Dr. Brad Bass received is PhD in Geography from Penn State University, in 1989. He has been working with green walls in since 1996, and in 1998, he co-authored Greenbacks from Green Roofs, the first green roof publication intended for Canadian audiences, and has written a manual on constructing an integrated green wall-biofilter system to treat wastewater. In 1999, Dr. Bass led the development of COBWEB (Complexity and Organized Behaviour Within Environmental Bounds), an agent-based simulation model that is now being used by students around the world to develop original research ideas. Dr. Bass was a member of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Task Team when the organization was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was shared with Al Gore. In 2012, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities awarded Dr. Bass the Lifetime Achievement Award for Green Infrastructure Research. In 2015, Dr. Bass led the first team to estimate a cost of the damage caused by harmful and nuisance algal blooms on Lake Erie. Most recently, Dr. Bass has recently been named as an Associate Executive Director of the Foundation for Student Science and Technology.