Coveted prize given for Wetlands Research.Professor William William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack J. Mitsch, who is the director of the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park is an experimental wetland complex located adjacent to the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. and teaches at Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. in Columbus, will share the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize for Lakes and Wetlands Research with Danish professor, Sven Erik Jorgensen. Their theoretical and applied work on lake and wetland ecosystems, management of lake and wetland water quality, and lake, river and wetland conservation, restoration and usage has been acknowledged and implemented in both developing and developed countries. They will share the $150,000 prize. Mitsch received the acknowledgement because of his work in establishing the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, which focused on the ecological ecological emanating from or pertaining to ecology. ecological biome see biome. ecological climax the state of balance in an ecosystem when its inhabitants have established their permanent relationships with each restoration of the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri Basin. Mitsch has also taken the lead on debates stemming from coastal pollution of the northern Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east . Jorgensen is responsible for a project in Tanzania that has helped prove the necessity of artificial wetlands in wastewater treatment processes. |
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