, resource stewardship, and equitable access benefits it promises future generations. As a faculty member in the UT School of Landscape Architecture, his teaching, research and creative activity centered on regional water resource stewardship through landscape planning and high-performance landscape design. While on faculty, he published two books: Low Impact Development: Opportunities for the PlanET Region, and HydroLIT: Southeast Tennessee Water Quality Playbook. Brad is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and The Ohio State University, was a 2016 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Slovenia, and is a licensed landscape architect in the state of Tennessee. He and his wife and two children live in Knoxville.

EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.

Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.