LATEST NEWS

2008

NEW! May 2 Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture 2008: Assessing the Condition of the Wetland Research: Mitigation to National Survey and In-Between (Mary E. Kentula, Ph.D. USEPA)

NEW! April 22, 2008 Pryce Congratulations OSU, Wetland Research Park for International Designation

NEW! April 21, 2008 International recognition for Ohio State’s Wetland

April 1, 2008 ORW 2007 Annual Report Released

ORW supports OSU students for wetland conference

Olentangy River Dam Updates

Celebrate World Wetlands Day at OSU Wetlands, February 2, 2008

NEW! LSU, Ohio State Team Up in Quest to Save Wetlands

2008 SWS International Conference

8th Intecol International Wetlands Conference

 

2007

December 15, 2007 - ORW Advisory Committee Member Honored, Columbus Dispatch

Ramsar Proposal - 2007

2007 Wetlands, 4th Edition, Published

Wetlands 4e

October 4, 2007 - Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture on Restoration of Wetlands in China

September 27, 2007 - ReadAloud 2007 Schedule at ORW

September 2007 - 2006 Annual Report, Published

August 30, 2007 - Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture by University of Florida Wetland Scientist

May 2007 - International Conference of Wetland Restoration and Ecological Engineering in Nanjing,
China (May 28 -June 2 2007)

Wetland Research Park Joins (GWC) International Consortium

2006

December 2006 Rhonda and Paul Sipp 2007 Wetland Research Award Announced

December 2006 Press Release for two published papers on restoring New Orleans: Ecological Engineering "Creating a sustainable and desirable New Orleans" and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment "A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta: Applying ecological economics and ecological engineering"

September 2006 Bald Eagle at the Olentangy River Wetlands

May 2006 Moonlight on the Marsh Distinguished Lecture: The Marshes of Iraq: Past, Present, and Future

April 2006 ORW Featured on Society for Ecological Restoration International Web Site

January 2006 A Special Seminar - The Mississippi River Delta and New Orleans: Post-Katrina humanity and ecology in a time of scarcity

January 2006 Two Ph.D. students received Rhonda and Paul Sipp 2006 Wetland Research Award

2005

September 2005 ORW calls for wetland restoration in post-Katrina Louisiana

September 2005 Mitsch received award for restoration efforts at 2005 World Conference on Ecological Restoration

wetlands photo August 29, 2005 ORWRP study finds that wetlands would help Big Darby Creek (Columbus Dispatch)
marshland in Iraq May 3, 2005 Bringing Eden Back: ORWRP Helps in Effort to Restore Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshlands

August 17, 2005 Successsful Moonlight Marsh Lecture held August 17, 2005 at the ORWRP

June 2005 Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) nesting in the Olentangy River Wetlands

 


2004

December 10, 2004 Heffner Wetland Building wins award!

October 13, 2004 Donation in honor of Wilma H. Schiermeier Provides asting mark at campus wetlands


2004 STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE 

August 19, 2004 King of Sweden Presents Danish, American Wetlands Experts with 2004 Stockholm Water Prize

March 22, 2004 Two Ecologists Receive 2004 Stockholm Water Prize for Outstanding Contributions for the
World's Lakes and Wetlands

 

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY ORWRP

March 3, 2004 OSU Wetland Research Park Going Strong After 10 Years

March 3, 2004 HAPPY 10th Birthday, ORW Wetlands

 

 

2003

September 2003 Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration Book Released

 

IMPORTANT VISITOR TO THE ORWRP

August 4, 2003 OSU President Karen Holbrook Tours Olentangy River Wetland Research Park

OSU President Karen Holbrook tours the wetland

left to right, Gary Mullins, Director, SNR, Elley Perrone, Vice President for Government Relations, Bill Wolfe, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Karen Holbrook, OSU President, Bill Mitsch, Professor and Director, Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, Bill Heffner, Olentangy River Wetland Advisory Committee member, Bill Resch, Olentangy River Wetland Advisory Committee member.

May 13-15, 2003 Wetland "Stars" Come to the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park for Ohio State University Wetlands Invitational

Photo of wetland "stars" touring wetland

left to right, Curt Richardson, Duke University; Rob Brooks, Penn State University; Mark Brown, University of Florida; Bill Mitsch, Ohio State University; John Day, Louisiana State University; Dennis Whigham, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Ed Garbisch, Environmental Concern, Inc.; Siobhan Fennessy, Kenyon

WORLD-CLASS WETLAND RESEARCH BUILDING COMPLETED AT THE ORWRP

March 6, 2003 Heffner Wetland Building Completed at ORWRP

Heffner Wetland Research and Education building

Heffner Wetland Research and Education Building--July 2003

2007-2008
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio State University