Melby
The Center for
Sustainable Design
|| Education
- Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1973
- Bachelors Degree in Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1970
- University of Missouri, 1965 - 1968
|| Books Authored
- Simplified Irrigation Design, First Edition, John Wiley and Sons
- Home Landscapes, Planting Design and Management, with Edward C. Martin, Jr. Publisher-Timber Press
- Simplified Irrigation Design, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons
- Regenerative Design Techniques, with Tom Cathcart, John Wiley and Sons, Publisher, released in June 2002, Simple Chinese Translation published in 2005
|| Ongoing and Completed Research and Design projects
- Master Planting Plan for the manmade beach in Harrison County, Mississippi to prevent beach erosion. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Master Planting Plan for 26 Miles of Highway 90 Median in Harrison County, Mississippi. Department of Transportation, State of Mississippi.
- Creation of a Master Planting Plan for 6 miles of Highway 90 Gulf Coast to provide traffic and pedestrian safety, and to stabilize and armor the coastal edge from storm impacts.
- Design of a Sustainable Residence, Forest Products Housing Coalition, C.S.D., Mississippi State University
- Determination of a process for establishment of emergent salt marsh grasses for the high energy environment along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mississippi/Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, C.S.D., Mississippi State University
- Master Plan for the Old Main District, 20 block downtown district, Downtown Merchants Association, Starkville, Mississippi Land Use Plan for the Stennis Space Center 125,000 acre Buffer Zone, NASA, Department of Defense- Melby, Cathcart, Center for Sustainable Design
- Interpretive Planning, Exhibit Design, Gulf of Mexico Program, Environmental Protection Agency Stennis Space Center, Melby, Cathcart, Center for Sustainable Design
- Master Plan for the Blacklands Tall Grass Prairie, Public School Partnership Program with Mississippi State University- Melby, Cathcart, Center for Sustainable Design
- Experimental Salt Marsh and Upper Beach Planting, Department of Marine Resources, Sand Beach Authority, and Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce- Melby, Cathcart, Center for Sustainable Design
- National Compendium of Best Management Projects for the Watershed Science Institute, National Resource Conservation Service, USDA- Melby, Cathcart, Center for Sustainable Design
- Programming and Conceptual Design for Sustainable Landscape Architecture Facility, Mississippi State University-Melby, Facilities Committee, MSU
- Tourism Design Plans for Biloxi, Mississippi, 1991, Design 5 Studio
- Tourism Design Plans for Coahoma County, Mississippi 1993, Design 5 Studio
- Master Plan for Coahoma Community College, Historically Black College, 1992, Design 5 Studio
- Master Plan for Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis’s Home, Biloxi, Ms. Design 5 Studio
