Donald L. Hey, Ph.D.

Co-Founder/Director

Donald L. Hey is co-founder of The Wetlands Initiative, Inc, and serves on its board of directors. He also is executive director of Wetlands Research, Inc., which manages the Des Plaines River Wetlands Demonstration Project in Lake County, Illinois, one of the nation's first large-scale wetland restoration projects. He formerly was president of Hey & Associates, an environmental services consulting firm.

He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, an M.S. in water resources engineering from Kansas University, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Northwestern University. His research interests focus on the restoration of river and wetland systems and the development of low-cost management programs for sustaining natural aquatic ecosystems.

Dr. Hey has served on a number of committees and editorial boards: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Committee of Integrated Nitrogen (2007-2009); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Assessment Plan; Technical Proposal Evaluation Committee, Everglades National Park, National Park Service; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board; the International Joint Commission, Levels Reference Study; the National Research Council, Committee on the Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems; the Illinois Department of Conservation, Wetland Advisory Council; Ecological Engineering and Restoration Ecology. He is co-author of A Case for Wetland Restoration (Wiley & Sons, 1999) and numerous articles.

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