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William J. Mitsch

January 01, 1970

William Mitsch (born March 29, 1947) is an ecosystem ecologist and ecological engineer who was co-laureate of the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize in August 2004 as a result of a career in wetland ecology and restoration, ecological engineering, and ecological modelling.

William J. Mitsch, Ph.D.
AwardsNational Wetland Award, U.S. EPA and Environmental Law Institute (1996); Odum Lecturer, University of Georgia (1998); Stockholm Water Prize (2004); Theodore M. Sperry Award, Society for Ecological Restoration International (for a career in ecosystem restoration, 2005); Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Wetland Scientists (2007); Einstein Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2010); Doctorate honoris causa, Tartu University, Estonia (2010); Certificate for Concurrent Professorship, Nanjing Forestry University, China (2011); The Ramsar Convention Award for Merit (2015); Outstanding Wetland Scientist Award, 10th INTECOL (International Association of Ecology) Wetland Conference, Changshu, China (2016); Odum Award, American Ecological Engineering Society (2018)
Scientific career
Fieldswetland ecology and biogeochemistry; wetland and river restoration; ecological engineering; systems ecology
InstitutionsIllinois Institute of Technology, University of Louisville, Ohio State University, Florida Gulf Coast University

History edit

Mitsch was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, US, on March 29, 1947. He graduated from Wheeling Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1965 and University of Notre Dame in 1969 where he majored in mechanical engineering. He then worked for two years in the power industry—for American Electric Power in Ohio and for Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. It was at the latter utility that he became part of their then-new environmental planning staff in 1970, being influenced by the first Earth Day in May 1970. He then went to the University of Florida in Gainesville and received an M.E. degree (1972) and Ph.D. (1975) in environmental engineering sciences. In his Ph.D. program he transitioned to become more of an ecologist, studying wetlands and lakes in Florida under Professor H.T. Odum. Prior to arriving at Florida Gulf Coast University in late 2012, he was on the faculties at Illinois Institute of Technology (1975–79), University of Louisville (1979–85), and, for 26 years at Ohio State University (1986–2012).[citation needed]

Contributions edit

His most significant contributions are 1. development of the field of ecological engineering as an author of the first book on this subject and the founder (in 1992) and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Ecological Engineering,[1] 2. creation of the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, a unique 20-hectare (50-acre) wetland research laboratory and now Ramsar Wetland of International Importance at The Ohio State University, 3. major contributions toward the development of the field of wetland ecology, particularly as first author of five editions of the standard textbook Wetlands,[2] a book that continues to be used around the world to teach wetland ecology. That book has educated several generations of wetland scientists since it was first introduced in 1986. Dr. Mitsch's research has emphasized wetlands for nutrient removal in the agricultural Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri (MOM) River Basin (Mitsch et al. 2001, 2012, 2014) [3] and more recently to protect the Florida Everglades (Mitsch et al. 2015; Marois and Mitsch 2015a; Mitsch 2016a; Mitsch et al., 2018) and Lake Erie in the Laurentian Great Lakes (Mitsch et al., 2017). His recent research continues to focus on solving harmful algal blooms, including red tide, with treatment wetlands and restored landscapes (Griffiths and Mitsch, 2017; Nesbit and Mitsch, 2018; Mitsch, 2018) and also on the ecosystem service of natural and restored/created wetlands in mitigating climate change (Mitsch et al. 2010, 2013; Villa and Mitsch, 2015; Marois and Mitsch 2015b; Li and Mitsch, 2016; Mitsch 2016b; Mitsch and Mander, 2018).[4]

Mitsch is currently Eminent Scholar and Director, Everglades Wetland Research Park,[5] Florida Gulf Coast University, Naples, Florida. Before October 2012 he was Distinguished Professor of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and Director of the university's Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park.[6] His research and teaching has focused on wetland biogeochemistry, wetland creation and restoration, ecological engineering, and ecosystem modeling. Dr. Mitsch has authored or co-authored over 600 papers, books, published abstracts and other publications in ecological and environmental science. He is co-author or co-editor of 20 books including senior author of Ecological Engineering (1989), Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration (2004), 5 editions of Wetlands (1986–2015), and Wetland Ecosystems (2009).

Mitsch has served on committees of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2001–2011) and on several United States National Research Council (NRC) committees of the National Academy of Sciences (1991–2004).

His international activity includes serving as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre, University of Botswana in 2007 and at the Bialystok University of Technology in Poland in 2016, a Fulbright Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1986–1987) and an advisor/researcher for several Chinese universities; United Nations Environmental Programme, Egypt and Jordan; EARTH University, Costa Rica; IAMZ (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza), Spain; SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), Paris, France; and MISTRA (Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research), Sweden, among other locations. He was chair of EcoSummit 2012 held in Columbus, Ohio, USA and is co-chair of EcoSummit 2016 held in Montpellier, France.

Among his awards, Mitsch and his colleague and frequent co-author Sven Jørgensen of Denmark received the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize[7] from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on August 19, 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden. He also received the National Wetland Research Award (1996) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Law Institute, the Theodore M. Sperry Award (2005)[8] for a career in ecosystem restoration from the Society for Ecological Restoration, a SWS Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)[9] from the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), an Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010), and The Ramsar Convention Award for Merit presented at Ramsar Committee of Party (COP) 12th Congress, Puenta del Este, Uruguay on June 3, 2015.[10] His Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at Ohio State University became the 24th USA Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in June 2008 from the Ramsar Convention in Switzerland.[11] In 2010, he was awarded Doctorate honoris causa by the University of Tartu in Estonia.[12]

Videos edit

William Mitsch on Wetland Preservation - CCTV China 2015 [13]

Bill Mitsch discusses wetlands and watersheds CHNEP September 2013 [14]

Wetlands are crucial to help clean up water on YouTube

iMix: Wetland on YouTube

Selected publications edit

About William Mitsch
  • "Black Swamp Savior: How Bringing Back Conquered Wetlands Could Help Solve Harmful Algal Blooms" Lori Balster, Environmental Monitor, July 31, 2018 [15]
  • "Restoration of historic Great Black Swamp could help save Lake Erie" Tom Henry, Toledo Blade September 22, 2017 [16]
  • "Learning to Love the Great Black Swamp: Midwest settlers worked for generations to tame the wicked swamplands west of Lake Erie. Can they be convinced to give some back?" Sharon Levy, UNDARK March 31, 2017 [17]
  • "Wheeling Central Grad Comes Home" Heather Ziegler, The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register 9 August 2015 [18]
  • "Wetland warrior: Professor brings expertise to environmental front line: The Everglades" Drew Sterwald, Pinnacle, Florida Gulf Coast University's Magazine November 2012 [19]
  • "A life bogged down: Biologist Bill Mitsch spent career at Ohio State creating world-class wetlands" Spencer Hunt, 2012. Columbus Dispatch 30 September 2012 [20]
  • Inman, Mason (2010). "Working with water". Nature Reports Climate Change. 1 (1004): 39–41. doi:10.1038/climate.2010.28.[21]
  • Lenart, Melanie (2009). "An unseen carbon sink". Nature Reports Climate Change. 1 (912): 137–138. doi:10.1038/climate.2009.125.[4]
  • Waist-deep in Ecological Integrity, Notre Dame Magazine, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2006[22]
  • Under Ground by Yvonne Baskin, Island Press, 2005, Chapter VI "Microbes, Muck, and Dead Zones"[23]
  • Sven Erik Jørgensen, Denmark; William J. Mitsch, USA, Stockholm International Water Institute, 2004 [7]
By William Mitsch

Selected Books

  • Mitsch, W.J. and J.G. Gosselink. 2015. Wetlands, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York [24]
  • Mitsch, W.J., J.G. Gosselink, C.J. Anderson, and L. Zhang. 2009. Wetland Ecosystems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 295 pp.[25]
  • Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jørgensen. 2004. Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 472 pp.[26]
  • Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jørgensen. 1989. Ecological Engineering: An Introduction to Ecotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 472 pp.

Selected Journal Articles

  • Bernal, B.; Mitsch, W.J. (2012). "Comparing carbon sequestration in temperate freshwater wetland communities". Global Change Biology. 18 (5): 1636–1647. Bibcode:2012GCBio..18.1636B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02619.x. S2CID 86391591.
  • Costanza, R.; Mitsch, W.J.; Day, J.W. (2006). "A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta: applying ecological economics and ecological engineering". Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 4 (9): 465–472. doi:10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[465:anvfno]2.0.co;2.
  • Day, J.W. Jr.; Hall, C.A.S.; Yáñez-Arancibia, A.; Pimentel, D.; Marti, C. Ibañez; Mitsch, W. J. (2009). "Ecology in times of scarcity". BioScience. 59 (4): 321–331. doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.4.10. S2CID 86161742.
  • Day, J.W. Jr.; Boesch, D. F.; Clairain, E. J.; Kemp, G. P.; Laska, S. B.; Mitsch, W. J.; Orth, K.; Mashriqui, H.; Reed, D. R.; Shabman, L.; Simenstad, C. A.; Streever, B. J.; Twilley, R. R.; Watson, C. C.; Wells, J. T. (2007). "Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons From Hurricanes Katrina and Rita". Science. 315 (5819): 1679–1684. Bibcode:2007Sci...315.1679D. doi:10.1126/science.1137030. PMID 17379799. S2CID 26092197.
  • Hernandez, M.E.; Mitsch, W.J. (2007). "Denitrification in created riverine wetlands: Influence of hydrology and season". Ecological Engineering. 30: 78–88. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2007.01.015. hdl:1811/24089. S2CID 98683105.
  • Kusler, J; Mitsch, W.J.; Larson, J.S. (1994). "Wetlands". Scientific American. 270 (1): 64–70. Bibcode:1994SciAm.270a..64K. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0194-64b.
  • Li, X.; Mitsch, W.J. (2016). "Methane emissions from created and restored freshwater and brackish marshes in Southwest Florida, USA". Ecological Engineering. 91: 529–536. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.001.
  • Marois, D.E.; Mitsch, W.J. (2015a). "Modeling phosphorus retention at low concentrations in Florida Everglades mesocosms". Ecological Modelling. 319: 42–62. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.09.024.
  • Marois, D.E.; Mitsch, W.J. (2015b). "Coastal protection from tsunamis and cyclones provided by mangrove wetlands--a review". International Journal for Biodiversity Science, Ecosystems Services and Management. 11: 71–83. doi:10.1080/21513732.2014.997292. S2CID 86554474.
  • Mitsch, W.J. (2016a). "Restoring the Greater Florida Everglades, once and for all". Ecological Engineering. 93: A1–A3. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.02.016.
  • Mitsch, W.J. (2016b). "Wetlands and Climate Change". National Wetlands Newsletter. 38 (1): 5–11.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Zhang, L.; Marois, D.; Song, K. (2015). "Protecting the Florida Everglades wetlands with wetlands: Can stormwater phosphorus be reduced to oligotrophic conditions?". Ecological Engineering. 80: 8–19. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.10.006.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Zhang, L.; Waletzko, E.; Bernal, B. (2014). "Validation of the ecosystem services of created wetlands: Two decades of plant succession, nutrient retention, and carbon sequestration in experimental riverine marshes". Ecological Engineering. 72: 11–24. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.09.108.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Bernal, B.; Nahlik, A.M.; Mander, U.; Zhang, L.; Anderson, C.J.; Jørgensen, S.E.; Brix, H. (2013). "Wetlands, carbon, and climate change". Landscape Ecology. 28 (4): 583–597. doi:10.1007/s10980-012-9758-8. S2CID 11939685.
  • Mitsch, W.J; Hernandez, M. (2013). "Landscape and climate change threats to wetlands of North and Central America". Aquatic Sciences. 75: 133–149. doi:10.1007/s00027-012-0262-7. S2CID 13894723.
  • Mitsch, W.J; Zhang, L.; Stefanik, K. C.; Nahlik, A. M.; Anderson, C. J.; Bernal, B.; Hernandez, M.; Song, K. (2012). "Creating wetlands: Primary succession, water quality changes, and self-design over 15 years". BioScience. 62 (3): 237–250. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.3.5.
  • Mitsch, W.J. (2012). "What is ecological engineering?". Ecological Engineering. 45: 5–12. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.04.013. S2CID 145370880.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Nahlik, A.M.; Wolski, P.; Bernal, B.; Zhang, L.; Ramberg, L. (2010). "Tropical wetlands: Seasonal hydrologic pulsing, carbon sequestration, and methane emissions". Wetlands Ecology and Management. 18 (5): 573–586. doi:10.1007/s11273-009-9164-4. S2CID 41976725.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Lu; Yuan, X.; He, W.; Zhang, L. (2008). "Optimizing ecosystem services in China". Science. 322 (5901): 528. doi:10.1126/science.322.5901.528b. PMID 18948520. S2CID 206582797.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Zhang, L.; Fink, D.F.; Hernandez, M.E.; Altor, A.E.; Tuttle, C.L.; Nahlik, A.M. (2008). "Ecological engineering of floodplains". Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology. 8 (2–4): 139–147. doi:10.2478/v10104-009-0010-3.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Tejada, J.; Nahlik, A.M.; Kohlmann, B.; Bernal; Hernández, C.E. (2008). "Tropical wetlands for climate change research, water quality management and conservation education on a university campus in Costa Rica". Ecological Engineering. 34 (4): 276–288. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.07.012.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Day, J.W.; Zhang, Li; Lane, R.R. (2005). "Nitrate-nitrogen retention by wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin". Ecological Engineering. 24 (4): 267–278. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2005.02.005.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Day, J.W. Jr. (2004). "Thinking big with whole ecosystem studies and ecosystem restoration—A legacy of H.T. Odum". Ecological Modelling. 178 (1–2): 133–155. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.12.038.
  • Mitsch, William J.; Day, John W. Jr.; Gilliam, J. Wendell; Groffman, Peter M.; Hey, Donald L.; Randall, Gyles W.; Wang, Naiming (2001). "Reducing nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin: Strategies to counter a persistent ecological problem". BioScience. 51 (5): 373–388. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0373:rnlttg]2.0.co;2. S2CID 87909881.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Wu, X.; Nairn, R.W.; Weihe, P.E.; Wang, N.; Deal, R.; Boucher, C.E. (1998). "Creating and restoring wetlands: A whole-ecosystem experiment in self-design". BioScience. 48 (12): 1019–1030. doi:10.2307/1313458. JSTOR 1313458.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Wilson, R.F. (1996). "Improving the success of wetland creation and restoration with know-how, time, and self-design". Ecological Applications. 6 (1): 77–83. doi:10.2307/2269554. JSTOR 2269554.
  • Mitsch, W.J. (1995). "Restoration of our lakes and rivers with wetlands—an important application of ecological engineering". Water Science and Technology. 31 (8): 167–177. doi:10.1016/0273-1223(95)00369-x.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Cronk, J.K.; Wu, X.; Nairn, R.W.; Hey, D.L. (1995). "Phosphorus retention in constructed freshwater riparian marshes". Ecological Applications. 5 (3): 830–845. Bibcode:1995EcoAp...5..830M. doi:10.2307/1941991. JSTOR 1941991.
  • Mitsch, W.J. (1993). "Ecological engineering—a cooperative role with the planetary life–support systems". Environmental Science & Technology. 27 (3): 438–445. Bibcode:1993EnST...27..438M. doi:10.1021/es00040a600.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Rust, W.G. (1984). "Tree growth responses to flooding in a bottomland forest in northeastern Illinois". Forest Science. 30: 499–510.
  • Mitsch, W.J.; Dorge, C.L.; Wiemhoff, J.W. (1979). "Ecosystem dynamics and a phosphorus budget of an alluvial cypress swamp in southern Illinois". Ecology. 60 (6): 1116–1124. Bibcode:1979Ecol...60.1116M. doi:10.2307/1936959. JSTOR 1936959.
  • Nahlik, A.M.; Mitsch, W.J. (2011). "Methane emissions from tropical freshwater wetlands located in different climatic zones of Costa Rica". Global Change Biology. 17 (3): 1321–1334. Bibcode:2011GCBio..17.1321N. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02190.x. S2CID 83834737.
  • Villa, J.A.; Mitsch, W.J. (2015). "Carbon sequestration in different wetland plant communities in Southwest Florida". International Journal for Biodiversity Science, Ecosystems Services and Management. 11: 17–28. doi:10.1080/21513732.2014.973909.

References edit

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  4. ^ a b "Nature Climate Change". August 28, 2023.
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  11. ^ . www.ramsar.org. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012.
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  14. ^ YouTube. YouTube.[dead link]
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  16. ^ "Restoration of historic Great Black Swamp could help save Lake Erie".
  17. ^ "In Ohio, Learning the Importance of Wetlands and the Great Black Swamp". March 31, 2017.
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  19. ^ . Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
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  22. ^ "Waist-deep in ecological integrity | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame". December 10, 2008.
  23. ^ Book details islandpress.com [dead link]
  24. ^ The first edition of Wetlands by Mitsch and Gosselink was published in 1986 by Van Nostrand Reinhold. Second, third, fourth, and fifth (current) editions were published in 1993, 2000, 2007, and 2015 respectively by John Wiley & Sons. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118676823.html 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ "Wetland Ecosystems".
  26. ^ "Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration".

External links edit

  • Everglades Wetland Research Park

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources William J Mitsch news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message William Mitsch born March 29 1947 is an ecosystem ecologist and ecological engineer who was co laureate of the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize in August 2004 as a result of a career in wetland ecology and restoration ecological engineering and ecological modelling William J Mitsch Ph D AwardsNational Wetland Award U S EPA and Environmental Law Institute 1996 Odum Lecturer University of Georgia 1998 Stockholm Water Prize 2004 Theodore M Sperry Award Society for Ecological Restoration International for a career in ecosystem restoration 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Society of Wetland Scientists 2007 Einstein Professorship Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 2010 Doctorate honoris causa Tartu University Estonia 2010 Certificate for Concurrent Professorship Nanjing Forestry University China 2011 The Ramsar Convention Award for Merit 2015 Outstanding Wetland Scientist Award 10th INTECOL International Association of Ecology Wetland Conference Changshu China 2016 Odum Award American Ecological Engineering Society 2018 Scientific careerFieldswetland ecology and biogeochemistry wetland and river restoration ecological engineering systems ecologyInstitutionsIllinois Institute of Technology University of Louisville Ohio State University Florida Gulf Coast University Contents 1 History 2 Contributions 3 Videos 4 Selected publications 5 References 6 External linksHistory editMitsch was born in Wheeling West Virginia US on March 29 1947 He graduated from Wheeling Central Catholic High School in Wheeling West Virginia in 1965 and University of Notre Dame in 1969 where he majored in mechanical engineering He then worked for two years in the power industry for American Electric Power in Ohio and for Commonwealth Edison in Chicago It was at the latter utility that he became part of their then new environmental planning staff in 1970 being influenced by the first Earth Day in May 1970 He then went to the University of Florida in Gainesville and received an M E degree 1972 and Ph D 1975 in environmental engineering sciences In his Ph D program he transitioned to become more of an ecologist studying wetlands and lakes in Florida under Professor H T Odum Prior to arriving at Florida Gulf Coast University in late 2012 he was on the faculties at Illinois Institute of Technology 1975 79 University of Louisville 1979 85 and for 26 years at Ohio State University 1986 2012 citation needed Contributions editHis most significant contributions are 1 development of the field of ecological engineering as an author of the first book on this subject and the founder in 1992 and editor in chief of the scientific journal Ecological Engineering 1 2 creation of the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park a unique 20 hectare 50 acre wetland research laboratory and now Ramsar Wetland of International Importance at The Ohio State University 3 major contributions toward the development of the field of wetland ecology particularly as first author of five editions of the standard textbook Wetlands 2 a book that continues to be used around the world to teach wetland ecology That book has educated several generations of wetland scientists since it was first introduced in 1986 Dr Mitsch s research has emphasized wetlands for nutrient removal in the agricultural Mississippi Ohio Missouri MOM River Basin Mitsch et al 2001 2012 2014 3 and more recently to protect the Florida Everglades Mitsch et al 2015 Marois and Mitsch 2015a Mitsch 2016a Mitsch et al 2018 and Lake Erie in the Laurentian Great Lakes Mitsch et al 2017 His recent research continues to focus on solving harmful algal blooms including red tide with treatment wetlands and restored landscapes Griffiths and Mitsch 2017 Nesbit and Mitsch 2018 Mitsch 2018 and also on the ecosystem service of natural and restored created wetlands in mitigating climate change Mitsch et al 2010 2013 Villa and Mitsch 2015 Marois and Mitsch 2015b Li and Mitsch 2016 Mitsch 2016b Mitsch and Mander 2018 4 Mitsch is currently Eminent Scholar and Director Everglades Wetland Research Park 5 Florida Gulf Coast University Naples Florida Before October 2012 he was Distinguished Professor of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and Director of the university s Wilma H Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park 6 His research and teaching has focused on wetland biogeochemistry wetland creation and restoration ecological engineering and ecosystem modeling Dr Mitsch has authored or co authored over 600 papers books published abstracts and other publications in ecological and environmental science He is co author or co editor of 20 books including senior author of Ecological Engineering 1989 Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration 2004 5 editions of Wetlands 1986 2015 and Wetland Ecosystems 2009 Mitsch has served on committees of the Science Advisory Board SAB of the U S Environmental Protection Agency 2001 2011 and on several United States National Research Council NRC committees of the National Academy of Sciences 1991 2004 His international activity includes serving as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre University of Botswana in 2007 and at the Bialystok University of Technology in Poland in 2016 a Fulbright Fellow University of Copenhagen Denmark 1986 1987 and an advisor researcher for several Chinese universities United Nations Environmental Programme Egypt and Jordan EARTH University Costa Rica IAMZ Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza Spain SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment Paris France and MISTRA Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research Sweden among other locations He was chair of EcoSummit 2012 held in Columbus Ohio USA and is co chair of EcoSummit 2016 held in Montpellier France Among his awards Mitsch and his colleague and frequent co author Sven Jorgensen of Denmark received the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize 7 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on August 19 2004 in Stockholm Sweden He also received the National Wetland Research Award 1996 from the U S Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Law Institute the Theodore M Sperry Award 2005 8 for a career in ecosystem restoration from the Society for Ecological Restoration a SWS Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 9 from the Society of Wetland Scientists SWS an Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2010 and The Ramsar Convention Award for Merit presented at Ramsar Committee of Party COP 12th Congress Puenta del Este Uruguay on June 3 2015 10 His Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at Ohio State University became the 24th USA Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in June 2008 from the Ramsar Convention in Switzerland 11 In 2010 he was awarded Doctorate honoris causa by the University of Tartu in Estonia 12 Videos editWilliam Mitsch on Wetland Preservation CCTV China 2015 13 Bill Mitsch discusses wetlands and watersheds CHNEP September 2013 14 Wetlands are crucial to help clean up water on YouTubeiMix Wetland on YouTubeSelected publications editAbout William Mitsch Black Swamp Savior How Bringing Back Conquered Wetlands Could Help Solve Harmful Algal Blooms Lori Balster Environmental Monitor July 31 2018 15 Restoration of historic Great Black Swamp could help save Lake Erie Tom Henry Toledo Blade September 22 2017 16 Learning to Love the Great Black Swamp Midwest settlers worked for generations to tame the wicked swamplands west of Lake Erie Can they be convinced to give some back Sharon Levy UNDARK March 31 2017 17 Wheeling Central Grad Comes Home Heather Ziegler The Intelligencer Wheeling News Register 9 August 2015 18 Wetland warrior Professor brings expertise to environmental front line The Everglades Drew Sterwald Pinnacle Florida Gulf Coast University s Magazine November 2012 19 A life bogged down Biologist Bill Mitsch spent career at Ohio State creating world class wetlands Spencer Hunt 2012 Columbus Dispatch 30 September 2012 20 Inman Mason 2010 Working with water Nature Reports Climate Change 1 1004 39 41 doi 10 1038 climate 2010 28 21 Lenart Melanie 2009 An unseen carbon sink Nature Reports Climate Change 1 912 137 138 doi 10 1038 climate 2009 125 4 Waist deep in Ecological Integrity Notre Dame Magazine University of Notre Dame Spring 2006 22 Under Ground by Yvonne Baskin Island Press 2005 Chapter VI Microbes Muck and Dead Zones 23 Sven Erik Jorgensen Denmark William J Mitsch USA Stockholm International Water Institute 2004 7 By William Mitsch Selected Books Mitsch W J and J G Gosselink 2015 Wetlands 5th ed John Wiley amp Sons Inc New York 24 Mitsch W J J G Gosselink C J Anderson and L Zhang 2009 Wetland Ecosystems John Wiley amp Sons Inc New York 295 pp 25 Mitsch W J and S E Jorgensen 2004 Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration John Wiley amp Sons New York 472 pp 26 Mitsch W J and S E Jorgensen 1989 Ecological Engineering An Introduction to Ecotechnology John Wiley amp Sons New York 472 pp Selected Journal Articles Bernal B Mitsch W J 2012 Comparing carbon sequestration in temperate freshwater wetland communities Global Change Biology 18 5 1636 1647 Bibcode 2012GCBio 18 1636B doi 10 1111 j 1365 2486 2011 02619 x S2CID 86391591 Costanza R Mitsch W J Day J W 2006 A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta applying ecological economics and ecological engineering Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4 9 465 472 doi 10 1890 1540 9295 2006 4 465 anvfno 2 0 co 2 Day J W Jr Hall C A S Yanez Arancibia A Pimentel D Marti C Ibanez Mitsch W J 2009 Ecology in times of scarcity BioScience 59 4 321 331 doi 10 1525 bio 2009 59 4 10 S2CID 86161742 Day J W Jr Boesch D F Clairain E J Kemp G P Laska S B Mitsch W J Orth K Mashriqui H Reed D R Shabman L Simenstad C A Streever B J Twilley R R Watson C C Wells J T 2007 Restoration of the Mississippi Delta Lessons From Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Science 315 5819 1679 1684 Bibcode 2007Sci 315 1679D doi 10 1126 science 1137030 PMID 17379799 S2CID 26092197 Hernandez M E Mitsch W J 2007 Denitrification in created riverine wetlands Influence of hydrology and season Ecological Engineering 30 78 88 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2007 01 015 hdl 1811 24089 S2CID 98683105 Kusler J Mitsch W J Larson J S 1994 Wetlands Scientific American 270 1 64 70 Bibcode 1994SciAm 270a 64K doi 10 1038 scientificamerican0194 64b Li X Mitsch W J 2016 Methane emissions from created and restored freshwater and brackish marshes in Southwest Florida USA Ecological Engineering 91 529 536 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2016 01 001 Marois D E Mitsch W J 2015a Modeling phosphorus retention at low concentrations in Florida Everglades mesocosms Ecological Modelling 319 42 62 doi 10 1016 j ecolmodel 2015 09 024 Marois D E Mitsch W J 2015b Coastal protection from tsunamis and cyclones provided by mangrove wetlands a review International Journal for Biodiversity Science Ecosystems Services and Management 11 71 83 doi 10 1080 21513732 2014 997292 S2CID 86554474 Mitsch W J 2016a Restoring the Greater Florida Everglades once and for all Ecological Engineering 93 A1 A3 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2016 02 016 Mitsch W J 2016b Wetlands and Climate Change National Wetlands Newsletter 38 1 5 11 Mitsch W J Zhang L Marois D Song K 2015 Protecting the Florida Everglades wetlands with wetlands Can stormwater phosphorus be reduced to oligotrophic conditions Ecological Engineering 80 8 19 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2014 10 006 Mitsch W J Zhang L Waletzko E Bernal B 2014 Validation of the ecosystem services of created wetlands Two decades of plant succession nutrient retention and carbon sequestration in experimental riverine marshes Ecological Engineering 72 11 24 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2014 09 108 Mitsch W J Bernal B Nahlik A M Mander U Zhang L Anderson C J Jorgensen S E Brix H 2013 Wetlands carbon and climate change Landscape Ecology 28 4 583 597 doi 10 1007 s10980 012 9758 8 S2CID 11939685 Mitsch W J Hernandez M 2013 Landscape and climate change threats to wetlands of North and Central America Aquatic Sciences 75 133 149 doi 10 1007 s00027 012 0262 7 S2CID 13894723 Mitsch W J Zhang L Stefanik K C Nahlik A M Anderson C J Bernal B Hernandez M Song K 2012 Creating wetlands Primary succession water quality changes and self design over 15 years BioScience 62 3 237 250 doi 10 1525 bio 2012 62 3 5 Mitsch W J 2012 What is ecological engineering Ecological Engineering 45 5 12 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2012 04 013 S2CID 145370880 Mitsch W J Nahlik A M Wolski P Bernal B Zhang L Ramberg L 2010 Tropical wetlands Seasonal hydrologic pulsing carbon sequestration and methane emissions Wetlands Ecology and Management 18 5 573 586 doi 10 1007 s11273 009 9164 4 S2CID 41976725 Mitsch W J Lu Yuan X He W Zhang L 2008 Optimizing ecosystem services in China Science 322 5901 528 doi 10 1126 science 322 5901 528b PMID 18948520 S2CID 206582797 Mitsch W J Zhang L Fink D F Hernandez M E Altor A E Tuttle C L Nahlik A M 2008 Ecological engineering of floodplains Ecohydrology amp Hydrobiology 8 2 4 139 147 doi 10 2478 v10104 009 0010 3 Mitsch W J Tejada J Nahlik A M Kohlmann B Bernal Hernandez C E 2008 Tropical wetlands for climate change research water quality management and conservation education on a university campus in Costa Rica Ecological Engineering 34 4 276 288 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2008 07 012 Mitsch W J Day J W Zhang Li Lane R R 2005 Nitrate nitrogen retention by wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin Ecological Engineering 24 4 267 278 doi 10 1016 j ecoleng 2005 02 005 Mitsch W J Day J W Jr 2004 Thinking big with whole ecosystem studies and ecosystem restoration A legacy of H T Odum Ecological Modelling 178 1 2 133 155 doi 10 1016 j ecolmodel 2003 12 038 Mitsch William J Day John W Jr Gilliam J Wendell Groffman Peter M Hey Donald L Randall Gyles W Wang Naiming 2001 Reducing nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin Strategies to counter a persistent ecological problem BioScience 51 5 373 388 doi 10 1641 0006 3568 2001 051 0373 rnlttg 2 0 co 2 S2CID 87909881 Mitsch W J Wu X Nairn R W Weihe P E Wang N Deal R Boucher C E 1998 Creating and restoring wetlands A whole ecosystem experiment in self design BioScience 48 12 1019 1030 doi 10 2307 1313458 JSTOR 1313458 Mitsch W J Wilson R F 1996 Improving the success of wetland creation and restoration with know how time and self design Ecological Applications 6 1 77 83 doi 10 2307 2269554 JSTOR 2269554 Mitsch W J 1995 Restoration of our lakes and rivers with wetlands an important application of ecological engineering Water Science and Technology 31 8 167 177 doi 10 1016 0273 1223 95 00369 x Mitsch W J Cronk J K Wu X Nairn R W Hey D L 1995 Phosphorus retention in constructed freshwater riparian marshes Ecological Applications 5 3 830 845 Bibcode 1995EcoAp 5 830M doi 10 2307 1941991 JSTOR 1941991 Mitsch W J 1993 Ecological engineering a cooperative role with the planetary life support systems Environmental Science amp Technology 27 3 438 445 Bibcode 1993EnST 27 438M doi 10 1021 es00040a600 Mitsch W J Rust W G 1984 Tree growth responses to flooding in a bottomland forest in northeastern Illinois Forest Science 30 499 510 Mitsch W J Dorge C L Wiemhoff J W 1979 Ecosystem dynamics and a phosphorus budget of an alluvial cypress swamp in southern Illinois Ecology 60 6 1116 1124 Bibcode 1979Ecol 60 1116M doi 10 2307 1936959 JSTOR 1936959 Nahlik A M Mitsch W J 2011 Methane emissions from tropical freshwater wetlands located in different climatic zones of Costa Rica Global Change Biology 17 3 1321 1334 Bibcode 2011GCBio 17 1321N doi 10 1111 j 1365 2486 2010 02190 x S2CID 83834737 Villa J A Mitsch W J 2015 Carbon sequestration in different wetland plant communities in Southwest Florida International Journal for Biodiversity Science Ecosystems Services and Management 11 17 28 doi 10 1080 21513732 2014 973909 References edit Ecological Engineering 0925 8574 Elsevier Wetlands 5th Edition Archived from the original on October 9 2014 Retrieved October 27 2014 Video on YouTube a b Nature Climate Change August 28 2023 Everglades Wetland Research Park The Wilma H Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park SENR a b Publications Archived from the original on March 26 2009 Retrieved March 6 2009 SER Awards Program ser org dead link Awards and Grants the Society of Wetland Scientists www sws org Archived from the original on June 8 2007 Award for Merit 2015 Ramsar Ramsar Convention 2008 www ramsar org Archived from the original on February 23 2012 UT Celebrated the 91th Anniversary of Estonian Language Education December 2010 William Mitsch on wetland preservation YouTube Archived from the original on December 11 2021 YouTube YouTube dead link Black Swamp Savior How Bringing Back Conquered Wetlands Could Help Solve Harmful Algal Blooms July 31 2018 Restoration of historic Great Black Swamp could help save Lake Erie In Ohio Learning the Importance of Wetlands and the Great Black Swamp March 31 2017 West Virginia Senate rescinds ERA ratification permanent dead link Wetlands Warrior FGCU Pinnacle Magazine Archived from the original on July 21 2015 Retrieved May 29 2016 A Life Bogged Down Archived 2016 06 17 at the Wayback Machine Inman Mason 2010 Working with water Nature Reports Climate Change 1 1004 39 41 doi 10 1038 climate 2010 28 Waist deep in ecological integrity Notre Dame Magazine University of Notre Dame December 10 2008 Book details islandpress com dead link The first edition of Wetlands by Mitsch and Gosselink was published in 1986 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Second third fourth and fifth current editions were published in 1993 2000 2007 and 2015 respectively by John Wiley amp Sons http www wiley com WileyCDA WileyTitle productCd 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