[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 100 (Friday, June 15, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              BILL MITSCH

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                          HON. FRANCIS ROONEY

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 15, 2018

  Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to 
congratulate Bill Mitsch for having received the first Odum Award for 
Ecological Engineering Excellence from the American Ecological 
Engineering Society in Houston, Texas.
  As Director of the Everglades Wetland Research Park at Florida Gulf 
Coast University, he has become a highly respected scientist in the 
fields of wetland ecology, biogeochemistry, ecological engineering, and 
ecosystem restoration and modelling.
  He has taught and inspired generations of scientists to pursue 
wetlands research through his extensive research on the subject, 
including writing five editions of a preeminent standard textbook about 
wetland ecology. Further, he founded the Olentangy River Wetland 
Research Park, a major research wetlands laboratory at Ohio State 
University, and has served on the Science Advisory Board of the 
Environmental Protection Agency to provide his valuable input on 
wetland restoration.
  I personally would like to thank Bill for his dedicated efforts and 
research on the Everglades.

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