Wetland Science

The specialization in Wetland Science addresses the keen awareness among the Environmental community that wetlands represent a critical and understudied component of many larger ecosystems. Hydrophytic vegetation, hydric soils and wetland hydrology all contribute to make wetlands the significant and highly complex ecosystems that they are.

In addition to the more obvious recreational and aesthetic contributions of wetlands, they provide fish and wildlife habitat, protect and enhance water quality through biogeochemical processes, increase flood protection through flood water storage mechanisms, and afford protection against shoreline erosion. Wetlands have rapidly gained public attention over the last two decades as they have been brought into the limelight by state and federal regulations and through the attention given such large scale environmental issues as hurricane Katrina.

Wetland Science Faculty

	Lowell Adams, Adjunct Associate Professor Wildlife Ecology, Urban Wildlife, Urban Ecosystems ladams4@umd.edu
	Andrew Baldwin, Associate Professor Plant Ecology of Natural, Restored, and Treatment Wetlands, Ecological Engineering baldwin@umd.edu
	Reginal M. Harrell, Professor Environmental and Biological Ethics, Physiological Genetics, Stress in Animals, Aquaculture and Phytoremediation, Restoration Ecology rharrell@umd.edu
	Pat Kangas, Associate Professor Ecological Design, Ecological Engineering, Tropical Ecology and Sustainability pkangas@umd.edu
	Bahram Momen, Associate Professor Ecosystem Ecology, BioStatistics bmomen@umd.edu
	Brian Needelman, Associate Professor Soil Science (Pedology), Water Quality, Carbon Sequestration bneed@umd.edu
	Martin Rabenhorst, Professor Pedology, Soils of Wetland Ecosystems, Subaqueous Soils mrabenho@umd.edu
	David Tilley, Associate Professor Ecological Engineering, Wetland Health Assessment, Energy-based Environmental Accounting dtilley@umd.edu

For more information, contact Graduate Studies Coordinator

Last updated: 08/28/2009

J.Brundage

ENST graduate student, Jennifer Brundage, examines the effectiveness of grazing by goats to control common reed, an invasive wetland grass known as Phragmites australis. Learn more>>