Dr. John Day is a distinguished Emeritus Professor with the College of the Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University, where he has taught since 1971. Dr. Day is an internationally recognized expert on the ecology, management and restoration of coastal and wetland ecosystems with over 40 years of experience. He has studied coastal systems in many areas of the world, including Latin America, the Netherlands and several deltas and coastal lagoons in France, Spain, and Italy. Dr. Day has been a visiting scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National University of Mexico, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the Laboratoire d'Ecologie in Arles France, and at the Department of Geography at Cambridge University. He has also worked with the University of Campeche and the Institute of Ecology in Xalapa, Mexico. He has served as major professor for 68 graduate students at LSU and has authored over 400 scientific papers and books on coastal ecology and management.