2010
Xiaoping Yang
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
“Wetland changes in drylands of China since the late Quaternary”
October 21, 2010
Robert Twilley
University of Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
“Landscapes on the Edge: The Mississippi River Delta Restoration as
Science and Policy Issues of Earth Surface Processes”
October 6, 2010
Christopher Craft
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Bloomington, Indiana
"Tidal Wetlands and Climate Change"
May 12, 2010
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2009
Charles A.S. Hall
State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York
"Peak Oil, Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and Your Financial Future"
March 30, 2009
Ülo Mander
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia,
"The Ecosystem Services of Boreal Peatlands"
January 29, 2009
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2008
Royal C. Gardner
Stetson University College of Law
Gulfport, Florida,
"Wetlands in a Global Context: The Ramsar Convention"
September 25, 2008
Mary E. Kentula
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Corvallis, Oregon
“Assessing the Condition of the Wetland Resource: Mitigation to National Survey and In-Between”
May 2, 2008
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2007
JianJian Lu
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China
“Ecological Restoration of Wetlands in China”
October 4, 2007
K. Ramesh Reddy
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
“Phosphorus Memory in Wetlands and Aquatic Systems: Implications to Ecosystem Restoration”
August 30, 2007
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2006
Azzam Alwash
Director, Eden Again
Baghdad, Iraq
“The Marshes of Iraq, Past, Present, and Future”
May 11, 2006
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2005
Ralph W. Tiner
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Leverett, Massachusetts
“The Isolated Wetlands Connection”
August 17, 2005
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2004
Margaret Greenway
Griffith University
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
“Marshes and Mosquitos- Minimizing the Potential Problem in Constructed Wetlands in Australia”
July 12, 2004
John M. Teal
Teal Ltd. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Rochester, Massachusetts
“Large-Scale Successful Salt Marsh Restoration in Delaware Bay”
May 13, 2004
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2003
Wolfgang Junk
Max Planck Institute
Ploean, Germany and Manaus, Brazil
“Amazonian Wetlands: Classification, Distribution, Sustainable Management, and Threats”
May 16, 2003
Thomas Crisman
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
“How Little Water Does a Wetland Need to Function? The Reality of Transboundary Conflicts and
Water Scarcity in the Meditarranean Basin, Middle East and Africa”
May 16, 2003
Mark T. Brown
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
“Landscape Restoration: Insights and Design Principles Gained from 25 Years of Co-Evolution of
Science, Industry, and Regulation Related to Florida’s Phosphate Mining”
May 16, 2003
James Amon
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
“For Peat’s Sake – Restore the Wetlands”
May 16, 2003
Robert P. Brooks
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
“Are We Purveyors of Wetland Homogeneity? A Model of Degradation and
Restoration to Improve Mitigation Performance”
May 16, 2003
Curtis Richardson
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
“Successful Everglades Restoration is Not a River of Grass”
May 16, 2003
Edgar W. Garbisch
Environmental Concern, Inc.
St. Michaels, Maryland
“Coastal Wetland Creation at Hambleton Island, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, In 1971 and Years Later”
May 15, 2003
M. Siobhan Fennessy
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio
“Planning Wetland Restoration at the Watershed Scale: Lessons from the Cuyahoga River Basin, Ohio”
May 15, 2003
Donald Hey
The Wetlands Initiative
Chicago, Illinois
“Financing Wetland Restoration”
May 15, 2003
Dennis Whigham
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Edgewater, Maryland
“Slowing the Rate of Degradation in the Chesapeake Bay through Wetland Restoration”
May 15, 2003
William J. Mitsch
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
“Restoring the Mississippi River Basin with 10 Million Hectares of Wet Lands”
May 15, 2003
John W. Day, Jr.
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
“Restoration of the Mississippi Delta”
May 15, 2003
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2002
Edwin E. Herricks
University of Illinois
Urbana – Champaign, Illinois
“River Restoration – Another Oxymoron or a Real Hope for Watershed Management”
August 12, 2002
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2001
Major General Hans A. Van Winkle
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Washington, D.C.
“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Wetland Protection and Restoration”
November 9, 2001
Roy R. “Robin” Lewis III
Lewis Environmental Services
Ruskin, Florida
“So Why are Shrimp so Cheap These Days?
Mangrove Destruction and Restoration in Southeast Asia”
August 6, 2001
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2000
Sven Erik Jørgensen
Royal Danish School of Pharmacy
Copenhagen, Denmark
“The State of the Art of Applying Ecological Models to Ecotechnology”
July 5, 2000
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1995
Howard T. Odum
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
“The Prosperous Way Down”
August 31, 1995
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