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Accession No. UA.2022.0199: William J. Mitsch, May 2022
[identification of item], William J. Mitsch Oral History Transcript and Compact Disc Recording, RG.40.425, Ohio State University Archives, Ohio State University
Contains a compact disc.
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Finding aid written by: Kevlin Haire, 2022 December
Having grown up in Wheeling, West Virginia, William J. Mitsch originally pursued a career in engineering until he attended an Earth Day event and decided to return to graduate school to earn a doctorate in enivironmental engineering sciences. He was hired by Ohio State's School of Natural Resources in 1986 and several years later decided to create a wetlands park. The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, the first of its kind on a university campus, opened in 1994. In 2012 Mitsch led a successful effort to prevent Columbia Gas from laying a pipeline through the ORWRP. That year Mitsch retired from Ohio State and became Eminent Scholar and Director of the Everglades Wetland Research Park at Florida Gulf Coast University. He retired from that position in 2022.
The William J. Mitsch Oral History Transcript and Compact Disc Recording, dated May 19, 2022, contains a transcript and audio recording on compact disc of an oral history interview of William J. Mitsch. In it, Mitsch discusses his tenure as Professor of Environment and Natural Resources and DIrector of the Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park. He discusses the importance of wetlands in combatting climate change, and the honor of sharing Stockholm Water Prize in 2004 with his friend and mentor Jorgensen Sven Jorgensen of the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
VHS videocassette; color; sound; approximate runtime: unknown