LATEST NEWS

2009

NEW! Rhonda and Paul Sipp 2009 Wetland Research Awards Announced (June 17, 2009)

NEW! Center for Water and Ecosystem Services Proposed at Ohio State University (May 20, 2009)

Earth Day Events at the OSU Wetlands (April 22- Wednesday and April 25 - Saturday, 2009)

2009 Rhonda and Paul Sipp Wetland Research Award Competition for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture, March 30, 2009
"Peak Oil, Energy Return On Investment (EROI) and Your Financial Future"- Charles A.S. Hall, Professor of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Syacuse, New York

Center for Water and Ecosystem Services proposal(PDF) is finalist for major OSU support (March 9, 2009)

Wetlands important in climate change - from OTS web (February 10, 2009)

OSU President Gordon Gee and others visit the ORW open house (February 2, 2009, WORLD WETLANDS DAY)
Press Release (January 17, 2009))
Open House Poster (PDF)
President Gee visit and other pictures at ORW Open House

Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture, January 29, 2009
"The Ecosystem Services of Boreal Peatlands"- Ulo Mander, Professor of of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

2008

Olentangy River Wetland Research Park on the Big Ten Network (November 20, 2008)

Ramsar Secretary General Anada Tiéga receives a copy of textbook "Wetlands" from Bill Mitsch (November 1, 2008)

ORW featured in Korean TV wetland documentary ( October 30, 2008)

Three Gorges Dam Area Farmers Should Avoid Fertilizer (Update1) (Bloomberg News story, October 28, 2008)

Flooding may offset Three Gorges Dam impact on environment, expert says (National Geographic, October 24, 2008)

Wetlands expert: China should think outside the flooding box with Three Gorges Dam (OSU Research News, October. 24, 2008)

10 web sites carry "OSU Wetland Expert in Three Gorges Trip" (October 24, 2008)

Optimizing Ecosystem Services in China (Science 322: 528, October 24, 2008)

32 web sites carry "gas emission from wetlands"story (Google Search, October 24, 2008)

39 web sites carry "Tropical wetlands hold more carbon than temperate marshes" (October 8-14, 2008)

Tropical wetlands hold more carbon than temperate marshes (EnvironmentalResearchWeb, October 8, 2008)

Study: Tropical wetlands hold more carbon than temperate marshes (OSU Research News, October 8, 2008)

Swampfest in Ohio celebrates USA’s 24th Ramsar wetland (ORW Press Release, October 1, 2008)

Some Marshes Pass Too Much Gas (Yahoo News, September 24, 2008)

Some Marshes Pass Too Much Gas (LiveSciences, September 24, 2008)

Flooding might help lower gas emssion from wetlands (OSU Research News, September 23, 2008)

New Orleans dodged Hurricane Gustav bullet, but OSU expert continues to urge: "Let the water decide." (OSU News and Information, September 3, 2008)

Editorial: Short takes (Columbus Dispatch, July 12, 2008)

Olentangy Wetland First in Ohio to be 'Wetland of International Importance’ (OSU CFAES Press Release, July 7, 2008)

ORW Scientists and Board Members Visit Ecological Restoration Area in Kaixian, Upstream of Three Gorges Dam (KaiZhou Newspaper in Chinese, June 26, 2008)

Ramsar Convention officially recognizes ORW as USA's 24th Ramsar Site (Ramsar News, June 20, 2008)

Halting Hypoxia - Civil Engineering Magazine discusses ORW research (June, 2008)

Olentangy River Wetlands has major presence at national meeting in Washington DC (May 30, 2008)

Undergraduate researchers at The Ohio State University predict the impact of the 5th Avenue Dam
removal at 2008 Denman Forum on campus
(May 13, 2008)

Olentangy River Wetland Research Park wins local environmental award (May 12, 2008)

Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture 2008: "Assessing the Condition of the Wetland Research" by Mary E. Kentula, USEPA, Corvallis, OR) (May 2, 2008)

Pryce Congratulations OSU, Wetland Research Park for International Designation (April 22, 2008)

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service gives international recognition to Ohio State’s wetland (April 21, 2008)

ORW 2007 Annual Report Released (April 1, 2008)

ORW supports OSU students for wetland conference (February 26, 2008)

Olentangy River Dam Removal Updates

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

LSU and Ohio State Team Up in Quest to Save Wetlands

8th Intecol International Wetlands Conference

 

2007

ORW Advisory Committee Member Honored, Columbus Dispatch ( December 15, 2007)

Ramsar Proposal (October 2007)

2007 Wetlands, 4th Edition, Published (August 2007)

Wetlands 4e

Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture "Restoration of Wetlands in China" by Jianjian Lu (October 4, 2007)

ReadAloud 2007 Schedule at ORW (September 27, 2007)

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