John is Design Director of the Waggonner & Ball studio within Moffatt & Nichol, a global infrastructure advisory firm and the nation’s premier coastal engineer. As a creative studio within the larger firm, Waggonner & Ball is the “trimtab” steering some of the country’s largest resilience and infrastructure investments through a design-forward, collaborative process.

John’s work is focused on adaptations to climate change in coastal areas, Living With Water® strategies at the site and campus scales, and a layered approach to design that foregrounds underlying issues of land, water, and systems. He has played an integral role in resilience planning efforts across the Southeast, helping to frame critical climate challenges, visualize data, and define future scenarios to help clients steward their resources.

John has taught in the Design program at the Tulane School of Architecture, serves as a board member of A Studio In The Woods where he has been an artist-in-residence, and helps to grow the next generation of resilience and adaptation leaders through his work with Ripple Effect, a non-profit focused on water literacy in K-12 schools.