Presentation topic : Wetland Restoration Practices: my lessons learned
Time: Tuesday, 13th March 9:30-11:00am
Place: room 610 in School of Environment
Kevin Erwin is an internationally recognized, Ecological Society of America certified senior ecologist (1985), specializing in large-scale wetland restoration, biodiversity conservation, and watershed evaluation. His first wetland restoration project was in 1974 and since then he has evaluated, designed, managed, constructed and monitored hundreds of projects around the world. Since 1980 he has served as the President and Principal Ecologist of Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologist, Inc. and is also a Faculty Member of Florida Gulf Coast University in the Department of Marine & Ecological Sciences. He has served a variety of appointed positions, recently as a member of the Ramsar Scientific & Technical Review Panel, was a member of Wetland International’s Supervisory Council (2000-11). He has served as the Coordinator of Wetlands International’s Wetland Restoration Specialist Group since 1992 and in 2014 was elected to the Wetlands International Board of Members. In 2013 he was named as a Master of Ecological Restoration to the DeTao Masters Academy in The People’s Republic of China. Kevin Erwin has organized numerous international symposia on wetland restoration and climate change mitigation and adaptation, including the 2012 and 2016 INTECOL meetings. In December 2017 he gave the plenary presentation at the Symposium on Wetland Protected Area Systems in Haikou, Hainan, China |