Richard Smardon is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where he has graduated some 127 Master's and Doctoral students. He has edited and written eight books, including his most recent book, "Selected Papers from the 6th Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning" in 2021. He is on the editorial board for the journals: Land, Urban Planning and Water. He is the book editor for the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences and the Landscape Journal.