学术报告：

   报告人：William J. Mitsch,俄亥俄州立大学教授、湿地中心主任    报告时间：2010年7月12日下午2:30    报告地点：重点实验室学术报告厅（农水楼四楼）

BiographyWilliam J. Mitsch, Ph.D.

William J. Mitsch is Distinguished Professor of Environment, Natural Resources, and Ecological Engineering and Director of the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

He received his B.S. in engineering at University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. in systems ecology at University of Florida and also taught at Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Louisville. His research and teaching has focused on wetland ecology and biogeochemistry, wetland creation and restoration, ecological engineering and ecosystem restoration, and ecosystem modeling.   Dr. Mitsch has authored or co-authored over 300 papers, books, and other publications and has edited or co-authored 16 books including 4 editions of Wetlands and two versions of Ecological Engineering.

He is editor-in-chief of the journal Ecological Engineering, which he started in 1992. He has collaborated in research and teaching and visited many times with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) an Chinese University since 1987 in Nanjing, Beijing, Wuhan, Chongqing, and Shanghai among other locations. He has also collaborated with research teams in Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, France, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, Botswana, Costa Rica, and Brazil.

His awards include U.S. EPA National Award for Wetland Research (1996), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1997), Distinguished Scholar Award at The Ohio State University (1998), the Theodore M. Sperry Career Award from the Society of Ecological Restoration International (2005), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Wetland Scientists (2007). In August 2004 he was awarded, along with his Denmark friend Sven Erk Jørgensen, the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for lifetime achievements in the modeling, management, and conservation of lakes and wetlands.

His Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at The Ohio State University was declared the USA’s 24th Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in 2008, 15 years after it was created.