State of Lake Michigan

Dr. Thomas Edsall is a retired senior limnologist at the National Fisheries Research Center – Great Lakes, US Fish and Wildlife Service (US Geological Survey) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has contributed significantly to the limnology and fisheries of the Great Lakes over his 40 year career. He was a member of several advisory committees, especially the Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels Study Management Committee. The Study resulted in the publication of a comprehensive monograph in Hydrobiologia’s Developments in Hydrobiology Series (Munawar & Edsall, 1991). He has several publications about various ecological topics in the Great Lakes with emphasis on the Burrowing Mayfly (Hexagenia). Dr. Edsall is a long term supporter of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society and its publications. Under the Ecovision World Monograph Series he has co-edited the State of Lake Erie (Munawar et al., 1999) and the State of Lake Michigan (Edsall & Munawar, 2005). He continues to serve as a senior advisor of the journal, Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management.

Dr. Mohiuddin Munawar received a Ph.D. is a research scientist at Great Lakes Laboratory for Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries & Oceans Canada. He has been actively involved in Great Lakes research for more than 30 years. Dr. Munawar has published more than 250 papers and given over 350 presentations at international conferences dealing with phycology, ecology, food-web dynamics, ecotoxicology, and ecosystem health. He has delivered several keynote, plenary and invited presentations. He has convened and chaired numerous international symposia, conferences and ecoforums. He has published two books on the Phytoplankton dynamics of the North American Great Lakes.

Dr. Munawar is the founder-president of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management Society-AEHMS and chief editor of its journal Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management-AEHM (published by Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia). He has edited more than 30 special issues of the AEHM on various current issues and themes.

Due to the need for holistic environmental books dealing with the "total ecosystem", the Ecovision World Monograph Series was initiated by Dr. Munawar. The series has already published more than 20 peer-reviewed books of global interest edited by him and other well known scientists.

Dr. Munawar has received several awards and distinctions such as the Chandler-Misner Award for best scientific paper, Canadian Public Service Commission Award, the prestigious Anderson-Everett Award for life time contribution to Great Lakes Science (by IAGLR), an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Faculty of Science, Goteborg University, Sweden, and recently has been conferred the Fellowship of the Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology (ASET), from India. In 2008, Dr. Munawar was also awarded the Assistant Deputy Minister’s Distinction Award by the Department of Fisheries & Oceans in recognition of his excellence, leadership and scientific contributions.