Paul Ziemkiewicz
Director, National Mine Land Reclamation Center
Adjunct Professor, Division of Plant & Soil Sciences
National Mine Land Reclamation Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6064
Morgantown, WV 26506-6064
Office Phone: 293-2867 xt. 5441
E-mail: Paul.Ziemkiewicz@mail.wvu.edu
Educational background:
Paul Ziemkiewicz received a B.S. and M.S. from Utah State University in biology (1973) and range ecology (1975) respectively. He then received a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Forest Ecology in 1979. In 1978 he joined the Alberta Government’s Department of Energy.
There he directed its reclamation research program in coal and oil sand mining. He also served on Alberta’s regulatory review committee and served as the research manager of the Province’s coal technology research program.
In 1988, he came to West Virginia University to serve as the director of the National Mine Land Reclamation Center and the West Virginia Water Research Institute. Dr. Ziemkiewicz has over 80 publications on the topic of mine land reclamation, acid mine drainage and coal ash application in mines.