WSU geology faculty member contributes to regional environmental atlas

WSU Geoscientist John Zawiskie was a major contributor to a recently published biodiversity atlas of the Great Lakes watersheds in SE Michigan and SW Ontario.

"Explore Our Natural World: A Biodiversity Atlas of the Lake Huron to Lake Erie Corridor" was developed over a three and a half year period by the Great Lakes Regional Office of the Wildlife Habitat Council, a nonprofit organization that restores habitat on private and public land.

The project was funded through a grant from the USEPA, and supported by numerous private foundations and donors. Zawiskie, a geologist at the Cranbrook Institute of Science and part-time faculty member in the WSU Geology Department, authored sections on the physical landscape and geology.

The atlas is generously illustrated with maps, photographs, and diagrams depicting the landscape, waterscape, flora, and fauna of the region. The atlas also devotes considerable attention to human influence on the area's ecosystems.