Congratulations to Professor Emeritus William J. Mitsch, who will be presented a Ramsar Convention Award of Merit for 2015 at the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP12), which will be held June 1-9, 2015, in Punta del Este, Uruguay. This award is one of six announced by the Ramsar Convention which meets as a convention only once every 3 years. This is the only award presented to a North American this year.