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  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William J. Mitsch was affiliated with Florida Gulf Coast University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with significant contributions in related subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, ecology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and environmental engineering.

Their work covered a range of topics including constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, urban stormwater management solutions, phosphorus and nutrient management, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

They published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030-What Chance for Success in Restoring Coastal Ecosystems?, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A review of technologies for closing the P loop in agriculture runoff: Contributing to the transition towards a circular economy, 2022, Ecological Engineering
  • Nutrient retention via sedimentation in a created urban stormwater treatment wetland, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Constructed wetlands to solve agricultural drainage pollution in South Florida: Development of an advanced simulation tool for design optimization, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Eutrophication effects on CH4 and CO2 fluxes in a highly urbanized tropical reservoir (Southeast, Brazil), 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Mitsch frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Li Zhang, Lauren N. Griffiths, John W. Day, Joan García, and Bingbing Jiang. Their frequent publication venues comprised Ecological Engineering, Plants, Frontiers in Marine Science, The Science of The Total Environment, and Journal of Cleaner Production.

Their contributions to the field of environmental science spanned over numerous publications, focusing particularly on solutions and technologies related to constructed wetlands, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem restoration. Mitsch was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • The value of wetlands: importance of scale and landscape setting.

    William J. Mitsch;James G. Gosselink

  • Wetlands, carbon, and climate change

    William J. Mitsch;William J. Mitsch;Blanca Bernal;Amanda M. Nahlik;Amanda M. Nahlik;Ülo Mander

  • Reducing Nitrogen Loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin: Strategies to Counter a Persistent Ecological Problem

    William J. Mitsch;John W. Day;J. Wendell Gilliam;Peter M. Groffman

  • Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

    John W. Day;Donald F. Boesch;Ellis J. Clairain;G. Paul Kemp

  • Current state of knowledge regarding the world’s wetlands and their future under global climate change: a synthesis

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Shuqing An;C. M. Finlayson;Brij Gopal

  • Improving the Success of Wetland Creation and Restoration with Know-How, Time, and Self-Design

    William J. Mitsch;Renee F. Wilson

  • Wetlands. 2nd ed.

    W J Mitsch;J G Gosselink

  • Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration

    William J. Mitsch;S. E. Jørgensen

  • Global wetlands: old world and new

    William J. Mitsch

  • The effects of season and hydrologic and chemical loading on nitrate retention in constructed wetlands: a comparison of low- and high-nutrient riverine systems

    Douglas J. Spieles;William J. Mitsch

  • Ecosystem services of wetlands

    William J. Mitsch;Blanca Bernal;Maria E. Hernandez

  • Ecological engineering: a field whose time has come

    William J. Mitsch;Sven E. Jørgensen

  • Ecological engineering : an introduction to ecotechnology

    William J. Mitsch;S. E. Jørgensen

  • Creating and Restoring Wetlands A whole-ecosystem experiment in self-design

    William J. Mitsch;Xinyuan Wu;Robert W. Nairn;Paul E. Weihe

  • What is ecological engineering

    William J. Mitsch

  • The carbon sequestration potential of terrestrial ecosystems

    Rattan Lal;Pete Smith;Hermann F. Jungkunst;William J. Mitsch

  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 - what chance for success in restoring coastal ecosystems?

    Nathan J. Waltham;Michael Elliott;Shing Yip Lee;Catherine Lovelock

  • Restoration of wetlands in the Mississippi–Ohio–Missouri (MOM) River Basin: Experience and needed research

    William J. Mitsch;John W. Day

  • Nitrate-nitrogen retention in wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin

    William J. Mitsch;John W. Day;Li Zhang;Robert R. Lane

  • Creating riverine wetlands: Ecological succession, nutrient retention, and pulsing effects

    William J. Mitsch;Li Zhang;Christopher J. Anderson;Anne E. Altor

  • Ecosystem Dynamics and a Phosphorus Budget of an Alluvial Cypress Swamp in Southern Illinois

    William J. Mitsch;Carol L. Dorage;John R. Wiemhoff

  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment: Municipal, Industrial, and Agricultural

    William J. Mitsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Ülo Mander
Ülo Mander University of Tartu
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Sven Erik Jørgensen
Sven Erik Jørgensen University of Copenhagen
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University
Charles A. Simenstad
Charles A. Simenstad University of Washington
Jos T. A. Verhoeven
Jos T. A. Verhoeven Utrecht University
Robert R. Lane
Robert R. Lane Louisiana State University
Bhavik R. Bakshi
Bhavik R. Bakshi The Ohio State University
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge University of Orléans

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