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Dr. Andrew H Baldwin
Associate Professor & Director
Environmental Science and Technology Program
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Programs
Environmental Science & Technology
Andrew Baldwin is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science & Technology. He joined the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor in 1996, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. He served as Acting Chair of the Department of Biological Resources Engineering (ENBE) from July 1, 2005 until June 30, 2006, during which time he was instrumental in the transformation of ENBE into the Department of Environmental Science and Technology. He then served as Associate Chair of the ENST department for six months to help during the initial transition. In addition to a Ph.D. in Botany from Louisiana State University (1996), he holds two B.S. degrees, one in biology and one in engineering, from Tufts University, Medford, MA (1983). Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, he worked for eight years in the environmental consulting field, first as an environmental engineer and then as an applied ecologist.
Dr. Baldwin teaches courses in wetland ecology and water quality, supervises graduate students conducting ecological engineering and wetland ecology research, and advises undergraduate students. His main research interests are in wetland plant ecology and ecological engineering. Specifically, he works in natural, restored, and treatment wetlands studying aspects such as disturbance and regeneration ecology of wetland vegetation, wetland seed banks, and nutrient and sediment dynamics in wetland ecosystems. Recent projects have included the study of seed dispersal, seed banks, and vegetation and soil development in restored tidal freshwater marshes along the Anacostia River in Washington, DC, wetland plant biodiversity along estuarine gradients in the Chesapeake Bay, hurricane damage and regeneration in south Florida mangrove forests, and studies of effects of sediment and nutrient loading on plant diversity of tidal freshwater marshes and swamps on the Nanticoke River on Maryland's eastern shore. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals or books and supported his research with $1.5 M in research funding.
Currently Andrew Baldwin serves on the Board of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) as chair of the SWS Awards Committee and President of the SWS Mid-Atlantic Chapter. Previously he served for three years as Associate Editor of the journal Wetlands.
Learn more about Dr. Baldwin at http://www.enst.umd.edu/baldwin.htm