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SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
10/14/05
Restoration of the Mississippi River Basin
William J. Mitsch, Ohio State University - 3:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium
William J. Mitsch is Distinguished Professor of Natural Resources, Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering at Ohio State University (OSU). He is director of the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at OSU. His research and teaching has focused on wetland ecology, creation and restoration. He has authored or co-authored over 200 papers, books and publications in this field including a recent text, Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration (2004).
Dr. Mitsch is past president of the Society of Wetlands Scientists (1995-6) and the American Ecological Engineering Society (2000-2). He has served on four National Research Council Panels: River Basins and Coastal Systems for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2002-04; Wetland Mitigation, 1999-2001; Wetland Characterization, 1993-95, and the U.S. Committee to SCOPE (Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment), 1991-97. From 1997-2000 he chaired the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. EPA Committee on Scientific Solutions to the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia. He currently serves on the National Technical Review Committee for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisiana Coastal Area restoration plan for New Orleans. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Ecological Engineering and serves on the editorial boards of several other scientific journals.
Dr. Mitsch received his BS in engineering at Notre Dame and M.E. (environmental engineering) and Ph.D. (systems ecology) at the University of Florida. He has received numerous awards including the Environmental Law Institute/U.S. EPA Award for Wetland Research (1996), the Odum Lecturer Award at University of Georgia (1998) and Distinguished Scholar Award at the OSU (1998). In August, 2004, Dr. Mitsch received, along with his Danish colleague and friend, Sven Erik Jørgensen, the Stockholm Water Prize awarded by King Carl XVI Gustaf for lifetime achievements in contributing to the modeling, management and conservation of lakes and wetlands.
SUGGESTED READING
Mitsch et al. 2001. Reducing Nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin: Strategies to counter a persistent ecological problem. Bioscience 51:373-388
Mitsch et al. 2005. Nitrate-nitrogen retention in wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin. Ecological Engineering 24:267-278.
Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jørgensen. 2004. Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration. J. Wiley, NY especially chapters 7-10.
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