Lindsay Campbell is a Research Urban Planner with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station in New York City. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning in 2006 with a Masters in City Planning. She attended Princeton University, graduating in 2002 with a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs (focusing in sociology) and with a Certificate in Environmental Studies. Her current research explores the dynamics of urban environmental stewardship on a variety of different open space site types, with a particular emphasis on organizational behavior, networks, and issues of social justice. She is the co-researcher on the Living Memorials Project, which is a multi-year study based on more than 150 interviews and the documentation of more than 700 sties nationwide that examines how trees and open space play a role in collective resilience in response to September 11. The Living Memorials National Research was recently awarded the 2007 EDRA/Places award. Her newest collaborative project, the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP) is an effort to map and analyze the spatial and network relationships among the 5,000 civic groups in New York City that are involved with environmental stewardship. Her graduate thesis research focused on the formation of organizational strategies in the restoration of urban waterways. Lindsay is the 2007 Sustain US Citizen Science winner in her age category for her paper on Sustainable Development of the Newtown Creek – which utilized this thesis research. While at MIT, she received a fellowship through the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, which studies collaborative decisionmaking in science-intensive environmental policy disputes and works closely with a number of US government agencies. Lindsay is also a competitive national and international fencer who has been on multiple US National teams for women's epee and is a member of the US Athletic Trust.

Author of: New York Citys Forgotten Industrial Waterway: Assessment, Goals, and Indicators for Long-term Sustainability of the Newtown Creek