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Michael P. Weinstein
Michael P. Weinstein is Director of the PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies (ISS) at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. He is the former president and CEO of the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium where he also served as the Director of the New Jersey Sea Grant College Program. Weinstein’s research is in the areas of coastal ecology, sustainability science, fisheries science, wetland ecology, and restoration ecology (primarily in salt marshes, sea grass meadows, and mangrove habitats). The recipient of many awards, he has served on numerous National Research Council committees, an International Working Group on Sustainability, a working group of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the United States-Japan Coastal Environmental Science and Technology Panel, the Singapore-Delft Water Alliance Audit Panel, and the United States-China Initiative in Sustainable Development. Weinstein is also a member of the National Working Group charged with responsibility for preparing the Nationwide Strategy for Coastal Habitat Restoration and has authored more than 200 journal articles, abstracts, books, chapters, and monographs. His most recent text, Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology(edited with Daniel Kreeger, 2000) ,has had international impact on the direction of tidal marsh research and restoration science. He can be contacted at email: [email protected].