Anne van Dam joined IHE Delft in January 2003, when he started working as a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Ecological Modelling. He was appointed Associate Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis in 2008. His main research interests during the past years have been sustainable use of wetlands and modelling of fish production and nutrient flows in wetland ecosystems.
He is especially interested in the use of models to study ecosystem functions and services and develop sustainable production systems, and to evaluate ecological, social and economic indicators of sustainability. At IHE Delft, he has been working with partners and students in international projects on wetland management and integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems. He was a co-editor of the Wetlands Book (published by Springer in 2018) and was also involved in the work of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. He was one of the lead authors of the Global Wetland Outlook published by the Ramsar Convention in 2018. Anne obtained an MSc degree from Wageningen University in 1986, specializing in aquaculture and fisheries. From 1987 to 1992 he worked for ICLARM (presently the World Fish Center) in the Philippines and in Malawi, Africa in research projects on integrated crop-fish farming. In 1995, he completed his PhD-thesis on a model for growth of Nile tilapia in integrated fishponds. From 1995 to 1999 he was coordinator and fisheries adviser for a university collaboration project in Costa Rica. From 1999 to 2002, he was a researcher in the Aquaulture and Fisheries Group of Wageningen University, involved in research projects on integrated fish production systems and periphyton.
Areas of interest: wetland ecology, wetland restoration and management, environmental modelling, ecosystem services, aquaculture
Publications
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