During the course of this project, many individuals other than committee members and those acknowledged in the preface contributed their time to the development of the study and this report. These individuals assisted in planning the study that led to the report, developing recommendations for improving the value of education in limnology for water resources management jobs, writing about limnology programs in their universities, and developing written material for the report. We acknowledge the possibility of overlooking some individual from this list of contributors and apologize if this occurred.
Participants in planning meeting that led to this project:
Judy Meyer, University of Georgia, Chair
Jill Baron, Colorado State University
Ken Bencala, U.S. Geological Survey
Nick Clesceri, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Christopher D'Elia, University of Maryland
Penelope Firth, National Science Foundation
Stuart Fisher, Arizona State University
William Lewis, University of Colorado
John Magnuson, University of Wisconsin
Donald Nielsen, University of California, Davis
Ann Spacie, Purdue University
Richard Sparks, Illinois Natural History Survey
Robert Wetzel, University of Alabama
Attendees at the workshop on perspectives on limnological education from water managers:
Jeff Bode, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wayne Cheyney, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Richard DiBuono, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
David Dilks, Limno-Tech, Inc.
James Erckman, Seattle Water Department
Tom Fontaine, South Florida Water Management District
Wayne Poppe, Tennessee Valley Authority
Don Porcella, Electric Power Research Institute
Dan Tadgerson, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
William Taft, Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Contributors of text boxes and other material in Chapters 2, 3, and 4:
Arthur Brooks, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Dennis Cooke, Kent State University
Stuart Fisher, Arizona State University
Ralph Fuhrman, civil and environmental engineer, Washington, D.C.
Charles Hawkins, Utah State University
Dieter Imboden, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Library staff of the J. W. Jones Ecological Research Center
William Lewis, University of Colorado
Gene Likens, Cary Arboretum
Bill Mitsch, Ohio State University
Earl Spangenberg, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Heinz Stefan, University of Minnesota
Jack Vallentyne, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
We also thank the individuals at the 69 universities who responded to our questionnaire and provided the information found in Appendix A and the staff of limnological societies and journals for providing the information on membership and publication statistics found in Appendix B.