Brendan Harmon

Publications

Books

Harmon, Brendan. 2024. Computational Design for Landscape Architects. Routledge. isbn: 9781032407050.

Petrasova, Anna, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, and Helena Mitasova. 2018. Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS. 2nd ed. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89303-7.

Petrasova, Anna, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, and Helena Mitasova. 2015. Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS. 1st ed. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25775-4.


Papers

Harmon, Brendan and Hye Yeon Nam. 2024. “3D Printing Heritage Trees”. In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 9, pp. 605–613. doi: 10.14627/537752055.

Harmon, Brendan and Hye Yeon Nam. 2023. “Ecological Robotics”. In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 8, pp. 486–492. doi: 10.14627/537740051.

Nam, Hye Yeon, Brendan Harmon, Ka Hei Cheng, and Samira Awad. 2023. “Contingent Dreams”. In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. TEI ’23. Warsaw, Poland: Association for Computing Machinery. isbn: 9781450399777. doi: 10.1145/3569009.3576176.

Nam, Hye Yeon, JaNiece Campbell, Andrew M. Webb, and Brendan Harmon. 2023. “FloraWear: Wearable Living Interface”. In: TEI ’23. Warsaw, Poland: Association for Computing Machinery. isbn: 9781450399777. doi: 10.1145/3569009.3572801.

Nam, Hye Yeon, Andrew Webb, Raymond Tucker, and Harmon, Brendan (2023). “Code to Cope: Supporting Self-Care by Integrating Creative Coding and Coping Mechanisms”. In: Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition. C&C ’23. Virtual Event, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 162–170. doi: 10.1145/3591196.3593335.

Harmon, Brendan A, Hye Yeon Nam, Hunter Gilbert, and Nasrin Iravani. 2022. “Living Typography: Robotically Printing a Living Typeface”. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. New Orleans, LA, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519894.

Harmon, Brendan A and Nicholas Serrano. 2022. “Point Cloud Aesthetics”. In: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 7, pp. 335–344. doi: 10.14627/537724033.

Sedghikhanshir, Alireza, Yimin Zhu, Yan Chen, and Brendan A Harmon. 2022. “Exploring the Impact of Green Walls on Occupant Thermal State in Immersive Virtual Environment”. In: Sustainability 14.3. doi: 10.3390/su14031840.

Harmon, Brendan A, Hye Yeon Nam, and Michael Pasquier. 2021. “Shifting Datum: A Critical Inquiry into Coastal Change”. In: Creativity and Cognition. C&C ’21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3450741.3466849.

Smith, Devin F, Goldsmith, Steven T, Harmon, Brendan A Harmon, Russell S, and Espinosa, Jorge A. 2020. “Physical Controls and ENSO Event Influence on Weathering in the Panama Canal Watershed.” Scientific Reports 10(1): 10861. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67797-7.

Harmon, Brendan A, Helena Mitasova, Anna Petrasova, and Vaclav Petras. 2019. “r.sim.terrain 1.0: a landscape evolution model with dynamic hydrology.” Geoscientific Model Development, 12(7), 2837–2854. doi: 10.5194/gmd-12-2837-2019.

Millar, Garrett C, Payam Tabrizian, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Brendan Harmon, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2018. “Tangible Landscape : A Hands-on Method for Teaching Terrain Analysis.” CHI ’18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173954.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, and Ross Meentemeyer. 2018. “Tangible Topographic Modeling for Landscape Architects.” International Journal of Architectural Computing. doi: 10.1177/1478077117749959.

Tabrizian, Payam, Brendan A Harmon, Anna Petrasova, Helena Mitasova, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2017. “Tangible Immersion for Ecological Design.” In ACADIA 17: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, 600–609. Cambridge, MA. url: http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/Show&_id=caadria2010_044/Show?acadia17_600.

Tonini, Francesco, Douglas Shoemaker, Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Richard Cobb, Helena Mitasova, and Ross Meentemeyer. 2017. “Tangible Geospatial Modeling for Collaborative Solutions to Invasive Species Management.” Environmental Modelling & Software 92. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.02.020.

Smith, Devin F., Brendan A. Harmon, Jorge Espinosa, Steven T. Goldsmith, and Russell S. Harmon. 2017. “Evaluation of Climatic and Physical Controls and the Influence of ENSO Events on Long-Term Weathering and CO2 Consumption across the Panama Canal Watershed.” In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49. Seattle, Washington. doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-298750.

Tabrizian, Payam, Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, and Ross Meentemeyer. 2016. “Immersive Tangible Geospatial Modeling.” In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 88:1–88:4. GIS ’16. San Francisco, CA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2996913.2996950.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, and Helena Mitasova. 2016. “Computational Landscape Architecture: Procedural, Tangible, and Open Landscapes.” In Innovations in Landscape Architecture, edited by Jonathan R Anderson and Daniel Ortega. Routledge. url: https://www.routledge.com/Innovations-in-Landscape-Architecture/Anderson-Ortega/p/book/9781138860681.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2016. “Embodied Spatial Thinking in Tangible Computing.” In TEI ’16: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2839462.2854103.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2016. “Tangible Landscape: Cognitively Grasping the Flow of Water.” ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B2: 647–65. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B2-647-2016.

Harmon, R.S., G. Wörner, S.T. Goldsmith, B.A. Harmon, C.B. Gardner, W. Berry Lyons, F.L. Ogden, et al. 2016. “Linking Silicate Weathering to Riverine Geochemistry-A Case Study from a Mountainous Tropical Setting in West-Central Panama.” Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 128 (11–12). doi: 10.1130/B31388.1.

Petrasova, A., V. Petras, D. Van Berkel, B.A. Harmon, H. Mitasova, and R.K. Meentemeyer. 2016. “Open Source Approach to Urban Growth Simulation.” In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. Vol. 41. doi: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XLI-B7-953-2016.

Petras, Vaclav, Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Ross Meentemeyer, and Helena Mitasova. 2015. “Integrating Free and Open Source Solutions into Geospatial Science Education.” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4 (2): 942–56. doi: 10.3390/ijgi4020942.

Goldsmith, Steven T., W. Berry Lyons, Russell S. Harmon, Brendan a. Harmon, Anne E. Carey, and Gregg T. McElwee. 2015. “Organic Carbon Concentrations and Transport in Small Mountain Rivers, Panama.” Applied Geochemistry. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.04.014.

Goldsmith, S. T., R. S. Harmon, W. B. Lyons, B. A. Harmon, F. L. Ogden, and C. B. Gardner. 2015. “Evaluation of Controls on Silicate Weathering in Tropical Mountainous Rivers: Insights from the Isthmus of Panama.” Geology 43 (7): 563–566. doi: 10.1130/G36082.1.

Harmon, Brendan A, W D Goran, and Russell S Harmon. 2014. “Sustainable Cities and Military Installations in the Twenty-First Century: Towards Sustainable Military Installations and Adaptable Cities.” In Sustainable Cities and Military Installations, edited by Igor Linkov, 21–47. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-7161-1.

Petrasova, Anna, Brendan A Harmon, Vaclav Petras, and Helena Mitasova. 2014. “GIS-Based Environmental Modeling with Tangible Interaction and Dynamic Visualization.” In Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, edited by D.P. Ames and N. Quinn. San Diego, California, USA: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. url: http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2014/papers/iemss2014_submission_131.pdf.

Harmon, Brendan A, and Heather Viles. 2013. “Beyond Geomorphosites: Trade-Offs, Optimization, and Networking in Heritage Landscapes.” Environment Systems and Decisions 33 (2): 272–85. doi: 10.1007/s10669-013-9448-3.

Tateosian, Laura, Helena Mitasova, Brendan A Harmon, Brent Fogleman, Katherine Weaver, and Russell S Harmon. 2010. “TanGeoMS: Tangible Geospatial Modeling System.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16 (6): 1605–12. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.202.


Reports

Black, Josh, Peihong Han, Chadd Hippensteel, Xiaoman Ji, Sophie Lott, Murong Xu, Yue Zhang, and Brendan A Harmon. 2019. “Spring Up! Denham Springs Masterplan.” LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, Baton Rouge, LA. url: https://www.blurb.com/b/9534482-spring-up-denham-springs-masterplan.

Hammons, Hayden, Taylor Jacobson, Nguyet Nguyen, Elizabeth Peterson, Tanvi Shah, Xi Stich, Andrew Wright, and Brendan A Harmon. 2019. “The Hungry River: Designing a Future for the Amite River’s Former Sand and Gravel Mines.” LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, Baton Rouge, LA.

Levine, Jay, Christopher Eads, Karl Wegmann, Helena Mitasova, Nathan Lyons, Brendan A Harmon, Chanelle McCarther, Samantha Peart, Nicholas Oberle, and Mike Walter. 2018. “Freshwater Bivalve Survey for Endangered Species Branch Fort Bragg, NC.” Technical Report. US Army Corps of Engineers. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17512.11521.

Meentemeyer, Ross K, Francesco Tonini, Douglas Shoemaker, Richard C Cobb, Brendan A Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Anna Petrasova, Helena Mitasova. 2017. “Collaboratively Managing Sudden Oak Death Using Tangible Geospatial Modeling.” Proceedings of the sudden oak death sixth science symposium. General Technical Report GTR-PSW-255. US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. eds. Susan J. Frankel and Katharine M. Harrell. url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/53992.


Workshops

Jeziorska, Justyna and Brendan Harmon. 2018. “Unmanned Aerial Systems Workshop”. Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge, LA.

Petrasova, Anna, Vaclav Petras, Brendan A Harmon, and Helena Mitasova. 2016. “Using GRASS GIS through Python and Tangible Interfaces.” In FOSS4G NA 2016. Raleigh, NC. https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/.


Presentations

Geymonat, Ludovico and Brendan Harmon. 2024. “Hard Stone, Artificial Intelligence and the Chancel Screen in St Mark’s, Venice”. 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art. Lyon, France.

Harmon, Brendan and Hye Yeon Nam. 2024. “3D Printing Heritage Trees”. Digital Landscape Architecture 2024. Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Harmon, Brendan and Hye Yeon Nam. 2023. “Ecological Robotics”. Digital Landscape Architecture 2023. Harvard Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts, USA.

Harmon, Brendan A and Nicholas Serrano. 2022. “The Complexities and Aesthetic Potential of Point Clouds as a Medium for Landscape Architecture”. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2022 Conference Proceedings. Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, USA.

Dempsey, Kara, Devin F Smith, Brendan A Harmon, Russell S Harmon, Jorge A Espinosa, and Steven T Goldsmith. 2021. “Physical and climatic controls on nitrogen export across the Panama Canal Watershed”. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Portland, Oregon.

Harmon, Brendan A. 2021. “Multispectral Drone Data Analytics: Estimating the Carbon Stock of a Designed Meadow Through Time Series Analysis”. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2021 Conference Proceedings.

Serrano, Nicholas and Brendan A Harmon. 2021. “Digitizing Rosedown Plantation: Documentation Technologies for Landscape Ensembles”. Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 2021 Annual Conference. Natchez, Mississippi.

Wright, Andrew, Tanvi Shah, and Brendan A Harmon. 2021. “Democratizing GIS: Open Source Tools for Everyday Mapping and Analysis”. 2021 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture. Nashville, Tennessee.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Payam Tabrizian, Vaclav Petras, and Helena Mitasova. 2017. “Tangibly Smart: An Interactive Watershed in Your Hands.” In World Bank Watershed Days. Washington, D.C. https://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/tangible-landscape-talk/worldbank2017.html#/.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2016. “Tangible Geographies.” In Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2016. London.

Harmon, Brendan A, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2016. “Tangible Interaction for GIS.” In FOSS4G NA 2016. Raleigh, NC.

Mitasova, Helena, Anna Petrasova, Brendan A Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, and Ross K Meentemeyer. 2016. “Tangible Landscape: Open Source Environment for Geospatial Learning, Science, and Community.” In GeoForAll Webinar. GeoForAll. https://youtu.be/jUw5cKm08DE.

Harmon, Brendan, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Helena Mitasova, Jelena Vukomanovic, and Ross Meentemeyer. 2016. “Serious Gaming with Tangible Landscape.” In Coffee & Viz. Raleigh, NC. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/event/coffee-viz-serious-gaming-tangible-landscape.

Harmon, Brendan, Anna Petrasova, and Vaclav Petras. 2016. “Serious Gaming with Tangible Landscape.” In Coffee & Viz. Raleigh, NC. http://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/coffee-and-viz/hunt.html#/9.

Mitasova, Helena, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, and Brendan Harmon. 2015. “Dynamic Landscapes in Open Source GIS.” In Coffee & Viz. Raleigh, NC. https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications/coffeeandviz/#/.

Petrasova, Anna, Brendan Harmon, and Helena Mitasova. 2014. “GIS-Based Modeling with Tangible Interaction.” In FOSS4G 2014. https://vimeo.com/106854721.

Harmon, Brendan A, Helena Mitasova, and Anna Petrasova. 2014. “Tangible Geospatial Modeling for Landscape Architects.” In 2014 Geodesign Summit. Redlands, California: Esri. http://video.esri.com/watch/3170/tangible-geospatial-modeling-for-landscape-architects.

Mitasova, Helena, Brendan A Harmon, and Stephen B Blundell. 2013. “Exploring Topographic Changes Impacts on Land Surface Processes Using Tangible Interfaces.” In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 723. Denver, CO: Geological Society of America. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/webprogram/Paper229789.html.


Exhibitions

Nam, Hye Yeon, Brendan Harmon, Michael Pasquier, and Ka Hei Cheng. Shifting Datum. Remember Earth? July 30 - September 25, 2022. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, url: https://cacno.org/visual-arts/remember-earth.

Nam, Hye Yeon, Brendan Harmon, and Michael Pasquier. Shifting Datum. June 22, 2022. ACM Creativity & Cognition 2022. Venice, Italy. url: https://cc.acm.org/2022/art-exhibition-2/

Nam, Hye Yeon and Brendan Harmon. Contingent Dreams. October 2021. 404 International Festival of Art & Technology. url: https://youtu.be/z6zmj4uzvTg.

Nam, Hye Yeon and Brendan Harmon. Shifting Datum. May 2019. Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, url: https://www.batonrougegallery.org/nam-may2019.


Grants

Streete, Annicia, Brendan Harmon, Brent Fortenberry, Hye Yeon Nam, and Farzaneh Oghazian. Digital Futures: Emerging Technology for Coastal Preservation. Louisiana State University, Big Idea Research Grant. 2024-2025. $75,000.

Douthat, Thomas, Carol Friedland, Robert Rohli, Rubayet Bin Mostafiz, Md Adil Rahim, Ayat Al Assi, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, George Xue, Supratik Mukopadhyay, Nina Lam, Kevin Smiley, Jerrod Penn, Niki Pace, Melissa Daigle, J Matthew Fannin, Kelley Pace, Traci Birch, Haley Blakeman, Brendan Harmon, Brent Fortenberry, Fabio Capra Ribeiro, Richie Roberts, Kristen Stairs, and Meggan Franks. Advancing Integrative Systems Based Approaches to Risk and Resilience: the Louisiana Social, Environmental, and Economic Resilience (LA-SEER) Center. Louisiana State University, Big Idea Research Grant. 2024-2026. $250,000.

Harmon, Brendan. The Atlas of Heritage Trees: Digitizing the Big Cypress on Cat Island. Louisiana State University, Arts & Humanities Project Support Fund. 2023. $3,000.

Streete, Annicia, Brendan Harmon, and Nicholas Serrano. Creating Digital Models of African American Burial Grounds in Southeastern Louisiana River Parishes. Architectural Research Centers Consortium. 2023-2024. $10,000.

Streete, Annicia, Brendan Harmon, and Nicholas Serrano. Recording African American Burial Grounds as Points Clouds. National Park Ser- vice, Preservation Technology and Training Grants. 2023–2025. $20,469.

Harmon, Brendan, Hye Yeon Nam, and Carl Motsenbocker. Vertical Harvest: 3D Printed Ceramic Green Wall for the LSU Hill Farm. LSU Student Sustainability Fund. Louisiana State University. 2022-2023. $16,016.00.

Harmon, Brendan, Hye Yeon Nam, Frederick Ostrenko, Jeff Kuehny, Hunter Gilbert, Marcio de Queiroz, and Corina Barbalata. Autonomous Construction of the Natural and Built Environment. LSU Student Technology Fee. Louisiana State University. 2022-2023. $115,000.00.

Serrano, Nicholas and Brendan Harmon. Rosedown Plantation 3D Scan and Documentation. Historic Preservation Fund Grant. National Park Service. 2020-2021. $39,903.

Nam, Hye Yeon, Corina Barbalata, Brendan Harmon, Hunter Gilbert, and Marcio de Queiroz. Robots in Nature: Creative Environmental Applications for Robotics. Collaborative Seminar Grant. LSU Center for Collaborative Knowledge. 2020-2021. $3,500.

Serrano, Nicholas, Brendan Harmon, Christopher Cox, Amy Luther, and Kory Konsoer. Tangibly Teaching Terrain with Mixed Reality Terrain Models. Collaborative Seminar Grant. LSU Center for Collaborative Knowledge. 2020-2021. $3,500.

Harmon, Brendan, Hye Yeon Nam, Corina Barbalata, Hunter Gilbert, and Marcio de Queiroz. Ecological Robotics. LSU Student Technology Fee. Louisiana State University. 2019-2020. $77,000.

Harmon, Brendan, Hye Yeon Nam, Marcio de Queiroz, Hunter Gilbert, Tracy Quirk. Robots in Nature: Human-Robot-Environment Interaction for Advanced Ecosystem Services. LSU Faculty Research Grant. Louisiana State University. 2019-2021. $72,500.

Berkowitz, Zak et al. Navigate, Fabricate, Simulate. LSU Student Technology Fee. Louisiana State University. 2018-2019. $120,000.

Birch, Traci, Kris Palagi, and Brendan Harmon. Improving Quality of Life in the Amite River Watershed through Strategic Community-level Green Infrastructure Planning. Lamar Family Foundation. 2018-2019. $100,000.

Brendan Harmon. Dynamic Landscape Evolution. LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend. Louisiana State University. 2018. $5,000.

Berkowitz, Zak et al. The Mixed Reality Garage: Labs for the Future of Art and Design. LSU Student Technology Fee. Louisiana State University. 2017-2018. $116,559.

de Queiroz, Marcio, Hunter Gilbert, Jason Crow, Derick Ostrenko, Brendan Harmon, and Hye Yeon Nam. LSU Robotics = Engineering + Art + Design. LSU Student Technology Fee. Louisiana State University. 2017-2018. $83,325.

Carney, Jeff et al. Inland from the Coast: A multi-scalar approach to regional climate change responses. Gulf Research Program. National Academy of Science & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2017-2020. $2,936,000. Award: 2000008299.